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In early March, Dr Joy Zhang attended the ChinaRepro Tech Workshop organised by the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at Cambridge University. The workshop kicked off with small group discussions on two manuscripts: Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China by Dr. Ayo Wahlberg and Infertile Futures: Producing and Reproducing the Chinese Environment by Dr. Janelle Lamoreaux. These two groundbreaking empirical studies offer socio-historical...

China's poor enforcement of legal and ethical regulations has repeatedly been highlighted by many studies as a major hurdle both to the responsible application of new bio-technologies in China and to sustaining public confidence in life science research globally. Recently a journalist from the French newspaper, Ouest-France, interviewed Dr Joy Zhang on China's green governance. Law enforcement was a central issue of their discussion. Dr Zhang ...

GSA-China officially kicked off on 19th January 2015 and there is already a fascinating data set to analyse! Currently the PI, Joy Zhang, is working with the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development (CASTED) to systematically re-examine a recent set of interviews and focus groups on risks and ethical issues relating to Chinese environmental sciences and biosciences. This data set is on scientific practitioners, or as professors at CASTED def...