Helen Verran, Giles Campbell-Wright and Nicholas B. de Weydenthal, "Interview with Helen Verran - Part 1 of 2", contributed by Benjamin Nicoll, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 5 August 2018, accessed 18 April 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/interview-helen-verran-part-1-2
Critical Commentary
This is Part 1 of a two-part video interview with Helen Verran, a key figure in Australian Science and Technology Studies.
Part 1 covers Helen Verran's background / STS in Australia and its relationship to STS overseas
Part 2 covers Helen Verran's concepts, and can be found here.
Timestamps:
Helen Verran’s background
00:37 Career beginning
05:00 Moving to Nigeria
07:10 Following the development of the field of STS from a distance
07:40 Coming back to Australia from Nigeria
09:30 Joining Deakin University
11:00 Start of engagement in Indigenous knowledge
15:55 Development of the Deakin STS community
20.20 Move to UniMelb HPS
21:30 Bruno Latour meeting at Unimelb
23:30 HPS vs Sociology of Science - Concern to explain difference
STS in Australia and its relationship to STS overseas
24:10 Identifying Australian STS and its uniqueness
26:15 Working from the periphery in relation to global STS
29:15 The contributions of Australian STS
32:20 Promise of Deakin STS in the future