Modelling in practice: an institutional ethnography of infectious disease modelling

实践中的建模：传染病建模的机构民族志

• 批准号: 2905963
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2905963
• 关键词: Modelling; practice; institutional; ethnography; infectious

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the growth of epidemiological modelling's influence on social life and policy. Although there are studies that have documented how epidemiological modelling has accumulated its political capital and that have demonstrated the repercussions of the policies driven by the models, still little is known about how the models are produced in practice. This PhD project aims to fill in this gap with an ethnographic study of the practices of infectious disease modelling and the differences between these practices in different organizations. By conducting qualitative interviews with the modellers, engaging in participant observation in two prominent laboratories in the UK or abroad, and critically examining the models themselves, I hope to demonstrate the ethical repercussions of current modelling practices and outline the potential ways to improve them.

COVID-19 大流行加速了流行病学模型对社会生活和政策影响的增长。尽管有研究记录了流行病学模型如何积累其政治资本，并证明了模型驱动的政策的影响，但人们对模型在实践中是如何产生的仍然知之甚少。该博士项目旨在通过对传染病建模实践以及不同组织中这些实践之间的差异进行人种学研究来填补这一空白。通过对建模者进行定性访谈，在英国或国外的两个著名实验室进行参与观察，并批判性地检查模型本身，我希望展示当前建模实践的道德影响，并概述改进它们的潜在方法。