Help Inform Policy Involving science & technology
Sciencewise-ERC welcomes your interest and involvement in our work. You can get involved and influence public policy involving science and technology by:
- taking part in our brand new forum debating new ideas, expressing ideas and opinions on the world of public dialogue and policy involving science and technology
- signing up to receive Sciencewise-ERC news updates, details of new dialogue projects, invitations to take part in consultations on science and technology topics, latest forum threads and events to attend. Click here to register
- prioritising and suggesting topics for future public dialogues
- finding out more about public dialogue
What do you think are the issues that need URGENT public debate?
Sciencewise-ERC has worked with over 12,000 public participants, providing feedback to policy makers through face-to-face meetings and reports, summarising the public views, concerns and aspirations. The feedback gained has helped influence policy priorities and has enabled progress to be made on strategically significant, sometimes highly contentious topics by supporting policy makers to find ways forward that avoid conflict and entrenched positions.
We want to expand our reach further and invite you to help identify the controversial or far reaching policies involving Science and Technology, which would benefit from public debate.
Forum
- Engineered biological structures
- Can dialogue affect behaviour
- Is intelligence predetermined by our genetic coding
- What do drugs do to the brain
- Bioresources for sustainable food and energy
- Solar Cars on a Mission
- Science futures
- Unraveling genome secrets
- Patient involvement in health care decisions
- Research into who reads Science blogs
Blog
You can find latest news updates available on our blog.
- Synthetic biology: machine or life?
- Gene genie: Lone Frank’s ‘My Beautiful Genome’ at the Dana Centre
- Communities reducing carbon emissions
- Should we limit family size in the UK?
- Tricky Questions
- Living with Environmental ChangePublic support for environmental change research
- ‘Doughnut of dialogue’
- Living with Environmental Change – Citizen’s Advisory Forum Flood Risk – Perceptions and Priorities.
- A new centre for science and enterprise in Oxford
- Ladock and Grampound Road, Participant Blog No 2
Your suggestions
Your views on which policy areas involving science and technology would most benefit from public dialogue.
- How do we move forward with greener energy?
- Discussion/understanding about genetically modified food
- How should we respond to golbal warming?
- How far do you go to keep people alive?
- Future energy provision
- Gene research
- Nuclear power
- Space exploration and life on mars
- The role of vaccines in improving the nations health
To find out more or make your own suggestion click here