Sixth annual Celsius Symposium on Science and Society
Interdisciplinary experiences - collaborations and collisions
Friday 10 June 2011, 9am to 4pm, The Helix Gallery, Dublin City University
This symposium will explore incentives and inhibitions to collaborations in higher education and research between the natural sciences and engineering, on the one hand, and social sciences and humanities, on the other. A point of departure for this exploration is that many of the most pressing social issues and most engaging intellectual issues have a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary aspect.
The keynote speaker, Prof Brian Wynne (Lancaster University) is a pioneer in social studies of science with a long record of research and publication on issues in science governance. His most recent work has focused on social issues in biotechnology and genetics.
Draft programme
9.00 – 11.00 Interdisciplinarity and Pedagogy
Eilish McLaughlin (DCU School of Physics): Developing a module in Interdisciplinary Science
Lynn Scarff (TCD Science Gallery): The Future of Water – the Idea Translation Lab
Richard O’Kennedy (DCU Vice-President for Learning Innovation): Science in the courtroom – forensics, role-play and undergraduate education
Brian Trench (DCU School of Communications): Science communication – the evolution of a new academic subject
Chair: Marguerite Barry, DCU
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 1.00 Synergies between disciplines
Pat Brereton (DCU School of Communications, Associate Dean of Research for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) and Stephen Daniels (DCU School of Electronic Engineering): New research approaches for sustainability
Enrico Marsili (DCU School of Biotechnology) and Padraig Murphy (DCU School of Communications): A dialogical life cycle approach for nanotechnology?
Siobhan O’Sullivan (former scientific director, Irish Council for Bioethics, and member, European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies): Research ethics and bioethics – where disciplines meet
Chair: Juliana Adelman, TCD
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.15 Keynote address
Brian Wynne (Lancaster University): Lay expertise in governance of food biotechnology
Chair: Padraig Murphy
3.15 – 4.00 Concluding panel session
Chair: Brian Trench
The Celsius group wishes to acknowledge the support of the Office of Vice President of Research and the Office of Vice President of Learning Innovation