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This week, Chinese partners, Prof. Lu Gao and Dr. Miao Liao brought the Educational Module Resource (EMR) to science postgraduates at Tsinghua University. The decision to incorporate EMR into the course, Innovation and the Development of Science &Technology, as explained by the module convenor Prof. Zhengfeng Li, was to give students 'a more comprehensives understanding of innovation'. Students' feedback ...

On Friday, September 8, BSA held a workshop on Risk and the Media, Research Officer, Ausma Bernotaite presented her work on risk frames of Golden Rice, a genetically modified food product, representation in the Philippine and Bangladeshi media. Bernotaite drew on her work of contested media representations of GMO risk in Bangladeshi and Philippine media to argue that through different focus of GM food and public health perc...

We welcome Dr. Miao Liao from Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development (CASTED), Ministry of Science and Technology, to join our research team on Governing Scientific Accountability in China. Dr. Liao is to work with Dr Joy Zhang to develop an Educational Module Resource (EMR) on the public engagement of science for key Chinese institutions. The need to establish an EMR with locally-adapted teaching material to support scientific practitioners and educators learning about res...

The 25 May issue of Nature features Dr Joy Zhang's commentary on the state of Chinese governance of scientific research, 'Transparency Is a Growth Industry'. China is currently the world's second largest investor on scientific research and is increasingly seen as an advantageous destination for scientific powers, such as the UK to forge sustained research collaborations. Drawing on her research on Chinese scientific governance in the past...

On 27 March 2017 China's official science newspaper, Science and Technology Daily, reported on Dr Joy Zhang's ESRC workshop in Wuhan. The workshop stems from Dr Zhang's ESRC funded project, 'Governing Scientific Accountability in China'. Extensive fieldwork from the study has found that although there is good will from both scientific practitioners and civil society groups, as well as heavy investme...