The latest ESST Review has been published. The EASST Review 40(2) is online – with plans of EASST2022, reflections by @stsing_org on infrastructuring an STS association and much much more! https://easst.net/easst-review/
News
AsSIST-UK PhD Prize 2021 Award Announced
The AsSIST-UK Executive Committee is delighted to announce that this year’s award goes to Dr Mat Vidmar of the University of Edinburgh. Mat’s thesis is on Scottish Space Sector and Innovation; A PERIpatetic study of an emerging innovation system and… Read More ›
“UK innovation policy is stuck between forward and reverse”
AsSIST-UK Member, Kieron Flanagan (University of Manchester) provides a powerful critique of the UK government’s thinking on science and innovation. See Research Professional – UK innovation policy is stuck between forward and reverse
4S President-Elect, Alondra Nelson, appointed to Biden’s Cabinet
Joe Biden has announced that Professor Alondra Nelson will join the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as deputy director for science and society: see ‘Inspired choice’: Biden appoints sociologist Alondra Nelson to top science post (nature.com). She… Read More ›
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 in 2021 after fifteen years of ESRC core funding along with significant income from other agencies. Its co-Directors, Andy Stirling… Read 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 2021): Overview · Indico (tugraz.at)
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 the themes in the programme map on to A-UK members’ areas of expertise, so worth having a look through. See… Read 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 have just launched a VR film they have created based on the account of those caught in the floods earlier… Read 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 link to your own research and then contacting POST to see how you can help inform their planned ‘POST Notes’…. Read More ›
