Co-Host UK-India G20 Event in Delhi
I felt very privileged to co-organise this UK-India dialogue on BioGovernance and Science Diplomacy with Krishna Ravi Srinivas at the RIS in Delhi last week, as part of a series of discussions leading up to this year’s G20 meeting. (Background paper and full agenda can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eMdA5Gzn) We were thrilled to have Dr Renu Swarup give the opening … Continue reading
Scandals and RRI – Call for Papers
In collaboration with Kathleen Vogel (Arizona State University), Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley (George Mason University) I’m organising a special issue for the top quartile journal, Journal of Responsible Innovation on the topic ‘How Do Scandals Shape the Understanding and Practice of Responsible Research and Innovation?‘ Scientific scandals are particularly important to our understanding and practice of … Continue reading
Climate and Health
I joined the Wellcome Trust’s Climate Impacts Advisory Committee in June. The Wellcome Climate Impacts Awards fund transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects, combining evidence generation with communications and/or public engagement. The aim is to make the impacts of climate change visible across a wide range of physical and mental health outcomes in order to drive … 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
Book Launches at RoRI and UCL
It was a real delight to have an online launch of my co-authored book, the Elephant and Dragon in Contemporary Life Science: A Call for Decolonising Global Governance at the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) University of Sheffield on 20th October. Given the book’s intention is to reframe how responsible innovation can be more effectively promoted … Continue reading
New Project: Diffractive Knowledge Production
On my last day as the Director of Studies for Sociology, I was thrilled to learn to that my BA/Leverhulme Small Grant has been successful. It’s only a one-year project but the perfect time and perfect way to kick start a bigger intellectual journey. The project, ‘Diffractive Knowledge Production in North-South Innovation Strategies: A Study … Continue reading
Book Reviewed in the Journal of Development Studies
It’s really wonderful to see my new book with Saheli reviewed in the Journal of Development Studies. Thanks to Professor Larry Au at the Department of Sociology, the City College of New York, for this excellent review! I love how this review concluded: ‘Perhaps, in the future, we can come to speak of a global … Continue reading
Science Diplomacy Review Special Issue
I am to organise a panel discussion at the EASST annual conference in Madrid this July, with the aim to expand our understanding of the ‘Track II’ diplomacy by incorporating new initiatives from the Global South. But then I thought, actually one of the best ways to ‘de-colonise’ our epistemology is to directly participate in … Continue reading
Public Lecture- Max Planck Institute
I’m thrilled to be invited by Dr Anna Ahlers and the Lise Meitner Research Group to speak at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science’s Trusting Science colloquium on 31 May. I was tasked to address the provocative question -‘Can We Trust Science from China?’ To be honest, when I first received the … Continue reading
The Ethics of Protecting ‘CRISPR Babies’
You may recall that I’ve established a new research centre at Kent earlier this year. Although the official launch is/was scheduled for September 2022, I’m so pleased to say that journey of making a difference in the world was kicked off by a fantastic international roundtable this March. On 18 March, I convened an international … Continue reading
