Members of the 3S group have organised panel sessions at three different European conferences over the summer of 2016 on the topic of relational and systemic approaches to public participation in science, innovation and sustainability transitions. These panels all draw on conceptual, methodological and empirical innovations in the 3S group from the recent Remaking Participation book and from our energy focussed projects, particularly in the Realising Transition Pathways project, and the Systemic participation and decision-making in UK energy transitions project.

Jason Chilvers and Helen Pallett have organised a double panel session on ‘Relational Geographies of Participation‘ at the Royal Geographical Society’s Annual Conference in London, 30th August – 2nd September. Panel presenters are: Kirsty Blackstock (James Hutton Institute), Alexandra Revez (National University of Ireland), Karin Book (Malmo University), Anastasia Moiseeva (Wageningen University), René Brauer (University of Surrey), Mirek Dymitrow (University of Gothenburg), Jason Chilvers, Helen Pallett, Ralitsa Hiteva (University of Sussex) & Kim Coetzee (University of Cape Town). For more information about this panel and the papers see here. 

Jason Chilvers and Helen Pallett have organised a panel on ‘Ecologies of participation: Thinking systemically about science and technology by other means’ at the 4S/EASST conference in Barcelona, Spain, 31st August – 3rd September. Panel presenters are: Helen Pallett, Lotte Krabbenborg (Radboud University), Sabine Könninger (IMEW – Institute “Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft”) & Jorge Martín Sainz de los Terreros (University College London). For more information about this panel see here.

Jason Chilvers, Helen Pallett and Noel Longhurst have organised a panel on ‘Energy and society in ‘whole systems’ perspective: Towards relational and co-productionist approaches’ at the 3^rd Energy and Society Conference: Transforming Energy for Society ESA RN12 – Environment and Society Midterm conference, Leipzig, Germany, 12th-14th September.