Jack Stilgoe
Senior Researcher
Jack Stilgoe works on science and technology projects and specialises in issues of science, society and public engagement.
"nanotechnology"
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- nanoscientists-meet-nanopublics Saturdays at the Natural History Museum are full of children and dinosaurs. But we found a way through to hold the first ever nanoscientists-meet-nanopublics workshop, as part of our work on public engagement with science. We had 12 members of the Great British Public and 12 extremely engaging nanoscientists - from PhDs to professors - talking about the possibilities and concerns of nano. The GBP had all been through focus groups that our colleagues at Lancaster ran earlier this year. Our... from : jackstilgoe 7th November 2005
- So it begins On Saturday, we managed to draw 13 people from East London, 3 from the Environment Agency, 2 scientists and one NGO representative away from their whale-watching to talk about the promise and peril of nanotech. It was the first day of a 3-stage People's Inquiry into nanotechnology and the environment. Seconds after pressing the start button, our People's Panel were asking important questions about the regulation and ownership of nanotechnologies.Over the next two sessions, the panel will... from : jackstilgoe 24th January 2006
- Nanotechnology and You Nanotechnologies could revolutionise many aspects of everyday life, including the treatment of diseases and injuries, and how we produce our food and energy. But do people want these new technologies? What are the risks, and will they be dealt with properly?The BBSRC exhibit Nanotechnology and You explores some current nanotechnology research and highlights recent public dialogue activities that asked the public what they think about nanotechnology and its future applications.Nanotechnology... from : jackstilgoe 11th April 2006
- Not so magic nano The promise and reality of nanotechnology are dancing again. More and more nano products drop out of the future to challenge the governance of technology. I've just written a piece on "Magic Nano" for open democracy . Though it may or may not contain a nano-something, and this nano-something may or may not have been the cause, a bunch of people were taken to hospital hours after using Magic Nano, days after it went on sale. The immediate questions this sort of thing asks of policy are a drop... from : jackstilgoe 28th April 2006
- Dialogue of the Defra Four of our People's Inquiry members and I went to Defra yesterday on the way home from work to chat about nanotechnology. All well and good and friendly doing public engagement. But it's a lot to ask people to head into a civil service corner office to chat to people all of whose waking hours are spent in the discomfort of nanotechnology policy. They played a blinder. The discussion was fascinating, and if it has no purchase on the emerging shape of nano, I will be interested to know why.Who... from : jackstilgoe 26th May 2006
- Harare 1 - Snakes in a Well The third nanodialogue has just wrapped up. In Harare, we've spent the last two weeks with mushroom-farmers, brick-makers and water scientists, imagining the role that nanotechnology might play in their lives. The gulf between Western technoscience and applications for poor communities is far wider than I'd imagined. Ask people from Epworth - a Harare suburb currently recovering from Mugabe's Operation Murambatsvina - what they want from new technologies and they talk about the rope and washer.. from : jackstilgoe 24th July 2006
- A new soft machine As we gear up to tomorrow's Atlas of Ideas launch, focussing on science in China, India and Korea, I've been thinking about some new bits of world-class British science. I spent last week in a Nano-sand-pit, working with 20 of the countries leading nano-scientists on new ways of turning information into stuff (towards a sort of mini 3D printer). The Ideas Factory blog, which over the course of the week climbed into Wordpress's top-ten, attracting over 100 comments, has just announced one of... from : jackstilgoe 16th January 2007
- The science we need, the science we want The Council for Science and Technology - Government's highest-level science advisory group - have this morning published their review of progress on nano policy. Broadly the message is... good work on the public engagement and standard setting but two thumbs down for funding far too few nanotoxicity studies. As is so often the case with science policy's unclear lines of responsibility, the buck has been passed along. The Science Minister was on the Today programme arguing that the money was... from : jackstilgoe 28th March 2007
- Nanodialogues from : markfuller 28th June 2007
- Nano and development workshop Demos and Practical Action are holding a workshop for NGOs and scientists, designed to build a new research agenda for nanotechnology and development. from : jackstilgoe 11th September 2007