Guardian blog

[Spike (Chris Foote)]

From: alice bell <alicer...@googlemail.com>

Some of you may have seen the science policy blog we launched at the
Guardian a few months ago.

I'm keen to use it as a space where we can share and discuss academic
expertise on this area. The Guardian are worried it'll be "too
academic" so it's a bit of a juggle, especially as we find our feet
but we've had great articles from Sheila Jasanoff, Andy Stirling and
Jon Agar recently (linked to below) and I'd love more.

So, if any of you want to write something, let me know. And do pass
this on. PhD students to Profs, doesn't matter. Pitch me an idea and
we'll see if/ how it might work. A blog format means we can be
reasonably flexible, but I generally say 900 ish words, on something
reasonably topical about the governance of science, with links and
written for a non-specialist but interested reader. Some background on
the whole idea here might help, or just have a poke around at what's
already published:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/feb/13/political-science-guardian-bloggers

Worth saying that we only get v small bit of of ad revenue for
Guardian for it, which goes to a pot for public engagement work held
at UCL STS department. So we can't pay - it'd be for fun/ public
engagement only (and yes, I know this is problematic... wasn't
something I entered into lightly).

Also, I'm an editor at New Left Project in my spare time, and happy to
take longer, more scholarly essays/ book reviews for that too. This
allows you to get out of science bubble, but is limited more
politically ("left" there meaning "of UK Labour"). A couple examples
below with the Guardian stuff.

Alice

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Dr Alice R Bell. Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex.
http://alicerosebell.wordpress.com/
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* Andy Stirling - Fear of flying and the hazards of communicating risk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/feb/14/fear-flying-hazards-communicating-risk
* Jon Agar - Was Margaret Thatcher's ideology rooted in her experience
as a scientist?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/apr/09/margaret-thatcher-ideology-scientist
* Sheila Jasanoff - Watching the watchers: lessons from the science of
science advice
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/apr/08/lessons-science-advice
* Christopher Shaw - What Zombie Films Can Teach Us About Climate
Change
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/what_zombie_films_can_teach_us_about_climate_change
* William Davies - Apologists for Power
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/apologists_for_power
* Alice Bell - A Life of Galileo: What Brecht can teach us about the
public ownership of science
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/a_life_of_galileo
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