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Conference Registration Opens!

21 January 2018

This ESRC project’s concluding conference, Governing Trust in the Biosciences, is now open for registration. The conference will be held on 22-23 February 2018 at the British Academy in London. It aims to promote cross-cultural dialogues on good governance and effective accountability between China and the UK. The discussion may be of particular interest to people working in the area of national and transnational science policy, public engagement, and the social studies of trust an...

GSA-China Welcomes Tom Douglass as the New Research Officer

9 November 2017

Tom Douglass, PhD Candidate at the SSPSSR, has joined the team as the research officer. He will work with Dr. Joy Zhang on dissemination of research findings, project outreach as well as on the project's final conference 'Governing Trust in Biosciences: Institutional and Cultural Change' to be held on 22 and 23 February 2018 at the British Academy. Graduated with the highest average on his degree programme, Tom was awarded with a BA (1st Class...

Prof. Gao and Dr. Liao Bring the EMR to Leading Chinese Universities

3 November 2017

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 ...

Bernotaite presents at BSA's Study Day on Risk and the Media

11 September 2017

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...

Dr. Miao Liao Joins the Team

7 July 2017

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...

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