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Day 3- Newton Researcher Links Workshop

After two days of intensive examination and cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary dialogues, we believed that a better science dialogue was possible. So during the final day of the Beijing workshop on Promoting Social Embeddedness of New Biotechnologies, we tried to come up with … Continue reading

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Day 2- Newton Researcher Links Workshop

After mappings out the tools and resources on the first day, day 2 of this Beijing workshop moved onto the practicals. In the morning, we had three consecutive sessions of ‘the Anatomy of An Idea’. A few participants pitch their idea on … Continue reading

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Day 1- Newton Researcher Links Workshop

On 14 October 2019, our interdisciplinary workshop, ‘Promoting Social Embeddedness of New Biotechnologies:Co-Developing Public Engagement in and with China’  began! Coordinated by Dr. Joy Zhang (University of Kent, PI), Prof. Xian-En Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, PI),  Prof. Mark Smales … Continue reading

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Call for Participants: UK-China Interdisciplinary Workshop for Early Career Researchers

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS UK-China Interdisciplinary Workshop for Early Career Researchers Promoting Social Embeddedness of New Biotechnologies Beijing, China 14-16 October, 2019 China is the UK’s key partner and co-funder in the biosciences. Collaborative projects with China have substantially shaped policy … Continue reading

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Policy Impact in China

On 3 January 2019, Ministry of Science and Technology in China has officially accepted Dr. Joy Zhang’s policy recommendations on increasing transparency and public accountability of Chinese science and have circulated these recommendations in their Neican. ‘Neican’ refers to valued policy submissions … Continue reading

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2019 Workshop Announcement

We are delighted to announce that in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, we are to host a 3-day interdisciplinary workshop in October 2019. We aim to bring together and empower a new generation of bioscientists and social scientists … Continue reading

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GSA-China at the International Summit

Dr. Joy Zhang was invited to deliver two talks on key findings from this ESRC project at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing. Dr. Zhang first expressed her concern over a ‘public engagement-deficit’ in China’s rise as a … Continue reading

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Invited Lecture at China’s Ministry of Science and Technology

Later in October, Dr Joy Zhang gave a lecture to staff at China’s Ministry of Science and Technology at the invitation of CASTED, the Ministry’s research arm. The lecture, titled ’The Comopolitanization of Science and the Search for a “Chinese … Continue reading

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UK-China Dialogue at GSA-China’s Concluding Conference 

On 22 and 23 February, we held a second international conference of this ESRC project at the British Academy. 30 delegates who are leading figures in their respective fields in China and the UK joined the discussion. The event featured … Continue reading

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Project Report Released

A report on the key findings, outputs and deliverables of this research project can be accessed here: GSA-Project-Report  

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