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The Promise of Science: Deliberating on biomedicine, health and democracy in the Ugandan parliament

科学的承诺：乌干达议会审议生物医学、健康和民主

基本信息

批准号：
ES/L010704/1
负责人：
Kerry Holden
金额：
$ 31.81万
依托单位：
Queen Mary University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2015 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FL010704%2F1
关键词：
Promise Science Deliberating biomedicine health

项目摘要

The proposed research explores science and democracy through the lens of scientific capacity building in Uganda. While scientific capacity building is often cast as a common good, its practices and implementation at the level of local institutions are little understood, and yet it broaches concerns about the globalisation of science and health governance, the spatialisation of development practices, and the relationship between liberal democracy and scientific knowledge. These concerns are contrasted against urgent calls to secure the health needs of poorer populations, and through international research networks, advance knowledge and understanding of major health issues affecting world populations, such as how to mitigate the health effects of environmental change, how to cope with growing populations, and how to contain infectious diseases. The research focusses on the practices and perspectives of parliamentarians, parliamentary staff and researchers, donor agencies and research organisations in incorporating biomedical and health-related knowledge into parliamentary business. Drawing on text-based analysis of documents, in-depth semi-structured interviews and observational fieldwork of committee meetings, the study builds up a case study of science and health governance in the global south. The project examines the processes that bring scientific capacity into being, asking how 'capacity' is imagined by the different actors involved. By this means, it explores how knowledge production is translated into political communication and action, and how trajectories of health, biomedicine and democratisation converge in a legislative arena.Political institutions are increasingly required to deliberate on issues that carry significant technical and scientific content. Parliaments emerge as important institutions that reassert the role of the state in development policy and carry the torch of democracy. Parliaments have the potential to bring together different sectors of society - experts, civil society, business, policymakers and donors - to develop informed, equitable and sustainable forms of governance. However, in a country such as Uganda, questions have been raised about the capacities of parliament to deliberate on complex issues as well as its actual power in scrutinising government. This is where scientific capacity building gains its impetus. While the rationale to intervene in African parliaments appears legitimate, practitioners of capacity building programmes struggle to reflect on the assumptions underpinning their work, in particular the relationship between knowledge and power; and local researchers are often not equipped with the skills and knowledge to do critical work at the science/society border that interrogates the effectiveness of donor programmes, and works to improve them in context. This project aims to develop an impact agenda that addresses these gaps, and by doing so, capacity builds itself. The project aims to translate the research into the policymaking and practices of Ugandan (which include research participants, social scientists, scientists and researchers, donor and civil society organisations) and UK-based users (which include think tanks on development and science, donor agencies, and social scientists working in similar areas based at QMUL and other universities). Communicating with users will be accomplished through a structured dissemination path that involves publishing 2 journal articles and one single authored monograph, presenting at conferences, and attending seminars and reading groups. In addition, non-academic users in the UK and Uganda will be invited to participate in a series of four knowledge exchange events, in which they will be introduced and asked to engage in research design and data analysis. The research will be supported by a webpage and regular briefings will be sent to users, updating them on its progress at specific stages.

拟议的研究通过乌干达科学能力建设的透镜探索科学和民主。虽然科学能力建设通常被视为一种共同利益，但其在地方机构一级的实践和实施却鲜为人知，但它引起了人们对科学和卫生治理全球化、发展实践空间化以及自由民主与科学知识之间关系的关注。与这些关切形成对照的是，迫切呼吁确保较贫穷人口的健康需求，并通过国际研究网络，增进对影响世界人口的主要健康问题的认识和了解，如如何减轻环境变化对健康的影响，如何科普不断增长的人口，以及如何遏制传染病。研究重点是议员，议会工作人员和研究人员，捐助机构和研究组织在将生物医学和健康相关知识纳入议会业务方面的做法和观点。该研究利用基于文本的文件分析，深入的半结构化访谈和委员会会议的观察性实地工作，建立了一个全球南方科学和卫生治理的案例研究。该项目研究了使科学能力形成的过程，询问所涉及的不同行为者如何想象“能力”。通过这种方式，它探讨了知识生产如何转化为政治沟通和行动，以及健康，生物医学和民主化的轨迹如何在立法竞技场中汇聚。政治机构越来越需要审议具有重要技术和科学内容的问题。议会作为重申国家在发展政策中的作用和高举民主火炬的重要机构出现。伙伴关系有可能将社会的不同部门-专家、民间社会、企业、决策者和捐助者-聚集在一起，发展知情、公平和可持续的治理形式。然而，在乌干达这样的国家，人们对议会审议复杂问题的能力及其审查政府的实际权力提出了质疑。这就是科学能力建设获得动力的地方。虽然干预非洲议会的理由似乎是合理的，但能力建设方案的执行者努力反思其工作所依据的假设，特别是知识与权力之间的关系;当地研究人员往往不具备在科学/社会边界开展关键工作的技能和知识，这些工作质疑捐助方方案的有效性，并努力根据具体情况改进这些方案。该项目旨在制定一个影响议程，解决这些差距，并通过这样做，能力建设本身。该项目旨在将研究转化为乌干达（包括研究参与者，社会科学家，科学家和研究人员，捐助者和民间社会组织）和英国用户（包括发展和科学智库，捐助机构和在QMUL和其他大学类似领域工作的社会科学家）的决策和实践。与用户的沟通将通过结构化的传播途径完成，包括发表2篇期刊文章和一篇单独撰写的专著，在会议上发表，参加研讨会和阅读小组。此外，英国和乌干达的非学术用户将被邀请参加一系列的四个知识交流活动，在这些活动中，他们将被介绍并要求从事研究设计和数据分析。研究将得到一个网页的支持，并将定期向用户发送简报，向他们介绍研究在特定阶段的最新进展。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（6）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Evidence in African parliaments

非洲议会的证据

DOI：
发表时间：
2017
期刊：
影响因子：
0
作者：
Rasheed Draman
通讯作者：
Rasheed Draman

Memories and motherhood in the rhythms of Ugandan computing

乌干达计算节奏中的记忆和母性

DOI：
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
Feminism, Theory, Technoscience
影响因子：
0
作者：
Kerry Holden
通讯作者：
Kerry Holden

A collaboratively derived international research agenda on legislative science advice

协作得出的立法科学建议国际研究议程

DOI：
10.1057/s41599-019-0318-6
发表时间：
2019
期刊：
Palgrave Communications
影响因子：
4
作者：
Akerlof, Karen;Tyler, Chris;Foxen, Sarah Elizabeth;Heath, Erin;Gual Soler, Marga;Allegra, Alessandro;Cloyd, Emily T.;Hird, John A.;Nelson, Selena M.;Nguyen, Christina T.
通讯作者：
Nguyen, Christina T.

From Under the Wheels of the Juggernaut: Global Health Networks, Gold Standards and the Possibilities for Social Science Critique

来自主宰者的车轮下：全球卫生网络、黄金标准和社会科学批评的可能性