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Deliberating Concepts of Quality & Developing Robust Science for Policy

This application seeks funding to support Professor Brian Wynne to work as a visiting researcher at GenØk Centre for Biosafety for a period of 4 months in early 2013. As a visiting researcher, Prof. Wynne would work within the integrated research project NanoEcotoxEthics (203288/S10) funded by the ELSA (Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects) programme. The collaborative research to be conducted during Prof. Wynne's visit is part of work package 2 of the NanoEcotoxEthics project, titled: Ecotoxicology: Develop ing Robust Science for Policy. In work package 2, the intention is to subject scientific research on the use of nanoparticles for environmental remediation to critical evaluation for its quality as science for policy. This critical evaluation is proposed to take place using the method of pedigree assessment. Pedigree assessment is put forward as a way to handle uncertainties in science for policy through highlighting choices and assumptions involved in scientific research and subjecting these to deliberat ive negotiation. A broad-based deliberative process involving various perspectives and stakeholders tests the strength and quality of evidence for decision making by exploring how it can be differentially framed and/or interpreted and the degree of suppor t particular choices and assumptions have within different communities. Performing a pedigree assessment of the available science for nanoremediation policy will occur through an interactive workshop involving various stakeholders, disciplines and perspec tives. It is primarily in the planning of this workshop and the analysis of its results that the assistance of Prof. Wynne is seen as offering significant benefit to the NanoEcotoxEthics project. Prof. Wynne is a world-renowned scholar in science and tech nology studies (STS) and has specific expertise in organizing and analyzing multi-stakeholder deliberative processes and extensive international publications on developing robust science for policy.

Prosjektleder:
Fern Wickson
Institusjon:
Instituttsektor/Forskningsparken/GenØk - Senter for biosikkerhe
Aktivitetsnavn:
Etiske,rettslige og samf.m. as
Prosjektstatus:
Bevilgning
Prosjektperiode:
01.02.2013 - 30.06.2013
Geografi:
Norge/HORDALAND/BERGEN
Fagområder:
Samfunnsvitenskap/Tverr flerfag. samf.vit. o.a.
Prosjektnummer:
225566