Theme : engagement
- Making it up as we go along Synthetic Biology has again found its way onto the Today programme. The prompt this time is an admirable report (pdf) from bioscience funders the BBSRC, who asked social scientists Paul Martin and Andrew Balmer to map the social and ethical questions raised by this increasingly frenetic science. But the BBC's report is inevitably framed by Craig Venter, the energetic and unapologetic face of all things synthetic. Six months ago, when we hosted Craig Venter, I was convinced that the UK had a... from : jackstilgoe 10th June 2008
- Is politics stuck in the present? As the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill ducks and weaves through parliament, the debate around it reveals the poverty of the politics of the future. Politicians are pretty happy talking about VALUES, INTERESTS, THE EVIDENCE and even ETHICS. So abortion gets the headlines, alongside daddies for test tube babies. When it comes to the research aspects - hybrids, embryonic vs adult stem cells and all that - the evidence and the ethics are only part of the story. So Ann Widdecombe insists... from : jackstilgoe 21st May 2008
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Engaging engagement
Engagement is an art, and much like any art it requires practice and exercise. At Demos, we’ve been working with a new Canada-based organisation called Mass LBP. It claims to be reinventing public consultation and its premise is a simple one: that much as anyone should expect to perform jury duty at some point in their life, so everyone should expect at one point or another to be called upon to deliberate and feed into public consultation. The idea is that such consultation, such engagement should be near-routine, it should be embedded in the fabric of everyday life and the basis for everyday democracy.
from : catherinefieschi 19th May 2008 - The Talking Cure Demos will launch a new pamphlet which examines the future of medicine and healthcare in the UK, and argues that is now time to rethink and rebuild relationships between patients, professionals and the public. from : clairecoulier 15th April 2008
- Democratising Engagement Demos and the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex will launch a new publication entitled Democratising Engagement: What the UK can learn from international experience. from : clairecoulier 10th April 2008
- The synthesizer Demos has this morning hosted a round table with Craig Venter, controversial human genome projecteer and now spearhead of the next Next Big Thing: Synthetic Biology (or Synthetic Genomics if you prefer). Venter was engagingly open about the possibilities and pitfalls of Syn Bio, which promises to combine engineering with biology to design new lifeforms. He pointed to the possibilities of energy and fuel generation from new organisms and warned us that, if an innovative Siberian happened upon... from : jackstilgoe 23rd October 2007
- People Power? A Demos and Greenpeace workshop for European NGOs and others to share and learn from experiences of public participation in issues involving science. from : jackstilgoe 17th October 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
- Making sense of hybrids Tomorrow is a big day for science governance anoraks. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority are deciding (in public) whether to allow research on hybrid embryos. The novelty is that their decision comes after months of deliberation - some public, some private, in newspapers and in staged engagement experiments - among experts, policymakers and the public. For the last couple of years, we at Demos have been speaking to all sorts of organisations, including the HFEA, about how they... from : jackstilgoe 4th September 2007
- Nanodialogues Depending who you ask, nanotechnology might be the Next Big Thing, the Next Asbestos or the Next GM. But before its impacts have been felt, nanotechnology has become a test case for a new sort of governance. It is an opportunity to reimagine the relationship between science and democracy. from : markfuller 28th June 2007
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