Science, Knowledge, and Technology Workshop (SKAT)

Workshop | ongoing

The Trust Collaboratory hosts the Science, Knowledge, and Technology workshop (SKAT) that gathers social scientists interested in how knowledge is created, distributed, drawn upon, and collectively understood. The workshop brings together diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches to the social studies of SKAT. These include sociology of expertise, sociology of professions, organizational analysis, actor-network theory, medical sociology, and science studies, among other approaches. The workshop is primarily designed to assist advanced graduate students with their ongoing research projects. The workshop aims to expose participants to original approaches to social studies of science and technology and expose students to solutions to common challenges of academic work. We aim to provide a supportive environment offering feedback and advice on all aspects of academic work, from devising and conducting research to producing written texts (grant applications, dissertation proposals, and publications).

Coordinators: Elizaveta Sheremet & Yanze Yu

Workshop Schedule 2025-26

  • Warm Hands Entangled in Cold Technology? Psychologists’ Tinkering Expertise in Digital Psychiatry
    Zoom | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Authoritative Abstractions
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Inside Data Science: Hackers and the Making of a New Profession (Book Talk)
    Knox Hall 509 | 12:30-02:00 PM

  • Experts in exile: How populist mistrust empowers “knowledge brokers” at the margins of health governance
    Knox Hall 501D | 13:00-02:00 PM

  • The Inscription of Expertise: Constructing the Credibility of Uncredentialed Medical Image Annotators in China’s AI Industry
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Managing Corporate Virtue: The Politics of Workplace Diversity in New York and Paris (Book Talk)
    Knox Hall 509 | 12:30-02:00 PM

  • TBD
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • I Re-Member Me": Crafting Authentic Self-Narration in Memoirs
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • No Negative Reviews: Unveiling Patients’ Excessively Positive Evaluation and Contextualized Utilization of Online Medical Platforms in China
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Give Me a Patch and I Will Create a Market
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM

  • Facts and Facticity as Cultural Entities
    Knox Hall 501D | 01:00-02:00 PM