Inspirations from the Futures + Literacies + Methods Lab

At the end of February, I spent two fantastic days at the Futures + Literacies + Methods Lab in Utrecht, in conversation with the amazing Annette Markham, Rebecca Coleman, Anna Hickey-Moody, Adi Kuntsman, Taylor Annabell, Riccardo Pronzato, Jessica Enevold, Levien Nordeman, Evelyn Wan, Ana Pop Stefanija, Jenny Chan, Ana Kubrusly, and many others, thinking through … Continue reading

Conversations at UCL

It was a real pleasure to give a seminar at University College London’s Structural & Molecular Biology department in March on ‘Futuring Engineering Biology: Making Innovation Work in Society’. The highlight, though, was the chance for one-to-one conversations with seven group leaders within the department. These exchanges were incredibly enriching: we spoke about how lab … Continue reading

Two Science Diplomacy Discussions

It has been a full few months of science diplomacy conversations—beginning in January with a US–UK bilateral meeting on ‘Knowledge Diplomacy as a Response to Knowledge Under Threat’, organised by the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and followed in March by a UK–Australia-focused conference, ‘Science & Conflict: Science Collaboration in … Continue reading