嵌入式社会科学与英国政府COVID-19应对

IF 1.1 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology in Action-Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.3167/aia.2022.290107

A. Tasker, L. Irvine

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严重急性呼吸系统综合征冠状病毒2型疫情的复杂性和演变性对国家和国际应急准备和响应提出了重大挑战。政府必须实时浏览新兴数据流，综合来自不同来源的知识，为政策提供信息。英国政府借鉴了早期流行病的经验，通过借调早期职业学者作为嵌入式科学家，弥合了社会科学研究和政策之间的差距。在这篇文章中，我们提供了比较人种学数据，描述了嵌入式社会科学家对英国新冠肺炎准备和应对的贡献。我们发现，嵌入式科学家的边缘地位、松散的身份和高度的自主权使这些人能够驾驭多个网络，以加强社会科学在政策辩论中的作用并使其合法化。

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Embedded Social Science and the British Government COVID-19 Response

The complex and evolving nature of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic poses significant challenges to national and international emergency preparedness and response. Governments must navigate streams of emerging data in real time, synthesising knowledge from diverse sources to inform policy. The UK government drew on experiences from earlier pandemics to bridge perceived gaps between social science research and policy through the secondment of early-career academics as embedded scientists. In this article, we present comparative ethnographic data describing embedded social scientists’ contributions to UK COVID-19 preparedness and response. We find that the liminal position, loose identities, and high degree of autonomy of embedded scientists allowed these individuals to navigate multiple networks to strengthen and legitimise the role of social science within policy debates.

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Anthropology in Action-Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

3.10

自引率

7.10%

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审稿时长

24 weeks

期刊介绍： Anthropology in Action (AIA) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles, commentaries, research reports, and book reviews in applied anthropology. Contributions reflect the use of anthropological training in policy- or practice-oriented work and foster the broader application of these approaches to practical problems. The journal provides a forum for debate and analysis for anthropologists working both inside and outside academia and aims to promote communication amongst practitioners, academics and students of anthropology in order to advance the cross-fertilisation of expertise and ideas. Recent themes and articles have included the anthropology of welfare, transferring anthropological skills to applied health research, design considerations in old-age living, museum-based anthropology education, cultural identities and British citizenship, feminism and anthropology, and international student and youth mobility.