Research by 3S member Martin Mahony has helped inform a new piece of theatre, which will be staged in Birmingham and London next month. Part of the Archives Assemble! project, Missives tells the story of an earthquake crisis in 1930s Montserrat. Using verbatim archival extracts and new material by playwright Chadd Cumberbatch and A-Dziko Simba Gegele, the piece explores the complex, human and sometimes very…
Professor Matthew Kearnes (University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney) will be giving our next 3S Seminar, Wednesday 18th December 2024, 13:00-14:00pm, SCI 01.38 (UEA). During the seminar, Professor Kearnes will introduce the concept of ‘critical circularity‘ of the circular economy, with reference to two overlapping studies focused on the configuration of projects of repair and…
Universities are increasingly being challenged to show leadership in responding to and addressing climate change. Staff, students and the wider UEA community are already attempting to address some of these challenges on their own terms. However, universities have wider untapped potential to move beyond a siloed approach to decision-making and address the many social and…
We invite you to join us for this symposium co-organised by 3S member Casper Laing Ebbensgaard as part of the Housing Future research project to share your experiences of housing and discuss the future of housing in Norwich on Thursday 14th March 2024, 12-5 pm, at Anteros Gallery (11-15 Fye Bridge Street, Norwich, NR3 1LJ)!…
We are delighted to invite contributions to a panel on ‘mapping participation’ at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2024 in London on 27th-30th August 2024. The panel is organised by 3S members Jason Chilvers, Helen Pallett, Phedeas Stephanides and Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda. This session brings together work on mapping public participation and engagement that is emerging in geography,…
Universities are increasingly being challenged to show leadership in responding to and addressing climate change. Staff, students and the wider UEA community are already attempting to address some of these challenges on their own terms. However, universities have wider untapped potential to move beyond a siloed approach to decision-making and address the many social and…
We are delighted to invite contributions to our panel at the 2024 quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in Amsterdam on 16-19 July. The panel is co-convened by 3S members Jason Chilvers, Helen Pallett, Phedeas Stephanides and…
How do we engage with the colonial present? This question is central to Planetary Portals Collective, and on the 8 December they will present two related bodies of recent work: the launch of the newly published book, Red Earth, by Michael Salu and a performance-reading of Diamond Power by the Collective (Michael Salu, Kathryn Yusoff,…
Through a series of collaborative experiments with partners, the UK Energy Research Centre’s (UKERC) Public Engagement Observatory, based in the 3S Research Group, is actively exploring how new approaches to mapping diverse forms of public engagement across systems can make a difference in practice to energy and climate-related decisions, innovations and new forms of participation.…
The UKERC Public Engagement Observatory, based in the 3S Research Group, maps the many different ways that people are engaging with energy, climate change and net zero on an ongoing basis. In this webinar, taking place on Monday 11th September 2023, 2-3pm, the Observatory team will present the findings of a major new analysis of…
Join us on Tuesday 5th July 2022, from 2pm to 3pm, on a webinar marking the launch of the new dedicated website and open access database of UKERC’s Public Engagement Observatory that is based in the 3S Research Group.
3S member Martin Mahony joins Professor Vinita Damodaran (University of Sussex) and Professor Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge) on a special panel discussion on climate change and colonialism. The panel discussion is organised by the Cambridge HPS Anthropocene (Climate Histories) reading/seminar group and will take place on Thursday 26th May at 2pm BST. The hybrid…
Midnight Sun examines everyday spaces and technologies of night in the vertical city. By displaying bespoke photography, digital media, and sculptural artworks in close dialogue with research materials drawn from everyday life in the vertical city, the exhibition questions how we might reckon with the entangled hi/stories of life in the nocturnal city. The exhibition…
Dr Irene Lorenzoni (3S Research Group, UEA) 3S Seminar, 19th May 2021, 16:00-17:00 BST on MS Teams (please email Mandy Harmer <Amanda.Hamer@uea.ac.uk> if you would like to attend, an invite will be sent before the seminar). The standard advice to politicians confronting long-term challenges such as decarbonisation is to adopt commitment devices such as binding policies. Yet…
Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh (CAST & University of Bath) 3S Seminar, 21th April 2021, 16:00-17:00 BST on MS Teams (please email Mandy Harmer <Amanda.Hamer@uea.ac.uk> if you would like to attend, an invite will be sent before the seminar). In this talk, I will present recent findings from public deliberation (e.g., Climate Assembly UK) and opinion surveys to…
Dr Casper Ebbensgaard (3S Research Group, UEA) 3S Seminar, 18th November, 16:00-17:00 GMT on MS Teams (please email Mandy Harmer <Amanda.Hamer@uea.ac.uk> if you would like to attend, an invite will be sent the day before the seminar). In this paper, I investigate how the legal planning system in the UK encourages forms of residential high-rise development in…
Dr Laurie Waller (3S Research Group, UEA) 3S Seminar, 14th October, 16:00-17:00 BST on MS Teams (please email Mandy Harmer <Amanda.Hamer@uea.ac.uk> if you would like to attend, an invite will be sent the day before the seminar). The large-scale removal of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CDR) is a central focus of contemporary climate policy. Assessing the “real-world”…
Leading sustainability experts join forces with 3S academics to address the sustainability debate. Join the conversation now by posting your own questions to the debate panellists!
The 3rd seminar in the ‘Nuclear futures: re-making sociotechnical research agendas’ interdisciplinary seminar series will be held at UEA on 9th-10th January 2017. Its title is ‘Publics and participation in radioactive waste management’.
‘Environment(s) in Public?’ Workshop, University of East Anglia, 2-3rd November 2014 Co-organised by the Science in Public Network; 3S research group; and Broads Authority Researchers studying the interactions between science and society argue that rather than thinking about ‘the public’, models of multiple ‘publics’ interacting with specific, situated scientific ideas offers a better way of understanding scientific communication, public engagement and…
London, Thursday 17 February 2011 This final workshop of the two-year ESRC Seminar Series ‘Critical perspectives on public engagement in science and environmental risk’ drew together insights and themes from across the seminars, which sought to consolidate a new field of critical public engagement research and practice in the context of anticipatory governance of emerging technologies…
Thursday 26 October 2010, SPRU, University of Sussex The fourth workshop in the ESRC seminar series Critical Perspectives on Public Engagement in Science and Environmental Risk explored both formal and informal forms of public engagement and participation in the context of energy systems and transitions to sustainability. The energy system and the need to build more…
Thursday 10 June 2010, University of East Anglia The third workshop of the ESRC seminar series Critical Perspectives on Public Engagement in Science and Environmental Risk explored the topic of emerging forms of public engagement and participation in the context of geologic and flood hazards. The management of natural hazards has traditionally been dominated by…
Institute of Hazard and Risk Research, Durham University Tuesday 15 December 2009 The second workshop of the ESRC seminar series Critical Perspectives on Public Engagement in Science and Environmental Risk explored the incipient institutionalisation of public engagement and deliberation. Contemporary science policy has taken a distinct ‘deliberative turn’. Across a range of domains – biotechnology,…
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…
UEA London on April 3rd 2014, to consider the potential academic and practical value of adopting a perspective on energy publics as emergent and co-produced
UEA, 26 June 2013 A symposium on interdisciplinary modeling, its challenges, and future prospects. What are the opportunities for integrating the natural and social sciences, or quantitative and qualitative data, in environmental modelling?
University of Sussex, May 2012 Drew together thirty-six experts in grassroots innovations to discuss their work studying community-based solutions for sustainable development across a range of sectors including food, energy, housing, finance, governance and consumption.
UEA London, March 2012. A panel discussion provided a timely opportunity to take a step back and reflect on recent developments within UK community energy and on their longer-term implications.
Norwich, March 2012. Draws on insights from a range of social science perspectives to undertake a system wide exploration of the range, modes and sites of participation in low carbon transitions.
UEA, January 2012. Professor Sheila Jasanoff, one of the world’s leading scholars in the study of the relationship between science and society, helped launched this 3S research group with a public lecture.