From: alice bell <[email protected]> Some of you may have seen the science policy blog we launched at the Guardian a few months ago.
I'm keen to use it as a space where we can share and discuss academic expertise on this area. The Guardian are worried it'll be "too academic" so it's a bit of a juggle, especially as we find our feet but we've had great articles from Sheila Jasanoff, Andy Stirling and Jon Agar recently (linked to below) and I'd love more. So, if any of you want to write something, let me know. And do pass this on. PhD students to Profs, doesn't matter. Pitch me an idea and we'll see if/ how it might work. A blog format means we can be reasonably flexible, but I generally say 900 ish words, on something reasonably topical about the governance of science, with links and written for a non-specialist but interested reader. Some background on the whole idea here might help, or just have a poke around at what's already published: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/feb/13/political-science-guardian-bloggers Worth saying that we only get v small bit of of ad revenue for Guardian for it, which goes to a pot for public engagement work held at UCL STS department. So we can't pay - it'd be for fun/ public engagement only (and yes, I know this is problematic... wasn't something I entered into lightly). Also, I'm an editor at New Left Project in my spare time, and happy to take longer, more scholarly essays/ book reviews for that too. This allows you to get out of science bubble, but is limited more politically ("left" there meaning "of UK Labour"). A couple examples below with the Guardian stuff. Alice -- Dr Alice R Bell. Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex. http://alicerosebell.wordpress.com/ -- * Andy Stirling - Fear of flying and the hazards of communicating risk http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/feb/14/fear-flying-hazards-communicating-risk * Jon Agar - Was Margaret Thatcher's ideology rooted in her experience as a scientist? http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/apr/09/margaret-thatcher-ideology-scientist * Sheila Jasanoff - Watching the watchers: lessons from the science of science advice http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/apr/08/lessons-science-advice * Christopher Shaw - What Zombie Films Can Teach Us About Climate Change http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/what_zombie_films_can_teach_us_about_climate_change * William Davies - Apologists for Power http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/apologists_for_power * Alice Bell - A Life of Galileo: What Brecht can teach us about the public ownership of science http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/a_life_of_galileo -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
