Investigating scientific practice with ethnographic film

In this article, we consider how ethnographic filmmaking can be used to investigate scientific practices, using a co-taught course on visual
ethnographies of science as a means of exploring this. In 2021-2022 we collaborated to develop teaching that combined methods from visual
anthropology with theories and concepts from science and technology studies (STS). The resulting course, titled “Visual Ethnographies of Science”,
supported students in using visual methods to investigate scientific practices. In this article we describe the course and our learning from it
in order to show how the use of audio-visual methods can enable students and researchers to explore the nature of processes and practices, in
particular those found within science. Our experience is that ethnographic filmmaking is generative for critical reflections on method, investigations
of the mundane doing of science, and collaborative engagements with interlocutors.