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
Legacies of the Asilomar
The three day event, ‘Engineering Life: Regulating Science, Risks, and Society in Europe‘, organised by Luis Campos (Rice University), Francesco Cassata (University of Genoa and Centro Linceo ‘B. Segre’), and Christina Brandt (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) in June was a real intellectual treat. I was glad to be able to contribute a talk, titled ‘From Self-Governing to … Continue reading
Ahead of the Future
As an empirical sociologist, I normally avoid speculating about the future in public. But I was immediately intrigued when I received the invitation to give a talk at the Future Trends Forum organised by the Bankinter Innovation Foundation. This is partly because this year the Forum brought together scientific experts from the fields of AI, … Continue reading
‘Augmented Agency’ at the End of April
At the time of writing, it’s already August. I have been on the road a lot since April. This also includes two extended travel with my parents to celebrate their respective 70th birthday 🎉. The ‘Augmented Agency ∝ Augmented Fairness Forum’ was definitely a highlight of GSEJ’s event of 2022/23 (notice the symbol in the … Continue reading
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
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
Main Stage at QED
I was thrilled to be invited to be a main stage speaker for the QED: Question, Explore, Discover annual convention in …2020. I was even more thrilled for QED to resume after the pandemic and I can finally take part of this event that I’ve heard so many great things about. (In short, QED is an … Continue reading
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