Words from the WISE: investigating women in science, 1830-2012

“智者的话：“1830-2012年科学界妇女”是一个研究网络，旨在激发对当今科学界妇女地位的跨学科（学术和非学术）辩论。虽然WISE通常指的是科学和工程领域的妇女，但在本项目中，我们还包括技术和数学（与科学和工程一起构成STEM学科）和医学。该网络将由30名左右的参与者组成，他们可以带来广泛的知识，无论是对女性如何首次闯入男性科学飞地感兴趣的学术历史学家，还是关注女性科学家在各级代表性方面还有很长的路要走的社会学家和决策者。其目的是产生新的想法，将对女科学家的科学经验的历史理解，特别是通过学术团体，应用于当代妇女参与科学、坚持科学事业和取得成就方面的不平衡。该网络将研究通过更好地了解女科学家与学术团体的历史互动可能学到什么，这些学术团体包括皇家学会和皇家研究所、皇家化学学会、工程和技术研究所或皇家医师学院等。毕竟，正是通过这些享有盛誉的组织，想象力、争论、创造力、发现和好奇心的成果在很大程度上得到了出版、庆祝和奖励，但妇女与这些组织互动的历史尚未得到充分探索和记录。我们提议的网络将使参与者聚集在一起，在一系列英国研讨会上从几个角度讨论这一主题。参与者将带来历史和档案研究，传记和自传来源（包括口述历史）的使用，以及社会科学研究方法的专业知识。通过分享跨学科的方法，我们将探索每个小组在性别如何影响权威，专业知识，信任和参与科学的更广泛的历史中可以从其他方面学到什么。计划举行为期两天的会议，以收集和分享来自国际参与者的意见，从而实现跨国界和跨文化的思想交流。该计划的国际视角反映在该项目指导委员会中来自欧洲和美国的学者的出席。主要科学人物，在网络辩论中确定的机构和研究问题将构成大规模档案研究提案的基础。如果要提高女性在科学界的地位（目前的经验表明，大量人才正在流失到科学领域，同时也对英国经济的竞争力产生了影响），这样的研究对于理解为什么会发生这种情况以及如何纠正这种情况至关重要。该项目还将产生更直接的结果，这将对参与的学术团体的档案政策产生影响，以及其他一些短期成果。这是一个由金斯顿大学领导的合作项目，得到了皇家学会、罗斯柴尔德档案馆、伦敦和利物浦大学的支持。来自一系列教育、公共和专业机构的个人已经同意参与该项目的管理和网络本身。

'Words from the WISE: women in science 1830-2012' is a research network which aims to stimulate cross-disciplinary (both academic and non-academic) debate of the position of women in science today. Although WISE usually refers to Women in Science and Engineering, in the context of this project we also include technology and mathematics (which with Science and Engineering make up the STEM subjects) and medicine. The network will be composed of thirty or so participants who can bring a wide breadth of knowledge to the table, be they academic historians interested in how women first broke into the male enclave of science, to sociologists and policy makers concerned that women scientists still have a long way to go to achieve parity in representation at all levels. The aim is to generate new ideas concerning the application of an historical understanding of female scientists' experience of science, particularly through learned societies, to contemporary imbalances, with regard to participation of women in science, persistence in scientific careers and achievement. The network will examine what might be learned through a better understanding of female scientists' historical interactions with learned societies, such as the Royal Society and Royal Institution, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute for Engineering and Technology, or the Royal College of Physicians, to name a few. It is, after all, through these prestigious organisations that the fruits of imagination, argument, creativity, discovery and curiosity have largely been published, celebrated and rewarded, yet the history of women's interaction with them has not been fully explored and documented. Our proposed network will bring participants together to discuss the theme from several perspectives, in a series of UK-based workshops. Participants will bring expertise in historical and archival research, the use of biographical and autobiographical sources (including oral history), and social science research methods. By sharing cross disciplinary methodologies we will explore what each group might learn from the other in a wider history of how gender affects authority, expertise, trust and engagement in science. A two-day conference is planned, to accumulate and share views from international participants to enable a cross-border and cross-cultural exchange of ideas.The international perspective of this programme is reflected in the presence of scholars from Europe and the United States on the project's steering committee.The key scientific figures, institutions and research questions identified during the network debates will form the basis of a large scale archival research proposal. If the position of women in science is to be improved (and current experience suggests that large pools of talent are being lost to science with a concomitant effect on the competitiveness of the British economy), such research is essential to understanding why it is happening and how to correct it.The project will also produce more immediate outcomes which will have an impact on archival policies of the learned societies which participate, and a number of other short term outcomes. These are discussed in detail in the Impact Summary.This is a collaborative project led by Kingston University with support from The Royal Society, The Rothschild Archive, London and Liverpool University. Individuals from a range of educational, public and professional institutions have already agreed to participate in the management of the project and in the network itself.