Scholars Award: An Investigation of the Technoscientific Flexibility of Research Infrastructure

这是一个分析多中心艾滋病队列研究（MACS）的建议，以揭示基础设施适应不断变化的科学和社会知识的重要方式，以及这些知识如何改变研究对象的理解方式。研究人员将使用档案和民族志研究方法来进行分析。这项研究的结果不仅会引起对艾滋病毒/艾滋病相对较近的历史感兴趣的科学家的兴趣，而且还会引起政治科学家、社会学家、组织理论专家和广泛的卫生政策专家的兴趣。这项研究的结果将通过为改进未来研究基础设施投资的设计提供见解，具有影响科学政策的巨大潜力。

This is a proposal to analyze the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) in order to bring to light important ways in which infrastructures adapt to changing scientific and social knowledge, and how such knowledge changes the way the object of study is understood. The researcher will use both archival and ethnographic research methods in carrying out the analysis.The results of this research will be of interest not only to scientists interested in the relatively recent history of HIV/AIDS, but also political scientists, sociologists, organizational theory experts, and a wide-range of health policy experts. The results of the study will have substantial potential to impact science policy by providing insights for improving the design of future research infrastructure investments.