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Tag Archives: public engagement

What does “the public” look like? Protest, power, and erasure at COP26

New 3S PhD researcher Cat Acheson shares her perspective on the role and policing of publics at COP26. COP26 has been widely portrayed as a make-or-break moment for global efforts to prevent catastrophic climate change. During the first week of the conference, I joined protests on the ground in Glasgow, with a diverse coalition of…

November 26, 2021 in Climate Change.

Advertised PhD projects in 3S

There are 4 competition funded PhD projects advertised at UEA with researchers from the 3S group. MAPPING PARTICIPATION IN ENERGY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND NET ZERO will be supervised by Dr Helen Pallett and Professor Jason Chilvers, and is part of the UEA Science Faculty funding competition. To date, approaches to involving the public in decisions…

November 2, 2021 in Climate Change, Energy, News.

3S leads core part of £22 million UK Energy Research Centre

New funding announced today will see our 3S Research Group become a core part of the new five-year phase of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). As part of this significant investment 3S will establish and house the first ever national observatory for societal engagement with energy and net zero transitions, which is a new core…

February 18, 2020 in Climate Change, Energy, News, Participation and engagement, Policy and governance, Transitions to sustainability.

3S advises Climate Assembly UK

UK Parliament announced in a press release today that Professor Jason Chilvers of 3S has been appointed to serve on the Academic Panel advising Climate Assembly UK. Climate Assembly UK is the UK’s first nationwide citizens’ assembly on climate change. It was commissioned by six cross-party House of Commons Select Committees in summer 2019 in…

January 9, 2020 in Climate Change, Engagement and Impact, News, Participation and engagement.

FAB-GGR – Social and political dimensions of greenhouse gas removal

FAB-GGR is an interdisciplinary project that aims to better understand the real-world feasibility and consequences of large-scale afforestation and biomass energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) approaches to greenhouse gas removal (GGR). As part of FAB-GGR, 3S researchers – Jason Chilvers, Laurie Waller, Irene Lorenzoni – are studying the social and political feasibility of developing afforestation and…

October 22, 2019 in 3S strands, Climate Change, Current Projects, Knowledges and expertise, Participation and engagement, Policy and governance.

New report mapping UK energy participation

A new report has just been released as part of the UK Energy Research Centre project Remaking Energy Participation, which is being led by the 3S research group. This report was put together by 3S faculty members Helen Pallett, Jason Chilvers and Tom Hargreaves, and reports on a systematic mapping of public participation in UK…

May 5, 2017 in News.

Publics & participation in radioactive waste management seminar 9th-10th January

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’.

December 16, 2016 in 3S Events, News, Participation and engagement.

3S summer conference panels on relational and systemic participation

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…

May 24, 2016 in News.

Call for papers – Relational Geographies of Participation

See the call for papers below for a session at the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers’ Annual Conference in August 2016, organised by 3S members Jason Chilvers and Helen Pallett. Relational geographies of participation Organised by Jason Chilvers and Helen Pallett (3S Research Group, University of East Anglia, UK) For geographers…

February 10, 2016 in News.

Call for papers – Ecologies of participation: Thinking systemically about science and technology by other means

See the call for papers below for a closed session proposed by 3S members Jason Chilvers and Helen Pallett for the forthcoming 4S/EASST conference in Barcelona. 4S/EASST Conference Session, Barcelona, August 31 – September 3, 2016 Ecologies of participation: Thinking systemically about science and technology by other means Organised by Jason Chilvers and Helen Pallett…

February 9, 2016 in News.

3S at 4S

As part of the launch activities for their new Remaking Participation book Jason Chilvers of 3S and Matthew Kearnes are hosting two panel discussion sessions at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting in Denver on Saturday 14th November. The sessions will feature presentations from authors who have written chapters for the…

November 13, 2015 in News, Participation and engagement.

3S research report on UK Government organisational learning related to public participation published

The UK Government’s public dialogue body Sciencewise was the subject of 3S member Helen Pallett‘s PhD research into organisational learning from and about public participation. Helen’s PhD thesis is open access and available to download here, and she has also produced a short report on her findings and recommendations which is now available on the…

July 28, 2015 in Participation and engagement, Reports.

Making Energy Publics workshop report

The final report from the ‘Making Energy Publics’ workshop hosted by the 3S group last year is released today. The workshop brought together leading voices from Science and Technology Studies, Human Geography and Sociology to discuss the future of academic research into and engagement with the making of energy publics. The central argument of the…

February 26, 2015 in Participation and engagement, Reports.

3S WP 2012-06 Chilvers – Reflexive Engagement: Actors, Learning and Reflexivity in Participatory Governance of Science and Technology

This paper contributes to a more reflexive mode of research on public engagement with science- related issues through studying actors that mediate science-society interactions, their roles and relationships, and the nature and extent of learning and reflexivity, in participatory governance networks. A mapping framework is developed to describe the roles and relations of actors mediating…

December 4, 2014 in 3S working paper, Knowledges and expertise, Participation and engagement, Policy and governance, Publications.

3S WP 2012-04 Pallett – The (Re)publics of Science: Changing Policy and Participation

Changing visions of science and the characterization of scientific expertise have been co-produced with imaginations of ‘the public’ and its proper role in science policy-making. Since the middle of the twentieth century, visions of science as the product of an isolated community devoted to free intellectual inquiry have largely been replaced by the recognition both…

December 4, 2014 in 3S working paper, Knowledges and expertise, Participation and engagement, Publications.

Democracy, citizenship and anticipatory governance of science and technology

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,…

February 25, 2014 in 3S Events, Participation and engagement, Policy and governance, Reports.

Critical studies of public engagement in science and the environment

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…

February 25, 2014 in 3S Events, Participation and engagement, Reports.

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