CITF-Postdoc

This website serves as a hub for my postdoctoral research at McGill University’s Covid-19 Immunity Task Force Databank.

The project is concerned with articulating social, collaborative and discursive aspects of epidemiological data-sharing initiatives, and how they relate to, overlap with or conflict with technical, institutional and epistemic factors.

This website hosts a series of preparatory protocols that structure the project, as well as notes about key concepts and reflections on the progress of work. Please keep in mind that this is a continually evolving site and its contents may change as the project goes on. All content is hosted and tracked at github.com/zackbatist/CITF-Postdoc.

Here’s an overview of what’s on this site:

Context: My motivations for doing this work and the circumstances that surround the establishment of the project.

Research Protocol: Outlines the project’s overall vision and contextualizes it in relation to specific objectives.

Case Selection: Articulates the parameters that inform how cases are selected.

Ethics Protocol: Specifies ethical considerations, including risks of harm and strategies for mitigating them.

Interview Protocol: The questions I will be asking research participants, including the rationale for asking them.

Data Management: Procedures that circumscribe collection, management and curation of research data.

QDA Protocol: The code system, memoing guidelines, and specific QDA procedures.

Glossary: A series of key terms and their definitions, with reference to the literature and expanded notes about their meanings.

Notes: Some semi-structured ideas that situate my work in relation to extant literature.

Blog: Updates and reflections on key events, or general thoughts I wish to share.

GitHub: A link to the GitHub repository where this website’s files are hosted.

Bib: A biblatex file containing a continually-updated list of sources cited in all documents hosted on this website.

RSS: RSS feed you can use to subscribe to the blog.