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How do we know what we think we know?
How do we know what we think we know?
g² Insight Lab conducts independent research into knowledge, investigative reasoning and complex human systems.
Our research asks how evidence becomes knowledge, how investigations can be made more rigorous, and how interacting human systems can be reconstructed and understood.
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THREE QUESTIONS. THREE RESEARCH PROGRAMMES.
THREE QUESTIONS. THREE RESEARCH PROGRAMMES.
The research architecture of g² Insight Lab is organised around three foundational questions.
Philosophy of Inquiry
Philosophy of Inquiry
How can we know?
Research into knowledge, evidence, inference, uncertainty, explanation, competing accounts, revision and the limits of what can responsibly be claimed as known.
Science of Investigative Reasoning
Science of Investigative Reasoning
How do we investigate?
Research into the reasoning structures used when investigators move from incomplete information toward warranted conclusions, including observation, evidence organisation, competing hypotheses, uncertainty, challenge and reassessment.
Complex Human Systems
Complex Human Systems
How does the system behave?
Research into systems made up of interacting people, roles, institutions, rules, communication pathways, authority, incentives, constraints and feedback processes.
The Handbook formally establishes these as the Institute's three research programmes and frames their foundational questions around knowledge and uncertainty, investigation, and the functioning of complex human systems.
FLAGSHIP METHODOLOGY
FLAGSHIP METHODOLOGY
Forensic STEM™
Forensic STEM™
Forensic STEM™ is a developing integrative investigative methodology for the structured reconstruction of complex human systems from available evidence.
It is developed principally within the Complex Human Systems research programme while drawing upon work in Philosophy of Inquiry and Science of Investigative Reasoning.
Its current operative procedural specification is:
FS-POST-1.0
FS-POST-1.0
Post-Comparative Methodological Specification
The methodology remains under active research. Current work does not claim that novelty, validity, reliability, superiority, generalisability or comparative effectiveness have been established.
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RESEARCH RECORD
RESEARCH RECORD
Research should leave an auditable trail.
Research should leave an auditable trail.
g² Insight Lab maintains a developing publication record documenting the evolution, specification, comparison and evaluation of its research.
Current formal outputs include Working Papers, White Papers and methodological specifications.
Your present Forensic STEM™ record includes The Methodology of Forensic STEM™ Working Paper No. 001 v4.0, six White Papers, and FS-POST-1.0. The foundational Working Paper explicitly records the relationship between those documents rather than silently replacing earlier positions.
HOW g² CONDUCTS RESEARCH
HOW g² CONDUCTS RESEARCH
Inquiry before certainty.
Inquiry before certainty.
Research conducted under g² Insight Lab operates within the Research Handbook and the wider research governance framework.
The current Handbook identifies principles including Observation Before Explanation, Transparency of Reasoning, Proportionate Confidence, Systematic Inquiry, Reproducibility, Intellectual Independence, Constructive Scientific Critique and Continual Improvement.
The aim is not to protect an idea from challenge.
The aim is to make the reasoning, evidence, uncertainty and revision visible enough that the idea can be challenged.
How These Programmes Connect
How These Programmes Connect
HOW CAN WE KNOW?
Philosophy of Inquiry
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HOW DO WE INVESTIGATE?
Science of Investigative Reasoning
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HOW DOES THE SYSTEM BEHAVE?
Complex Human Systems
The programmes are distinct, but they interact. Questions about evidence affect how investigations are designed. Investigative reasoning affects how systems are reconstructed. Complex systems, in turn, expose new problems of evidence, explanation and uncertainty.
CURRENT RESEARCH POSITION
CURRENT RESEARCH POSITION
Research is ongoing.
Research is ongoing.
g² Insight Lab develops research through specification, publication, critique, revision and testing.
Forensic STEM™, for example, has moved from foundational formulation through comparative methodological analysis to the current FS-POST-1.0 specification. The immediate research priority has now moved toward independent methodological challenge and subsequent empirical testing.
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Philosophy of Inquiry
How can we know?
Science of Investigative Reasoning
How do we investigate?
Complex Human Systems
How does the system behave?
Forensic STEM™
Flagship investigative methodology.
Publications
Working Papers, White Papers and specifications.
Research Governance
How research is governed, challenged and revised.
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