What’s in a slogan? Translational science and the rhetorical work of cancer researchers in a UK university

Rushforth, Alexander

doi:10.5324/njsts.v4i1.2170

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“…(Bourret, 2005;Keating and Cambrosio, 2012). Another interesting path for further inquiry is the very definition of translational research (Rushforth, 2016) (Rushforth et al, 2016). Also, it seems that adding more performance demands, more obligations and expectations for this groups of actors to live up to, might not be fruitful in a situation where clinician-scientists already are strung out by multiple arenas.…”

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Reframing translational research as transactional research:

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2019

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Translational research (TR) is subject to increasing attention and demand in research and health policy in the Nordic countries as well as internationally. While clinician-scientists are often positioned as key actors in both policy and academic debates on TR, less is known about the clinician-scientists’ everyday work—their practices and commitments at the interface of academia and clinical health care. Drawing on the framework of arena analysis, developed in situational analysis, this article presents an empirical exploration of the everyday practices of clinician-scientists by extending research into a Danish hospital setting. The findings shed light on hospital-based translational research as constituted by clinician-scientists’ practical integration of and transactions across many different work practice arenas. This paper depicts these arenas and the complex of commitments and capabilities involved. The analysis converges with existing Science and Technology Studies approaches to translational research as mutually reconfiguring clinical and scientific practices. In addition, it adds to this debate by providing an empirical work practice account of hospital-based TR and by suggesting a conceptual reframing of translational research as transactional research.

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confidence: 99%

Reframing translational research as transactional research:

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2019

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Everyday characterizations of translational research: researchers’ own use of terminology and models in medical research and practice

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2020

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Biomedical literature and policy are highly concerned with encouraging and improving the clinical application and clinical benefit of new scientific knowledge. Debates, theorizing, and policy initiatives aiming to close the “bench-to-bedside gap” have led to the development of “Translational Research” (TR), an emerging set of research-related discourses and practices within biomedicine. Studies in social science and the humanities have explored and challenged the assumptions underpinning specific TR models and policy initiatives, as well as the socio-material transformations involved. However, only few studies have explored TR as a productive ongoing process of meaning-making taking place as part of the everyday practices of the actual researchers located at the very nexus of science and clinic. This article therefore asks the question of how the discourse and promise of translation is embedded and performed within the practices and perspective of the specific actors involved. The findings are based on material from ethnographic fieldwork among translational researchers situated in a Danish hospital research setting. The analysis draws on the analytical notion of performativity in order to approach statements and models of TR in the light of their performative dimension. This analytical approach thus helps to highlight how the characterizations of TR also contain prescriptions for how the world must change for these characterizations to become true. The analysis provides insights into four different characterizations of TR and reflects on the associated practices where performative success is achieved in practice. With the presentation of these four characterizations, this paper illustrates different uses of the term TR among the actual actors engaged in research-clinic activities and contributes insight into the complex processes of conceptual and material reorganization that form part of the emergence of TR in biomedicine.

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What’s in a slogan? Translational science and the rhetorical work of cancer researchers in a UK university

Abstract: Translational science is currently proving a highly influential term in framing how

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Everyday characterizations of translational research: researchers’ own use of terminology and models in medical research and practice

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