Dear all,
Just a reminder about tomorrow's seminar.
Our next seminar will be held on Wednesday 25th January. We are very pleased to have Clifford Stott (Department of Applied Psychology, University of Liverpool) to present and discuss his research into ethics, science and the media. Details of the seminar are below.
All welcome. If you'd like to join the email list then please contact Simon Lock.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Professor Martin Bauer, Dr Simon Lock, Dr Jane Gregory
Date, Time and Location:
Wednesday 25th January 2012
16.15-18:00
Venue: St Clement's, S314, LSE
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.htm
Speaker: Clifford Stott, Department of Applied Psychology, University of Liverpool
Details: Perhaps the most famous social psychology experiment of the 20th century was Milgram's obedience paradigm where participants were led to believe they were giving fatal electric shocks to another person. The paradigm was developed in order to try to understand the psychological processes that led to the Nazi genocide and is celebrated by Social Psychology because of the social relevance of this important question.
At the same time it is also the case that Milgram is vilified for what is portrayed as an unacceptable breech of ethical standards. The controversy surrounding his methods led directly to the emergence of anethical framework that precluded further research along these lines. What remains is a social psychology unable to address some of the discipline’s most important questions through fear of placing participants in situations of temporary stress. Yet in recent years the Milgram paradigm has been recreated for television.
In this presentation there will be a discussion of the processes behind a 'replication' of the paradigm for the BBC's Horizon programme. Dr. Stott will describe how the institutions of research and media handled the ‘ethical responsibilities’ and ‘protected’ the psychological wellbeing of participants. In so doing he attempts to expose the contradictions whereby the paradigm can be recreated for journalistic purposes but not for scientific research.
Future seminars - 2011/12 Session:
29th February - Oliver Escobar (Edinburgh University) on public engagement
30th May - Felicity Mellor, on the BBC science coverage review
About the Seminar Series
The London PUS seminar is an interdisciplinary intercollegiate seminar concerned with the broad range of topics that fall under the headings of public understanding of science, public engagement with science, science communication, and science-in-society. It has been run jointly between LSE and UCL since 1993 and is open to all. Our participants predominantly come from a wide range of academic disciplines, and the science policy and science communication/public engagement communities. It is currently supported by the Public Understanding of Science journal published by SAGE and the Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL.
Dr Simon J Lock
Teaching Fellow in STS
Global Citizenship Study Abroad Programme Co-ordinator
Department of Science and Technology Studies
UCL
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London
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STS Goes Global! Study Abroad Year in Global Citizenship at UCL:
www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/global-citizen
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