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Successful end of Wuhan workshop "Scientific Risk and Public Engagement"

30 March 2017

Scientific Risk and Public Engagement, organised together with Huanzhong University of Technology and The Research Centre for Bioethics of HUST, included interdisciplinary lectures and workshops that advocated for the need of public engagement (PE) in science, with a particular focus of GM food. Over 60 scientists, academics, public engagement professionals and innovators attended the workshop over the course of two days on...
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Press Release-Scientific Risk and Public Engagement Workshop, Wuhan (in Chinese)

19 March 2017
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Bernotaite Visits Chinese Partners in Wuhan

17 February 2017

by Ausma Bernotaite Research Officer Ausma Bernotaite recently visited Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST), our partners in hosting the Scientific Risk and Public Communication workshop in Wuhan this March. Our partner for the workshop is Prof Ruipeng Lei, who is also the Chairperson of the Department of Philosophy in HUST and the Executive Director of the Center for Bioethics. Prof Lei has been active in empo...
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Wuhan Workshop: Scientific Risk and Public Communication

18 January 2017

Scientific Risk and Public Communication Workshop 25-26 March (Saturday-Sunday), 2017 Venue: International Academic Exchange Center (IAEC), Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China Being a leading sponsor and beneficiary of life science research, the strategic importance of accountable governance of China's science is well recognised by domestic and international regulators, scientific practitioners and relevant industries. Yet in ...
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GM Debates with Chinese Characteristics?

22 December 2016

Dr. Joy Zhang recently contributed to the China Policy Institute Analysis (CPI: Analysis) blog at the University of Nottingham. In this piece, Dr Zhang highlighted the similarities of public scepticism towards GM food between China and European countries. She argued that ‘to highlight the close resemblance of the origin and public views of GM debates between China and Europe is not to negate Chinese particularities…But to ascribe something a...

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