TY - JOUR
AU - Robinson, Sam
AU - Baumhammer, Megan
AU - Beiermann, Lea
AU - Bélteki, Dániel
AU - Chambers, Amy C.
AU - Gibbons, Kelcey
AU - Guimont, Edward
AU - Heffner, Kathryn
AU - Hill, Emma Louise
AU - Houghton, Jemma
AU - McCahey, Daniella
AU - Qidwai, Sarah
AU - Sleigh, Charlotte
AU - Sugden, Nicola
AU - Sumner, James
PY - 2020
DA - November
TI - Innovation in a crisis: Rethinking conferences and scholarship in a pandemic and climate emergency
JO - British Journal for the History of Science
EP - 590
VL - 53
IS - 4
DO - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087420000497
AB - It is a cliché of self-help advice that there are no problems, only opportunities. The rationale and actions of the BSHS in creating its Global Digital History of Science Festival may be a rare genuine confirmation of this mantra. The global COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 meant that the society's usual annual conference – like everyone else's – had to be cancelled. Once the society decided to go digital, we had a hundred days to organize and deliver our first online festival. In the hope that this will help, inspire and warn colleagues around the world who are also trying to move online, we here detail the considerations, conversations and thinking behind the organizing team's decisions.
PB - Cambridge University Press
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/a299a56b-8e0b-44fb-9136-0ac8731ef850
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Digital health and technology
KW - Education
ER