The EU-funded Human Brain Project (HBP) aimed to deliver advances in brain science, cognitive neuroscience and brain-inspired computing which would have broad-ranging implications benefit European citizens. Achieving such outcomes is dependent, part, upon the ability of large scale research projects anticipate potential needs concerns user communities as well other stakeholders society general integrate these into their programme. While responsibility address them belongs all those directing...

Here I examine the potential for art-science collaborations to be basis deliberative discussions on research agendas and direction. Responsible Research Innovation (RRI) has become a science policy goal in synthetic biology several other high-profile areas of scientific research. While offer engage both publics scientists thus possess facilitate desired "mutual responsiveness" (René von Schomberg) between researchers, institutional actors, various stakeholders, there are challenges...

The imagination of possible scientific futures has a colourful history interaction with research agendas and public expectations. 2017 annual UK Science in Public conference included panel discussing this. Emphasizing fiction as method for engaging mapping the influence futures, this discussed role science historically, attitudes to artificial intelligence, its potential engagement between researchers publics. communication creating mutually responsive dialogue communities publics about...

Abstract Increased funding of nanotechnology research in the USA at turn millennium was paired with a legislative commitment to and novel societal policy for responsible development nanotechnology. Innovative discourses time suggested that such work could engage variety publics, stakeholders, researchers enhance capacity systems adapt be responsive values concerns. This article reviews one two federally funded social science centers—the Center Nanotechnology Society Arizona State...

Abstract This article looks at the creation of a network researchers social issues in nanotechnology and role Center for Nanotechnology Society Arizona State University (CNS-ASU) this network. The extent to which CNS-ASU is associated with development research around study examined through geographic mapping co-authors citations center publications, analysis papers on nanotechnology, disciplinary these papers. results indicate that there an extensive co-authorships among studying In...

Abstract Begun in the summer of 1923, Silent Valley Reservoir was first large scale civil engineering project after division between North and South Ireland. It continuation a previous project. In late Nineteenth Century portion Kilkeel Annalong Rivers Mourne Mountains had been diverted 35 miles to provide water for growing industrial city Belfast A reservoir mountains also planned at later date but this delayed by Great War then Irish political instability high cost construction immediate...

Journal Article Institutional economics for a discipline at sea Capitalism and Democracy: A Fragile Alliance by Theo van de Klundert Get access Edward Elgar , Cheltenham, UK 2013 240 pages, £75.00, ISBN 9781781956151 Michael Reinsborough Center Nanotechnology Society, Arizona State University, Interdisciplinary B Room 366, 1120 S. Candy Mall, Tempe AZ, 85287-5603, USA also the Department of Social Sciences Health Medicine, King’s College London, London D11, East Wing, Strand Campus, Strand,...