Anne Beaulieu
Research and Publications
Laudatio Dina Friis
On 22 June 2022, Dina Friis defended her dissertation entitled Theorising Ambiguity: telling deliberately equivocal stories at Leiden University. I had the honour of giving a laudatio on this occasion.
Knowledge Infrastructures @EASST2022
Together with colleagues from the Knowledge Infrastructures Department of Campus Fryslân, we will present, organise and launch at the upcoming EASST conference in Madrid, from 6-9 Julu 2022
6 July 14:00 – 15:30
Room N106
Panel 010. ForeSTS
476. Imagining and evaluating olive orchards in Ege
Efe Cengiz, Anne Beaulieu, Carol Garzon-Lopez. Imagining and Evaluating Olive Orchards in Ege
6 July 14:00 – 15:30
Room N107
Panel 036 36 – CARE-FUL DATAFIED FUTURES AND TECHNOPOLITICS OF CARE, EASST 2022, Madrid July 2022
479. Selen Eren and Anne Beaulieu. To create better worlds: care for birds living now or care for data serving future?
6 July 15:30 – 17:00 Room N117 –
Panel 048. Transdisciplinary research: how to stay with the trouble and enable co-larning?
Anne Beaulieu, Sarah Feron, Andrej Zwitter. Enabling Transdisciplinary Work: insights from a newly established faculty Campus Fryslân
7 July
15.30-17.00
Room N102
Panel 051. Methodological experiments in STS: exploring digital and (quali-) quantitative methods
Anne Beaulieu, Respondent
8 July
12:30-14:00
Handbook and anthropology of technology: book presentation
Short presentation on chapter
Beaulieu, Anne. 2022. Organising Knowledge for Sustainable Futures. In Maja Hojer Bruun, Dorthe Brogaard Kristensen, Rachel Douglas-Jones, Cathrine Hasse, Klaus Høyer, Brit Ross Winthereik and Ayo Wahlberg Eds., Handbook for the Anthropology of Technology, Palgrave
14.00-15.30
Room N102
Panel 078. In-between metrics and global environmental assessments: valuing environmental scientists and valuing environmental knowledge
Thies Dinkelberg, Anne Beaulieu and Selen Eren. Movebank: how knowledge infrastructures shape the values the of data, technologies, animals and researchers
Award for education on academic integrity
UG Comenius project “Privacy in Research” one of the top 10 best practice according to the Council of Europe (news item)
In the framework of the Comenius Project, we developed a role playing game about privacy and research data. It was implemented in the minor Data Wise and has been recognized as one of the best practices by the Council of Europe in early 2022. The Comenius Project is dedicated to developing a series of resources to develop research relevant ways to teach about privacy and data. More about the Comenius project can be found on our site: https://sites.google.com/rug.nl/privacy-in-research/home
Data and Society–Our book is out!
Published version available from Sage and authors’ accepted manuscript available from our university repositories (U. of Exeter and U. of Groningen).
Rediscovering the ‘local’ in knowledge infrastructures, PhD Scholarship, apply by 15-11-2021
Major societal challenges such as climate change, land degradation or loss of biodiversity have been formulated through large-scale and centralized systems for global data. But recent calls for disaggregation and localisation of data point to the need to produce, handle and use data differently. How can these calls for the local be reconciled with decades of scholarship that insists that data have always been local? Explore this topic as part of a PhD with the Knowledge Infrastructure dept Campus Fryslân – University of Groningen. Apply by 15 November. More details on site of U. of Groningen. #PhD #scholarship #STS
Summer memories
A few days ago, I came across this photo from last July. This was my big smile finish for the Triathlon de Gatineau Olympic distance. A very fast swim, a very slow bike section and a relaxed run took me to the blue carpet. It was my first race post-Covid19 and I spent most of the run being incredibly grateful that I was actually on the course. My Dutch suit also got me a fist bump from the race director, since we share a surname. One of the other Beaulieus on the course, my little brother, cheered my arrival–he’d had time for a snack and a massage between his finish and mine!
Learning in the Anthropocene
Learning in the Anthropocene is the title of the lecture I will deliver at the opening of the academic year on 7 September in Leeuwarden.
Recent events have made us realise that we are part of a global system and living
under conditions often described as the Anthropocene—a label used to describe
human-induced changes to the climate. In her Gemma Frisius lecture, Prof. Anne
Beaulieu will share vital insights on what kind of learning is essential in order to
tackle the urgent problems we face.
See the full programme and the video of the lecture in the Grote of Jacobijnerkerk.
the university as expensive streaming service
What is the university without a physical campus? Since the spring, these variations on a meme have been putting forth an answer:
Why do some people think that this is what is left of the university, when stripped of its campus and shared physical space? The Data Research Centre reflected on the significance of infrastructure for higher education for the special issue on covid-19 of TH&MA, the journal for higher education management of the Dutch and Flemish institutions of higher learning. See the full edition here (in Dutch).
How do we value big data?
A nice question to sink your teeth into, thought Xiaoyao Han. Recently graduated from the Masters in Information Science from the Humboldt University in Berlin, Xiaoyao has joined Campus Fryslan and the Data Research Centre on 1 November. She will be working on a PhD project entitled Valuing Big Data. The project will be supervisied by Oskar Gstrein, Ronald Stolk and myself.
New project on energy, innovation and community
Imagine a group of people coming together around the shared project to produce energy locally, and who ways to benefit from more social connections, as well as cheaper and cleaner energy. That’s a recipe for a sustainable future!
This is the focus of a project for which funding has recently been announced, and entitled ‘Social entrepreneurship at the grid edge’.
Led by Charlotte Johnson (UCL), this project will explore how community groups can generate value through an energy system that is becoming more flexible and distributed. The project focuses specifically on demand side response and collective self-consumption opportunities.
Besides this great topic, another exciting aspect of this project is that it will connect critical infrastructure studies and place-based entrepreneurship theory, thereby linking two lines of work at Campus Fryslan on sustainable entrepreneurship (Emma Folmer) and on knowledge infrastructures for sustainability (Anne Beaulieu).
The project will include a comparative element between the UK and the Netherlands. This part of the project will be done by Esther van der Waal, who is just completing a PhD on Local energy innovators: collective experimentation for energy transition at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen.Dr Anna Rebmann (Kings College Business School) will also be involved.
A steering committee of stakeholders and academics will further support the project; UK Power Networks, Carbon Coop, Power2Change, Newham Council, Dr Sarah Darby (University of Oxford), Prof Sarah Bell (UCL IEDE), Prof David Shipworth (UCL Energy Institute) and Dr Anne Beaulieu (University of Groningen).
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