CLARIS LPB as CLARIS LPB as EtnographicEtnographic Field Field

Proposal

Laura Rey 1 – Federico Robledo 2 – Valeria Hernández 3

The proposal to consider the CLARIS LPB collaborative project itself as a field of ethnographic research was presented by Dr. Valeria Hernández in the Kick Off Meeting

that took place during the month of October 2008 in Buenos Aires. At that time the network members validated the proposal and agreed to "play the game" collaborating with

the anthropologists of CLARIS LPB.

Carry out an etnography of the network

CLARIS LPB

Objectives Methods

Qualitative Research. Ethnographic Method. Using the techniques of participant observation and formal and informal interviews conducted during fieldwork, this methodology allows access to a deep understanding of the field under study.

Social Network Analysis (SNA). This methodological tool supposes a relational approach that allows to combine qualitative data, quantitative and graphical displays. The analytical capacity of this tool is based on its mathematical fundamentals of Graph Theory.

Other analytical tools: surveys, work with the website, workshops, use of photographic materials, analysis of written documents.

Preliminary Results

SNA: first maps

References:

* First author

o Female

Male

Colours: Partners

External

UFPR – Brazil

UBA - Argentine (FCEN)

UBA - Argentine (FAUBA)

IRD – France

Density (matrix average) = 0.9167

Co-authorship Network - Posters WP8 and 9 Meeting - Curitiba 09

The network represents the relations of co-authorship of the posters presented at the M1b of the WP8 and 9.

The nodes were identified by color and shape according to attributes of gender and institutional membership.

The size of ties corresponds to the number of posters in common, which varies from 1 to 3 in this case.

Preliminary Analysis

It is a network composed of 3 unrelated components. There is a correlation between the conformation of the components and institutional affiliation of the authors. Except to the component 2 there is no ties between authors from different institutions. The component 3 shows a relationship between authors of the same partner but different faculties.

The percentage of fragmentation of the graph is 62%.

The linkage between authors of different gender is highly balanced and also their involvement as first author.

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Design level network – relationship between WPs by researchers in common

The network represents the relations between WPs at project design level in terms of researchers shared between the different WPs.

The size of ties corresponds to the number of researchers in common.

Preliminary Analysis

It is a network of a single component with a density of 91.6%, ie that are present the 91.6% of all possible ties between the nodes.

In relation to the centrality degree of the nodes, it varies from 100% to 75% in cases of lesser degree. So, the WP with fewer connections is linked with 6 of the 8 WPs possible.

Whereupon the analysis of network density and the nodal centrality degree allows us to conclude that this is a highly connected network, with an homogeneus connection in terms of centrality degree, since there is no node related to less than 75% of the network.

It is recalled that in this case is an analysis of a formal network concerning design and organization characteristics project and not of a network of the dynamic real work.

Component Nodes Proportion ----------- ----------- ----------- 1 7 0.292 2 13 0.542 3 4 0.167

Components with 3 or more members: 1: 1 12 13 17 18 22 24 2: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 19 20 21 3: 14 15 16 23

Fragmentation: 0.620 (prop. of nodes that cannot reach each other)

Quantitative surveys

Other media available

Contribute to the WP2 overall objective of foster and coordinate dissemination activities of the CLARIS LPB initiatives and results at scientific, public, and stakeholder levels, in order to gain public support for national/regional efforts to address climate change, improve collective responses and promote the development of national climate change action plans.

Achieving a better understanding of the pluridisciplinary dynamic work of this research network.

Contribute to strengthening the multiregional and transectorial cooperation characteristics of CLARIS LPB project.

Stimulating the epistemological reflexivity about the structure "collaborative network" as knowledge-production device.

Development We have defined three areas of analysis to be addressed through qualitative and quantitative methods described in the correspondent section.

Cognitive axis: analysis of the logic of scientific knowledge production used in the pluridisciplinary field of climate change in general and in CLARIS LPB in particular.

Relational axis: study of the mode of relationship of disciplinary communities that comprise the consortium, both locally and globally.

Institutional axis: linked to the history and dynamics of institutions that comprise the network, focusing on how this dynamic works on into the structure "collaborative network" of CLARIS LPB.

Challenges Achieving a good relationship between qualitative research and quantitative research.

Implement a multisituated perspective that allows look at the overall network performance. Explore the tools available as: skype for conducting interviews, surveys designed specifically for WP Meetings, visits to each laboratory, ethnographers ad hoc, and so on.

Transcend the regional level in order to observe how pluridisciplinary, multiregionality and transectoriality are put into practice globally.

Gain greater access to knowledge sharing activities. Extend the methods and techniques for remote event log.

Etnography of the network: In 2009 it began the fieldwork of CLARIS LPB network, in particular by interviewing participants with working basis in Argentina (biographical interviews, of professional trajectory, of institutional history, of

discipline history, etc. It was conducted participant observation work in various events such as meetings organized by the Young Scientist (Mr. Federico Robledo) in Argentina (see box), the XIII Latin American and Iberian Congress of Meteorology

(Climet XIII), the X Argentinian Congress de Meteorology (CONGREMET X) and the II Conference of the Interdisciplinary Program at the University of Buenos Aires on Climate Change (PIUBACC).

1 FFyL- UBA / 2 DCAO – FCEN – UBA / 3 IRD

CLARIS-LPB Young Scientists

One of the explicit objectives of CLARIS LPB Project is to strengthen and promote the actions of young researchers in order to contribute to the formation of future generations of scientists, so was

formed in relation to this end the Young Scientists group (YS).

In late 2008 was created the forum and the maillist of YS in order to facilitate the circulation of information (conferences, courses, job

positions...) and open different topics of interest and debate. Since its forming, the YS developed two reflective documents that circulating

among CLARIS LPB members by e-mail.

We are working

about the dynamics

of this space.Pluridisciplinary Spaces

Throughout 2009 the Young Scientist, Federico Robledo, has coordinated four pluridisciplinary

meetings of CLARIS LPB carried out in Argentina. Its aim consist of open a space for integrating and

exchanging knowledge on the many topics addressed by the project CLARIS LPB.

We designed surveys about operation and participant´s perception of the space and conducted

ethnographic work of participant observation.

Total Surveys 39

People Surveyed 32

Female Surveyed 21

Male Surveyed 8

NS/NC 3

Age

Valid Cases 28

NS/NC 4

Total 32

Minimum 23

Maximum 60

Mean 34,14

Std. Deviation 9,808

Last Degree Total

Studient Bachelor Phd  

Age Ranges

20-30 2 10 2 15

31-40 0 1 3 5

41-50 0 0 5 5

+ de 51 0 0 2 2

Total 2 11 12 27

Meeting WP6 - In wich WPs do you participate?

WP 1 WP3 WP4 WP5 WP6 WP7 WP8 WP9

0 4 5 2 9 0 0 2

  33% 41% 16% 75%     16%

 

Totally Enough Something Nothing

Discipline *

A C D A D B A B C A

Tencer 2 - 1 4 - 3 6 - 1 1

Penalba 4 - - 5 1 2 4 2 1 -

Hernandez / Fossa Riglos - 1 - - - - 2 - - -

WP6 9 - - 2 - - 1 - - -

References

Cod Discipline

AClimatology - Meteorology - Atmospheric Scs - Oceanography

BBiology - Ecology - Geography

CAnthropology - Politics Science

D Programming

Impact level of shared information

Surveys: some results…

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