Mitchellmemo20

1. How is human-animal chimera research enabling the construction of new imaginaries in norms/ethics/policy?

-How do you think about your own work? -How do you juggle the “hopes” and the “horrors” of your research?
 * How do scientists view the work they are doing?

-How do you deal with ambiguities engendered by research? -How do you maintain or reconstruct new boundaries?
 * How are meaning systems reconstructed after a conceptual breakdown?

-How has your/their work altered policy and regulatory regimes? -How has your work altered what is considered possible in science?
 * How are new imaginaries interacting with policy, regulations, norms, ethics and economics?

-What techniques do interest groups use to express their concerns? -What type of a world do various publics imagine such research will ultimately lead to?
 * How does the public react to research in conflict with old normative and conceptual schemes?

2. How does a field and researchers in that field navigate the “cutting edge?”

-How do you view the public? -How do you view/incorporate the public’s view of your work?
 * How do scientists interact with the public?

-What factors have influenced your choice of particular technologies and techniques for your research? -What other than technology led to/allowed you to proceed with your current research?
 * What factors have led to the development of such a research track?

-What limits are placed on work? -What avenues does being on the “cutting edge” open up?
 * How are scientists constrained and enabled by being in such a space?

-Where do you believe your research will ultimately lead? -What kind of a world do your imagine your research is contributing to?
 * How do scientists imagine the future of the field and their place in it?