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Connecting Science and Policy
Seventh science//society symposium
January 24-25, 2013
A symposium on 'Connecting Science and Policy' will be held in the Helix at DCU on 24-25th January 2013, this will be the seventh annual science//society symposium hosted by the Celsius group, DCU.
The event begins on the afternoon of Thursday 24 January 2013 at 4pm in The Helix, Dublin City University, and continues all day on Friday 25th.
Thursday 24 January 2013, 4pm, The Gallery, The Helix, Dublin City University
Keynote talk
Prof Ben Martin, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, on "What can policy-makers learn from science policy studies?"
With responses from Irish Government and selected panellists from Friday's research meeting
Friday 25 January, 9.30am-11.15am, Rooms S206/208, Engineering Research Building, DCU
Scientists in policy processes
Dr Niels Mejlgaard, Centre for Research Policy Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark: Applying science in policy: comparisons across Europe
Prof Kirk Junker, University of Cologne, Germany: EU-US comparison of environmental science policy implementation through law
Dr Seamus O Tuama, Department of Government, University College Cork: Expert-lay relations in the policy process
Chair: Dr Padraig Murphy, Celsius group co-ordinator, Dublin City University
Friday 25 January 2013, 11.30am-1.15pm, Rooms S206/208, Engineering Research Building, DCU
Science policy and public participation
Professor Fredric Adam and Paidi O'Reilly, University College Cork: European practices in technology assessment
Brenda McNally and Pat Hong, PhD candidates, Dublin City University: Public participation in sustainability and clean technology policies
Laura Sexton, PhD candidate, University College Cork: Ireland’s knowledge economy policies
Mary O’Regan, Tyndall Institute, University College Cork: Securing support for large-scale research facilities
Chair: Dr Ian Hughes, Forfás Innovation Department
Friday 25 January 2013, 2.15pm-4.00pm, Rooms S206/208, Engineering Research Building, DCU
Policy on science culture and communication
Dr Karen Bultitude, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London: Cross-country analysis of government science awareness and promotion programmes
Dr Lorna Ryan, Department of Sociology, City University London: EU policies on science communication and public engagement
Diana Smith, PhD candidate, Dublin City University: Science communication as ‘outreach’
Chair: Brian Trench, Dublin City University
Celsius is a DCU research cluster studying Cultural, Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Science. It is an interdisciplinary group bringing together researchers from a range of academic and professional backgrounds who analyse from various perspectives issues and implications of current developments in science, technology, environment and medicine.
To register for the event, please email directly to padraig.murphy@dcu.ie, specifying which date(s) you wish to attend.
IAMCR 2013: "Crises, 'Creative Destruction' and the Global Power and Communication Orders"
Conference, 25-29 June 2013
The School of Communications will be hosting the IAMCR 2013 annual conference on 25-29 June 2013. The overarching theme of the conference is "Crises, 'Creative Destruction' and the Global Power and Communication Orders".
The conference theme engages with the concepts of crisis and "creative destruction", associated with historically-rare periods of intensified flux, change and all-round, multi-dimensional processes of innovation.
The theme invites reflections on whether or how the current deep economic/financial crisis and its attendant gales of "creative destruction" may promote deep, fundamental or multiple shifts in the geo-political and communication orders globally. Examples of specific sub-themes here include considerations of whether and how the current crisis may serve to:
- Reshape the roles, operations and key features of mediated communication, not least the enhanced role of social media forms and practices;
- Amplify tendencies or shifts towards new geo-political configurations, including an expanded role for the media and cultural services in the operation of global power and hegemony;
- Accelerate change in the inter-play between "new" and "mature" media institutions and their typical practices, cultural forms, and policy frameworks;
- Amplify the search for new and more globally attuned theories and concepts within the expanding and rapidly diffusing field of media communication studies.
For further information on this conference theme, please see http://iamcr2013dublin.com
Media Diversity in Theory and Practice
Symposium and Workshop, Feb 2-3, 2012
The School of Communications is organising and hosting a symposium on
"Media Diversity in Theory and Practice" on 2-3, 2012
This event forms part of the School's involvement in the MEDIVA project, led by principal investigators: Prof. Paschal Preston and Dr. Neil O'Boyle. This EU-funded project seeks to strengthen the capacity of media to reflect the increasing diversity of European societies and to foster better understandings of immigrant integration.
For details of the Programme and other information on this event, please see Media Diversity in Theory and Practice - Programme
For those interested to learn more about the MEDIVA project please visit the MEDIVA site MEDIVA site
Sixth annual Celsius Symposium on Science and Society
Interdisciplinary experiences - collaborations and collisions
Friday 10 June 2011, 9am to 4pm, The Helix Gallery, Dublin City University
This symposium will explore incentives and inhibitions to collaborations in higher education and research between the natural sciences and engineering, on the one hand, and social sciences and humanities, on the other. A point of departure for this exploration is that many of the most pressing social issues and most engaging intellectual issues have a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary aspect.
The keynote speaker, Prof Brian Wynne (Lancaster University) is a pioneer in social studies of science with a long record of research and publication on issues in science governance. His most recent work has focused on social issues in biotechnology and genetics.
Draft programme
9.00 – 11.00 Interdisciplinarity and Pedagogy
Eilish McLaughlin (DCU School of Physics): Developing a module in Interdisciplinary Science
Lynn Scarff (TCD Science Gallery): The Future of Water – the Idea Translation Lab
Richard O’Kennedy (DCU Vice-President for Learning Innovation): Science in the courtroom – forensics, role-play and undergraduate education
Brian Trench (DCU School of Communications): Science communication – the evolution of a new academic subject
Chair: Marguerite Barry, DCU
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 1.00 Synergies between disciplines
Pat Brereton (DCU School of Communications, Associate Dean of Research for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) and Stephen Daniels (DCU School of Electronic Engineering): New research approaches for sustainability
Enrico Marsili (DCU School of Biotechnology) and Padraig Murphy (DCU School of Communications): A dialogical life cycle approach for nanotechnology?
Siobhan O’Sullivan (former scientific director, Irish Council for Bioethics, and member, European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies): Research ethics and bioethics – where disciplines meet
Chair: Juliana Adelman, TCD
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.15 Keynote address
Brian Wynne (Lancaster University): Lay expertise in governance of food biotechnology
Chair: Padraig Murphy
3.15 – 4.00 Concluding panel session
Chair: Brian Trench
The Celsius group wishes to acknowledge the support of the Office of Vice President of Research and the Office of Vice President of Learning Innovation