Science Participation in Brazil

Another event I organised recently was an ISRF funded forum on ‘Citizen science and Our Social-Technical Future: A Brazilian Perspective’, you can now watch the main talks on Youtube It was so wonderful to have an almost 150-minute discussion with leaders of the citizen science movement in São Paulo. The recording can be found on Youtube. At the … Continue reading →

New Article on Decolonising Science Governance

It’s so great to see my Critical Policy Studies (CPS) article on decolonisation out in March, during a series of events in which I was putting what I argued in the paper in practice . The paper, Decolonizing the Temporal and Relational Assumptions in Contemporary Science and Science Policies, captures a number of conceptual tools … Continue reading →

Recent Work Relating to Human Genome Editing

It was a privilege to be a main speaker again at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing on 6-8 March 2023 at the Francis Crick Institute. It was also a great pleasure to meet up with so many friends that I haven’t been able to see for quite a long time due to COVID. … Continue reading →

BioGovernance Commons Session on CRISPR

The first two months of 2023 were exceptionally intense for me. One main reason was that I, and Prof. Ruipeng Lei in China co-organised another BioGovernance Commons session on 11 Feburary. It was the first time that Jiankui He agreed to speak at a open discussion with Chinese academics on CRISPR technology since his release from prison. … Continue reading →