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Critical studies of public engagement in science and the environment

3S / February 25, 2014

Friday 24 April 2009, University of Birmingham

The opening mini-conference of the ESRC seminar series ‘Critical perspectives on public engagement in science and environmental risk’ explores the theoretical, methodological, empirical and practical dimensions of the emerging critical research agenda on participation in science and the environment. The morning session includes agenda setting presentations from leading scholars in STS, geography, and planning alongside reflective commentaries from practitioners in the field, followed by open plenary discussion to draw out connections between them. Key themes and research questions to be addressed throughout the seminar series will then be mapped out in afternoon workshop discussions.

Seminar report available here bham_rpt

To read more about the seminar series see here.

Programme

10.00am Registration, the Undercroft (enter via Geography, R26 on campus map)
10.30am Welcome and Introduction (Biosciences E102, R27 on campus map) Professor Judith Petts (Pro-vice Chancellor, University of Birmingham) Dr Jason Chilvers (Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia)
10.45am Publics, politics and participation: some critical reflections from planning Professor Susan Owens (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)
11.10am ‘Broadening out’ and ‘opening up’: precaution and accountability in public engagement Professor Andy Stirling (SPRU and STEPS Centre, University of Sussex)
11.35am The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable? science, engagement and the hunt for consensus Professor Alan Irwin (Copenhagen Business School)
12.00pm Reflective commentaries  Professor Kathy Sykes (University of Bristol) Dr Darren Bhattachary (BMRB) Plenary discussion
12.45pm Buffet Lunch, the Undercroft
1.45pm Workshop Discussions: Critical reflections, themes and questions Critical reflections on participation in science and the environment, and generation of seminar themes and questions which provisionally include:♦ Genealogies, epistemologies and the co-production of public engagement ♦ Public engagement expertise, professionalisation, and actor roles/relations ♦ The effects of discourses of participation and power dynamics ♦ The framing, construction and performance of public engagement ♦ Transformational change, learning and reflexivity
3.45pm Plenary discussion and closing comments (Biosciences E102)
4.30pm Refreshments, the Undercroft

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February 25, 2014 in 3S Events, Participation and engagement, Reports. Tags: public engagement, public participation

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The rise of public participation in science and the environment in all its forms – ranging from institutionalised invited spaces of engagement to those that are uninvited and citizen-led – has the potential to empower citizens, enhance social justice and the quality of decisions, but also to close down, disempower and exclude. Research under this theme involves the study of democratic experiments and innovations in participatory governance. These are reconfiguring relationships between science, policy and society and coproducing knowledges, appraisals and commitments in response to sustainability challenges.

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