Towards STS Networking in the Asia-Pacific Region

STS Workshop, Wellington, December 2008

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Presentations:

 Sustainable collaborative research (Mary Allan, University of Canterbury, NZ)

 The GM debate, social responsibility and the New Zealand press (Doug Ashwell, Massey University, NZ)

 Reflecting on boundary dynamics in a case study setting: insights from systemic intervention & STS (Virginia Baker & Wendy Gregory, ESR, NZ)

 Channel automation technology: emergent trajectories and social perspectives (Brent Collett, University of Melbourne, Australia (Presenter))

 Thinking about some problems in current STS education (Chen Fan & Ma Huidan, Northeastern University, P.R. China)

 Towards social scientific citizenship (Rosemary Du Plessis, University of Canterbury, NZ, Richard Hindmarsh, Griffith University, Australia, & Karen Cronin, ESR, NZ)

 "Guess who's coming to dinner!": bringing stakeholders to the table for early engagement around future food technologies (Karen Cronin, ESR, NZ)

 'Science, Technology and Society' (STS) studies in New Zealand (Karen Cronin, ESR, NZ)

 The New Zealand public's response to insect-pest eradication technologies (Joanna Gamble, PFR, NZ (Presenter))

 It it's just 'talk' why don't we just do politics? (Stephen Healy, University of New South Wales, Australia)

 Deliberative speak at the turbine face: community engagement and wind farms in Australia (Richard Hindmarsh, Griffith University, Australia (Presenter))

 QCA and ANT: complementing qualitative comparative analysis using actor network theory (Simon J Lambert, Lincoln University, NZ)

 'STS impact assessment': reflections on the impact of STS expertise in legal and regulatory settings involving controversial science (David Mercer, University of Wollongong, Australia)

 Science talk: what the public want (Judy Motion, University of Wollongong, Australia)

 The moral responsibilities of science in society: a qualitative investigation of scientists' attitudes (Bruce Small, AgResearch, NZ)

 The WaiVotua project: linking water and health in Votua, Fiji (Ann Winstanley, ESR, NZ (Presenter))

 A common sense methodology for STS studies (Amanda Wolf, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ)

 Discourse and practices of "STS" in Asia (Tomiko Yamaguchi, International Christian University, Japan)

 Reporting the facts or creating controversies? (Tomiko Yamaguchi, International Christian University, Japan)

 So you can make fuel from water? Science and the politics of hoax (Sulfikar Amir, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

 Meanings of forensic DNA evidence in New Zealand (Johanna Veth, ESR, NZ (Presenter)) - abstract

 A values-based framework for effective interactions between scientists and Maori (Stephen Tauwhare, IRL, NZ (Presenter))