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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: From networks to fretworks: mapping the interface of pa
 tient involvement and animal research - Professor Gail Davies\, Geography\
 , University of Exeter
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DESCRIPTION:In this presentation I introduce a mapping device we have been
  using in our work to think about how knowledge\, narrative\, and work are
  framed at emerging institutional interfaces\, in this case between patien
 t involvement and animal research. This specific interface involves both n
 etworking and what we have called fretworking. The rise of formal practice
 s of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) can be seen as an interdisciplin
 ary networking activity that develops new connections between patient grou
 ps and laboratory animal research\, with the promise to address gaps in re
 search systems\, from translational relevance to public understanding. How
 ever\, these interfaces also inherit the absences and ambiguities of earli
 er conversations around animal research\, such that encounters are structu
 red as much by affective negotiation with these gaps – what we call fret
 work – as they are by the construction of new research relations. Patien
 ts struggle with complex ethical roles and responsibilities\; practitioner
 s are apprehensive about how to manage potential public and lay members co
 ncerns\; researchers are unsure about how to translate lay-knowledge into 
 research practices. We have used a mix of interviews\, participant observa
 tion\, and workshops to map the fretted structure of patient involvement w
 ith animal research and make these visible for all participants with the a
 im of enhancing reflexivity and the capacity for more meaningful and equit
 able encounters. In conclusion\, I reflect on how geographers more broadly
  might operationalise methodologies that engage the patterns between knowl
 edge control regimes (Hilgartner\, 2017) and the politics of exclusion wit
 hin entanglements (Giraud\, 2019). \n
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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