“…In 2010, the leadership team at GARNet identified that the UK plant science community lacked a single unified voice so, in collaboration with the leaders of Brassica, Monogram, and Solanaceae networks, came together to establish a ‘Federation of UK Plant Science Communities’ that was supported by a GARNet-managed website ( Leonelli et al , 2012 ). The permanent staff supported by GARNet funding managed these resources for the benefit of the wider community.…”
Section: The Changing Landscape Of Uk Plant Sciencementioning
Successful collaborative research is dependent on excellent ideas and innovative experimental approaches as well as the provision of appropriate support networks. Collaboration requires venues, infrastructures, training facilities and, perhaps most importantly, a sustained commitment to working together as a community. These activities do not occur without significant effort yet can be facilitated and overseen by the leadership of a research network that has a clearly defined role to help build resources for their community. Over the past twenty years, this is a role that the UKRI-BBSRC funded GARNet network has played in the support of the UK curiosity-driven, discovery-led plant science research community. This article reviews the lessons learnt by GARNet in the hope that they can inform the practical implementation of current and future research networks
“…In 2010, the leadership team at GARNet identified that the UK plant science community lacked a single unified voice so, in collaboration with the leaders of Brassica, Monogram, and Solanaceae networks, came together to establish a ‘Federation of UK Plant Science Communities’ that was supported by a GARNet-managed website ( Leonelli et al , 2012 ). The permanent staff supported by GARNet funding managed these resources for the benefit of the wider community.…”
Section: The Changing Landscape Of Uk Plant Sciencementioning
Successful collaborative research is dependent on excellent ideas and innovative experimental approaches as well as the provision of appropriate support networks. Collaboration requires venues, infrastructures, training facilities and, perhaps most importantly, a sustained commitment to working together as a community. These activities do not occur without significant effort yet can be facilitated and overseen by the leadership of a research network that has a clearly defined role to help build resources for their community. Over the past twenty years, this is a role that the UKRI-BBSRC funded GARNet network has played in the support of the UK curiosity-driven, discovery-led plant science research community. This article reviews the lessons learnt by GARNet in the hope that they can inform the practical implementation of current and future research networks
“…Additionally, crop science is realising that Arabidopsis research provides excellent comparative tools for research across plant species. GARNet has taken the lead in coordinating meetings among investigators in both communities, resulting in the founding of the UK Plant Science Federation (Leonelli et al 2012). GARNet also has strongly affected the provision of bioinformatic services to plant scientists and biologists interested in Arabidopsis data.…”
Section: Steering Committees and The Case Of Garnetmentioning
It is widely recognised that social scaffolding is crucial to the entrenchment of new technologies and related standards and practices in scientific research, as well as to its manifestations and results. At the same time, there is little understanding of the circumstances under which, and the reasons why, some forms of sociality are effective in promoting particular types of scientific work. This chapter explores these questions by focusing on two forms of social scaffolding involved in the development of practices of data dissemination through digital means -and particularly infrastructures such as online databases -within the contemporary life sciences: (1) ontology consortia, which have recently emerged as de facto regulatory bodies for data curation in the US and Europe, and (2) steering committees for model organism communities, which play significant roles in the governance of biological research in the UK. I discuss the successful transformation of these initially ad hoc groups into scientific institutions with political and epistemic visibility and power. Drawing on political theory, I then argue that viewing these organisations as social movements is a fruitful strategy to understand their development from informal gatherings into wellrecognised regulatory bodies, and how this process of institutionalisation builds on highly entrenched forms of group socialisation. This in turn facilitates an analysis of the interrelation between institutional and infrastructural scaffolding involved in the evolution of scientific knowledge-making activities.
“…Agricultural machinery and practices are also witnessing a radical makeover, providing unprecedented opportunities for precision farming. These developments, combined with the pressing need to provide solutions to global challenges, are reuniting previously siloed sections of the plant and crop research communities (Leonelli et al ., ), and building and strengthening the connections between the academic research community and industrial partners.‘ … investment in all aspects of the research pipeline, from bench to field, is urgently required if plant science is to continue to feed, clothe, and equip the global population sustainably .’…”
Section: Uk Plantsci 2013 – 2nd Annual Meeting Of the Uk Plant Sciencmentioning
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