Public Understanding and the New Politics of Science
UK/Nordics Collaboration in the Social Sciences
London Workshop: 15-16 April 1999
Venue:
Science Policy Support Group
1 Birdcage Walk
London
SW1H 9JJ
Aims:
** To review developments in science policy arising from changes in PUS
research and practice
** To place these in the different policy contexts of the participating
countries
** To allow interchanges with the work of the Fellows in the UK New
Opportunities Programme
** To establish a basis for future collaboration:
- in a possible extension of collaboration between ESRC and NOS-S
- in the context of any successor to the ESRC New Opportunities Programme
- in relation to FP5
- in any other appropriate context
The price is 30 pounds for both days, including VAT, and includes 2 lunches
and refreshments.
To register please contact Tim Rogers at the following address:
Science Policy Support Group
1 Birdcage Walk
Westminster
London SW1
T. +44 171 799 3335
F. +44 171 799 3336
or register on-line at:
www.spsg.org/pus/index.html
**Programme**
Thursday 15 April:
09.00 09.30 Registration and coffee
09.30 09.45 Introduction and welcome: Alan Irwin and Peter Healey
09.45 10.05 Andy Jamison The New Politics of Participation: between
Rhetoric and Reality
10.05 10.25 Steve Fuller: Dimensions of PUS: themes from a global
cyberconference
10.25 10.45 Matthias Kaiser: Research Ethics as an Issue in Norwegian
Science Policy
10.45 11.05 Stellan Welin: Public reactions to Xenotransplantation
11.05 - 11.30 Coffee
11:30 11.50 Egil Kallerud: The public dimension and the reshaping of
science policy
11.50 12.10 Reijo Mietinnen: Scientists encounter publics: dialogues in
local trading zones
12.10 12.30 Jesper Lassen: Debating Biotechnology in Denmark:
Consensus Conferences and Beyond
12.30 13.20 Panel led discussion: the Public Understanding of Science
Agenda what we know, what we need to know
Participants:
Bo Öhngren, HSFR, Sweden
Margareta Bertilsson, University of Copenhagen
Chris Caswill, ESRC
Representative, DG XII, European Commission
Anthony Tomei, Nuffield Foundation
Alan Irwin, Brunel University
13.20 14.10 Lunch
14.10 14.25 Current Work and Future collaboration:
Introduction Peter Healey, SPSG
14.25 16.00 Current Work and Future collaboration:
Tour de Table of ESRC Programme Fellows
16.00 16.20 Tea
16.20 18.00 Current Work and Future collaboration:
Tour de Table of other participants
Friday 16 April
09.30 11.00 Current Work and Future collaboration:
A framework for future proposals I
11.00 11.30 Coffee
11.30 13.00 Current Work and Future collaboration:
A framework for future proposals II
13.00 14.00 Lunch and workshop close
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