In 2015, I interviewed six early career scientists about the social difficulties they faced in lab environments. My interviewees wanted to share stories of work-place bullying, gender issues, ways of dealing with toxic individuals, and the pressures of the peer-review process. Two of them had decided to leave research.
To ensure anonymity, I asked actors to read out the transcripts of the interviews. I then rearranged that material into a 20-minute short film. My hope is that the documentary ("Social Science") will give a sense of the kinds of social difficulties behind the wider "leaky pipeline" problem, where young, talented women leave science after completing their PhDs.
In this session of "Coffee with scientists", we will screen the short film, discuss the issues raised by the interviewees, and consider ways in which HPS researchers could throw light on some of the social and political problems in the sciences using filmmaking and other media.
Hope to see many of you there.
Karoliina Pulkkinen
PhD student at HPS
kjp41@cam.ac.uk
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