Joe Biden has announced that Professor Alondra Nelson will join the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as … More
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STEPS Centre at Sussex completes its fifteen year programme of work
The STEPS centre which has made a major contribution towards our understanding of pathways to sustainability comes to an end … More
STS Graz Virtual Conference 2021
The annual Graz conference (postponed from 2020) is now online. It will be a virtual event. See . (3-5 May … More
ISSTI Latest Report
The latest ISSTI Newsletter, Issue 38, can be found at https://bit.ly/ISSTI-News-December20
POST’s Sept/October Newsletter and Programme
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology has just published its latest Newsletter and planned programme of work. Some of … More
STS and Public/Policy engagement
Maggie Mort, Vicky Singleton and Alison Lloyd-Williams at the Department of Sociology and Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster University … More
POST June Newsletter and planned work
Members will in interested in seeing the planned work POST has just published. It is worth checking out how these … More
Latest Innogen Newsletter
Innogen’s latest news from their work in Edinburgh and the OU can be found at:https://mailings.ed.ac.uk/2MQP-1LQP1-BE53V7SR0C/cr.aspx
The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science Gareth Leng and Rhodri Ivor Leng MIT Press (2020)
This new book is worth a look – written by STS scholar Rhodri Leng and his father, an experimental physiologist … More
AsSIST-UK PhD Prize for 2020
The Executive Committee of AsSIST-UK is delighted to announce that the winner of this years AsSIST-UK PhD Prize is Dr … More