EP #309 - 07.13.2021 - Researchers Roundtable w/Tanya Corbin, Summer Merion, and Filip Vostel

Today is a researchers’ roundtable with Tanya Corbin, Summer Merion, and Filip Vostel.

Tanya Corbin (Ph.D. Political Science), is a disaster policy scholar and Department Chair of Security and Emergency Services at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide. Before pursuing an academic career, she worked in policy, non-profit, and business, including as a small business owner. This experience informs her academic work, where she aims to co-create knowledge with applied value to inform public policy and support practitioners through research and innovative academic program development. Her current research agenda includes a comparative project examining policy change after the 2017 hurricane season and governmental policy responses to COVID-19. She is Co-lead for the NSF CONVERGE Covid-19 Emergency Management Working Group with Dr. Samantha Montano.

Summer Marion is Incoming Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and PhD Candidate in Political Science at Northeastern University. She holds additional affiliations as a Research Fellow with the Pandemics and Borders Project, Research Associate with the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, and Visiting Researcher with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative under the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Summer's research focuses on global governance, international organizations, health security, and philanthropy. She is currently working on a projects examining the role of private foundations in outbreak preparedness, prevention, and response, as well as the border politics of global outbreaks. 

Filip Vostel is senior researcher at the Centre for Science, Technology, and Society Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has been working on synthesizing several streams within STS (e.g. lab studies, ANT) with social studies of time. In his current research he explores time and temporality in big science and how various time layers - and their interminglings - co-shape knowledge (and knowledge production). Currently he is writing a book investigating the multiplicity of speeds/accelerations in socio-technical domains and human lives broadly conceived (The Speed Complex: The Socio-Technical and Human Dimensions - to be published with Bristol University Press in 2023). He teaches STS at Charles University in Prague and serves as the Secretary at the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST).