Launching EARS: A New ODESSI Exploration
I’m super thrilled to launch ‘Tuning EARS for the Future’ — a GSEJ–PET collaboration and proud part of Wellcome’s ‘Constructive Conversations’ programme — together with our vision paper, After Attitudes: Tracking the Distance Between Science and Society to Guide Action. EARS starts with a simple question: public attitudes matter — but where does the distance between science and … Continue reading
O.D.E.S.S.I. Joins New Conversation in Southeast Asia
I feel honoured to have given a keynote in July at the International Science, Technology and Society Conference: STS for Social Good and to have had the opportunity to introduce O.D.E.S.S.I. to new audiences in Southeast Asia. What made the experience particularly rewarding was that this was not simply about explaining O.D.E.S.S.I., it was about seeing the … Continue reading
Summer Davos
I was delighted to take part in this year’s ‘Summer Davos’, also known as the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian. This year’s theme was ‘Innovating at Scale’ and I had the pleasure of contributing to two sessions during the meeting. On 24 June, I chaired the live-streamed session, ‘Why Biomanufacturing Is … Continue reading
Project Progress on Futuring Biological Commons
I was genuinely delighted to see the ARIA-funded Futuring Biological Commons project that I lead featured in a recent Nature spotlight article, Engineering Resilient Food Systems in a Warming World. The article explores how synthetic biology is increasingly being positioned as part of the response to climate pressures on global food systems One of the ideas highlighted in the article … Continue reading
Presenting O.D.E.SS.I. at UN STI Forum
Earlier this month, I had the privilege of co-hosting a side event at the 11th United Nations Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum) through the Centre for Global Science and Epistemic Justice (GSEJ), University of Kent, in collaboration with the Chinese Association of Science and Technology and … Continue reading
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
Keynoting at CERN: Synthetic Genomics and Shared Futures
When I was little, I had many wild dreams. But I can honestly say I never imagined that one day I’d be giving a keynote at CERN. Sheldon Cooper must be very jealous. Yet there I was at the 2025 Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit, dedicated to exploring ‘The Age of Possibility: Science, Sovereignty, and Shared … Continue reading
A New Odyssey for Public Engagement
Last week, the Centre for Global Science and Epistemic Justice (GSEJ) hosted ‘A New Odyssey for Public Engagement‘ at the British Academy. This small, invitation-only event brought together leading thinkers, science diplomacy experts, and scientists from four continents to explore how the O.D.E.SS.I. framework — Open, Deliberative, Enabling, Sensible and Sensitive, Innovative — can guide global practices of public dialogue on … Continue reading
