{"id":3473,"date":"2017-05-25T12:46:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T11:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:13:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:13:49","slug":"nature-journal-features-dr-zhangs-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2017\/05\/25\/nature-journal-features-dr-zhangs-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature journal features Dr Zhang&#8217;s research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 25 May issue of <em>Nature<\/em> features Dr Joy Zhang\u2019s commentary on the state of Chinese governance of scientific research, \u2018Transparency Is a Growth Industry\u2019. China is currently the world\u2019s second largest investor on scientific research and is increasingly seen as an advantageous destination for scientific powers, such as the UK to forge sustained research collaborations. Drawing on her research on Chinese scientific governance in the past 12 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/w-z\/zhang-joy.html\">Dr Zhang<\/a> highlighted a welcoming shift of attitudes towards scientific communication and public engagement among Chinese scientific elites. Dr Zhang further mapped out key domestic and international factors that prompted such change but she also cautioned that a \u2018coordinated structural and cultural change\u2019 is needed within Chinese institutions for China to establish public engagement that matches its scientific ambition.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Zhang was invited to write this contribution based on her current ESRC project, \u2018Governing Scientific Accountability in China\u2019, and on her 2015 publication in which she identified the \u2018credibility paradox\u2019 phenomena underlying Chinese scientific controversies. That is, as formal science communication channels are often closely tied to the vindication of development agendas, it undermines the public\u2019s perception of the credibility of science, and promotes an erroneous perception among scientists that they are (politically) \u2019unqualified\u2019 to contribute to public outreach.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full commentary can be accessed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v545\/n7655_supp\/full\/545S65a.html\">journal&#8217;s website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Full paper on the \u2018Credibility Paradox\u2019 phenomena can be accessed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4595815\/\">National Center for Biotechnology Information&#8217;s website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>See also the Governing Scientific Accountability in China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/gsa\/\">project website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 25 May issue of Nature features Dr Joy Zhang\u2019s commentary on the state of Chinese governance of scientific research, \u2018Transparency Is a Growth Industry\u2019. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2017\/05\/25\/nature-journal-features-dr-zhangs-research\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":3476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43783,124,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}