Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare.
Improving laboratory animal science and welfare requires both new scientific research and insights from research in the humanities and social sciences. Whilst scientific research provides evidence to replace, reduce and refine procedures involving laboratory animals (the '3Rs'), work in th...
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| author | Gail F Davies Beth J Greenhough Pru Hobson-West Robert G W Kirk Ken Applebee Laura C Bellingan Manuel Berdoy Henry Buller Helen J Cassaday Keith Davies Daniela Diefenbacher Tone Druglitrø Maria Paula Escobar Carrie Friese Kathrin Herrmann Amy Hinterberger Wendy J Jarrett Kimberley Jayne Adam M Johnson Elizabeth R Johnson Timm Konold Matthew C Leach Sabina Leonelli David I Lewis Elliot J Lilley Emma R Longridge Carmen M McLeod Mara Miele Nicole C Nelson Elisabeth H Ormandy Helen Pallett Lonneke Poort Pandora Pound Edmund Ramsden Emma Roe Helen Scalway Astrid Schrader Chris J Scotton Cheryl L Scudamore Jane A Smith Lucy Whitfield Sarah Wolfensohn |
| author_facet | Gail F Davies Beth J Greenhough Pru Hobson-West Robert G W Kirk Ken Applebee Laura C Bellingan Manuel Berdoy Henry Buller Helen J Cassaday Keith Davies Daniela Diefenbacher Tone Druglitrø Maria Paula Escobar Carrie Friese Kathrin Herrmann Amy Hinterberger Wendy J Jarrett Kimberley Jayne Adam M Johnson Elizabeth R Johnson Timm Konold Matthew C Leach Sabina Leonelli David I Lewis Elliot J Lilley Emma R Longridge Carmen M McLeod Mara Miele Nicole C Nelson Elisabeth H Ormandy Helen Pallett Lonneke Poort Pandora Pound Edmund Ramsden Emma Roe Helen Scalway Astrid Schrader Chris J Scotton Cheryl L Scudamore Jane A Smith Lucy Whitfield Sarah Wolfensohn |
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| description | Improving laboratory animal science and welfare requires both new scientific research and insights from research in the humanities and social sciences. Whilst scientific research provides evidence to replace, reduce and refine procedures involving laboratory animals (the '3Rs'), work in the humanities and social sciences can help understand the social, economic and cultural processes that enhance or impede humane ways of knowing and working with laboratory animals. However, communication across these disciplinary perspectives is currently limited, and they design research programmes, generate results, engage users, and seek to influence policy in different ways. To facilitate dialogue and future research at this interface, we convened an interdisciplinary group of 45 life scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars, non-governmental organisations and policy-makers to generate a collaborative research agenda. This drew on methods employed by other agenda-setting exercises in science policy, using a collaborative and deliberative approach for the identification of research priorities. Participants were recruited from across the community, invited to submit research questions and vote on their priorities. They then met at an interactive workshop in the UK, discussed all 136 questions submitted, and collectively defined the 30 most important issues for the group. The output is a collaborative future agenda for research in the humanities and social sciences on laboratory animal science and welfare. The questions indicate a demand for new research in the humanities and social sciences to inform emerging discussions and priorities on the governance and practice of laboratory animal research, including on issues around: international harmonisation, openness and public engagement, 'cultures of care', harm-benefit analysis and the future of the 3Rs. The process outlined below underlines the value of interdisciplinary exchange for improving communication across different research cultures and identifies ways of enhancing the effectiveness of future research at the interface between the humanities, social sciences, science and science policy. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5d4d2534dba34d3ea79fb6452d4540cb2025-08-20T02:03:12ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032016-01-01117e015879110.1371/journal.pone.0158791Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare.Gail F DaviesBeth J GreenhoughPru Hobson-WestRobert G W KirkKen ApplebeeLaura C BellinganManuel BerdoyHenry BullerHelen J CassadayKeith DaviesDaniela DiefenbacherTone DruglitrøMaria Paula EscobarCarrie FrieseKathrin HerrmannAmy HinterbergerWendy J JarrettKimberley JayneAdam M JohnsonElizabeth R JohnsonTimm KonoldMatthew C LeachSabina LeonelliDavid I LewisElliot J LilleyEmma R LongridgeCarmen M McLeodMara MieleNicole C NelsonElisabeth H OrmandyHelen PallettLonneke PoortPandora PoundEdmund RamsdenEmma RoeHelen ScalwayAstrid SchraderChris J ScottonCheryl L ScudamoreJane A SmithLucy WhitfieldSarah WolfensohnImproving laboratory animal science and welfare requires both new scientific research and insights from research in the humanities and social sciences. Whilst scientific research provides evidence to replace, reduce and refine procedures involving laboratory animals (the '3Rs'), work in the humanities and social sciences can help understand the social, economic and cultural processes that enhance or impede humane ways of knowing and working with laboratory animals. However, communication across these disciplinary perspectives is currently limited, and they design research programmes, generate results, engage users, and seek to influence policy in different ways. To facilitate dialogue and future research at this interface, we convened an interdisciplinary group of 45 life scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars, non-governmental organisations and policy-makers to generate a collaborative research agenda. This drew on methods employed by other agenda-setting exercises in science policy, using a collaborative and deliberative approach for the identification of research priorities. Participants were recruited from across the community, invited to submit research questions and vote on their priorities. They then met at an interactive workshop in the UK, discussed all 136 questions submitted, and collectively defined the 30 most important issues for the group. The output is a collaborative future agenda for research in the humanities and social sciences on laboratory animal science and welfare. The questions indicate a demand for new research in the humanities and social sciences to inform emerging discussions and priorities on the governance and practice of laboratory animal research, including on issues around: international harmonisation, openness and public engagement, 'cultures of care', harm-benefit analysis and the future of the 3Rs. The process outlined below underlines the value of interdisciplinary exchange for improving communication across different research cultures and identifies ways of enhancing the effectiveness of future research at the interface between the humanities, social sciences, science and science policy.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0158791&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Gail F Davies Beth J Greenhough Pru Hobson-West Robert G W Kirk Ken Applebee Laura C Bellingan Manuel Berdoy Henry Buller Helen J Cassaday Keith Davies Daniela Diefenbacher Tone Druglitrø Maria Paula Escobar Carrie Friese Kathrin Herrmann Amy Hinterberger Wendy J Jarrett Kimberley Jayne Adam M Johnson Elizabeth R Johnson Timm Konold Matthew C Leach Sabina Leonelli David I Lewis Elliot J Lilley Emma R Longridge Carmen M McLeod Mara Miele Nicole C Nelson Elisabeth H Ormandy Helen Pallett Lonneke Poort Pandora Pound Edmund Ramsden Emma Roe Helen Scalway Astrid Schrader Chris J Scotton Cheryl L Scudamore Jane A Smith Lucy Whitfield Sarah Wolfensohn Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare. PLoS ONE |
| title | Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare. |
| title_full | Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare. |
| title_fullStr | Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare. |
| title_short | Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare. |
| title_sort | developing a collaborative agenda for humanities and social scientific research on laboratory animal science and welfare |
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