We are delighted to announce that in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, we are to host a 3-day interdisciplinary workshop in October 2019. We aim to bring together and empower a new generation of bioscientists and social scientists from both China and the UK to critically and creatively examine what effective public engagement entails. This work is supported by the British Council's Newton Fund. Here is a summary of the workshop, and a call for participants will be sent ...

Dr. Joy Zhang was invited to deliver two talks on key findings from this ESRC project at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing. Dr. Zhang first expressed her concern over a 'public engagement-deficit' in China's rise as a global scientific power in her Summit presentation. During the Summit, Chinese scientist Jiankui He’s announcement of the birth of gene-edited twins cast a shadow over ethical governance in this field....

On 22 and 23 February, we held a second international conference of this ESRC project at the British Academy. 30 delegates who are leading figures in their respective fields in China and the UK joined the discussion. The event featured two keynote presentations and six sessions. Baroness Onora O'Neill's thought-provoking opening keynote reflected on ways of conceptualising trust, trustworthiness and intelligent ac...

A report on the key findings, outputs and deliverables of this research project can be accessed here: GSA-Project-Report