After two days of intensive examination and cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary dialogues, we believed that a better science dialogue was possible. So during the final day of the Beijing workshop on Promoting Social Embeddedness of New Biotechnologies, we tried to come up with individual and institutional action plans. Divided into four groups, we design recommendations for both home institutions and regulatory bodies on how to better embed public d...

After mappings out the tools and resources on the first day, day 2 of this Beijing workshop moved onto the practicals. In the morning, we had three consecutive sessions of ‘the Anatomy of An Idea’. A few participants pitch their idea on future research bids in the life science and acted as 'Project Leaders' (PLs). Based on these idea pitches, which included its intended scientific and social benefits, as well as potential diff...

On 14 October 2019, our interdisciplinary workshop, ‘Promoting Social Embeddedness of New Biotechnologies:Co-Developing Public Engagement in and with China’  began! Coordinated by Dr. Joy Zhang (University of Kent, PI), Prof. Xian-En Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, PI),  Prof. Mark Smales (University of Kent, Mentor), Director Paul Manners (UK’s National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement, Mentor), Prof. Lu Gao (Chine...

On 3 January 2019, Ministry of Science and Technology in China has officially accepted Dr. Joy Zhang’s policy recommendations on increasing transparency and public accountability of Chinese science and have circulated these recommendations in their Neican. 'Neican' refers to valued policy submissions which are put forward to ministers and other high-level officials. For social research to be featured in Neican is highly uncommon even for academic projects funded by C...