Professor Michael Calnan has recently co-authored a new paper, Understanding Disruption in the Social Contract between the Medical Profession and Society in India. Drawing on … Read more

On the evening of Thursday 16 October, Dr Oliver Pritchard-Moore delivered an invited talk on public engagement in plant engineering biology at the Securing the Future … Read more

We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting a joint staff seminar of the Centre for Global Science and Epistemic Justice (GSEJ) and … Read more

GSEJ Director Professor Joy Y. Zhang delivered a keynote address at the 2025 Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit at CERN, an event focused on … Read more

On 29–30 September 2025, the Centre for Global Science and Epistemic Justice (GSEJ) hosted A New Odyssey for Public Engagement at the British Academy. This … Read more

We congratulate Dr Peter Boffoe on the successful completion of his PhD in Applied Health at the University of Kent. A qualified social worker with … Read more

Wellcome has awarded £10 million to the new Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) to develop foundational tools, technologies, and methods that could one day enable … Read more

Dr Jennifer Leigh, a founding member of GSEJ, has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2025 Inclusion and Diversity Prize. The prestigious honour recognises … Read more

Originally published at: https://www.kent.ac.uk/news/society/36682/future-proofing-societys-use-of-synthetic-biology-in-plant-science by Emily Collins Kent sociologist, Professor Joy Y. Zhang, has been awarded a £1.88 million grant from the Advanced Research + … Read more

The Sociological Review recently published the study ‘Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care‘, co-authored by Prof Dawn … Read more