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 ...

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...

Speaking at the 3rd Global China Dialogue at the British Academy last Friday, Dr Joy Zhang argued that 'sustainable sustainability' depends not only on sound economic calculation, but also on healthy and fair social relations. There is both a temporal and a spatial dimension to sustainable development. Drawing on her fieldwork finding on China’s food safety debate, Dr Zhang pointed out that few would dispute that how ...

Dr Joy Zhang recently attended the ChinaReproTech conference organised by the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at Cambridge. A most intriguing theme related to the governance of scientific accountability in China was the twin discourses on 'insurance' and 'assurance'. Both papers in the opening session dwelled on quality 'assurance' and the 'insurance' of good birth/good life. Th...