This month’s meeting will feature guest speaker Magriet Cruywagen, Lead for Research-Practice Collaboration for the Health Determinants Research Collaboration Glasgow, as well as updates on the society’s recent activities. After the meeting there’s an optional social in the pub, which you are also welcome to attend. 

This talk explores a few of the pitfalls (and attractions) of scientism – an inappropriately deferential attitude to scientific inquiry and findings that employs the prestige of science for disguise and/or protection. The speaker will draw on their experience of navigating the necessary limitations of the social sciences. Acknowledging the unfortunate misuse of this -ism in blanket attacks on the scientific process, the talk also makes a case for championing the systematic pursuit of knowledge of the natural and social world based on evidence.

About the Speaker:
Magriet Cruywagen is a Glasgow-based social researcher and systemic coach working at the intersection of education, health and social policy and practice, with a central interest in the design and implementation of research-practice collaborations and other collaborative research strategies. She is the Lead for Research-Practice Collaboration for the Health Determinants Research Collaboration Glasgow, which is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research.