Unravelling Knowledge Imperialism: Using Fiction to Re-Imagine Research Com

Unravelling Knowledge Imperialism: Using Fiction to Re-Imagine Research Com

Using Fiction to Re-Imagine Research Communication - A practice-based approach to knowledge through the craft of fiction

By BU Centre for Science, Health & Data Comm Research

Date and time

Wednesday, May 7 · 6 - 7am PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour

Our current research model is foundationally imperialistic: there are knowable truths to the universe, and the scientific method will help reveal them. Yet some knowledge has no singular truth, no clear-cut data to report and interpret (and even that which trades exclusively in quantitative measures is obscured by noise, software, error, and interpretation).


This talk explores a practice-based approach to knowledge through the craft of fiction. The presentation will centre on the author’s current creative work, a fictional account of a super-massive scientific experiment that embraces “knowing” through narrative.


BIO:

Dr. Lyle Skains (she/her) is an award-winning researcher and creative practitioner in Creative Digital Writing and Science Communication at Bournemouth University. She conducts practice-based research into writing, reading/playing, publishing digital and transmedia narratives, and how these can be used for health and science communication

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BU Centre for Science, Health & Data Comm Research

The Centre for Science, Health, and Data Communications Research focuses on the urgent need for better science, health and data communication through ambitious cross-disciplinary collaborations. From reporting statistics, to tackling disinformation, from health and wellness interventions to more efficient communication around environmental and humanitarian disasters, our members respond to real world issues—often in real time.