Paper short abstract:

I draw upon the evolution of my friendship with research subjects in order to theorise about the social factors enabling crossdisciplinary collaboration and public communication of science in action.

Paper long abstract:

In 2012, when I started a sociological study about a dendroclimatological laboratory, my research subjects regarded me with suspicion and they called me a "climate sceptic". Three years later, the same dendroclimatologists conceived my research as part of their efforts to communicate their science to the public and they often called me a "dendrosociologist". The methodology of my research, which I characterise as being based in friendships (TillmannHealy, 2003), is, I believe, one of the main reasons why my research subjects have granted credibility to my account, and hence, I have been able to explain to the public the process by which climate science is made. I will draw upon my personal research experience but I will also try to move away from them in order to theorise the reasons why friendships foster crossdisciplinary collaboration and public communicatioin of science in action. This presentation is the first part of two talks. The second one is a commentary by one of my research subjects about our friendship and research collaboration overall. References: TillmannHealy, Lisa M. "Friendship as Method." Qualitative Inquiry 9.5 (2003): 729749.