The working life of scientists: exploring the culture of scientific research through the personal archive of Donald Michie

该项目旨在将Donald Michie的生活和职业与Gary Werskey的Visible College等作品结合起来。把Michie放在更广泛的“红色科学家”的背景下，特别是记录李森科事件的后果和英国对苏联科学信任的下降，也会很有趣。该项目旨在探讨与Michie和他的圈子有关的性别问题，正如Werskey自己所指出的那样，这在早期的英国左翼科学家史学中是缺失的。考虑到安妮·麦克拉伦在米奇的生活和工作中的个人和职业关系的中心地位，我们将对安妮·麦克拉伦的论文进行广泛的考虑。我们将探讨科学传播的本质与Michie的机器智能发展之间的关系，目的是为新的科学发展如何在它们的传播中出现这个问题奠定基础。该研究人员计划以他自己对科学传播过程和诸如Secord等人的研究的第一手经验为基础，特别注意Michie工作的领域正在进行的研究和传播过程。通过研究Michie的论文，我们有机会进一步阐明科学家作为政治参与者的角色，这对科学家和公众都有好处。

This project aims to contextualise Donald Michie's life and career alongside works such as Gary Werskey's Visible College. Placing Michie in the broader context of 'red scientists', in particular documenting the fallout from the Lysenko affair and the decline of British scientific trust in the Soviet Union, would also be of interest. The project aims to pursue questions of gender in relation to Michie and his circle, which, as Werskey himself noted, were missing from earlier historiography on scientists of the British Left. Extensive consideration will be given to the Anne McLaren papers, given the centrality of her relationship, both personal and professional, to Michie in his life and work. The nature of science communication in relation to Michie's developments of machine intelligence will be explored, with the aim of grounding the question of how new scientific developments emerge in terms of their communication. The researcher plans to build on his own first-hand experience of the process of science communication and the research of people such as Secord, particularly noting the on-going process of research and communication of the fields in which Michie worked. Through researching Michie's papers, there is the opportunity to shed further light on the role of scientists as political actors, for both the benefit of scientists and their publics.