Internship opportunity: Mapping ‘participation’ in radiation protection – Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK•CEN
Location: Mol, Belgium Hours: Full Time Contract: Fixed-Term 3 month traineeship Placed On: 6th December 2018 Closes: 14th January 2019 This is an exciting opportunity for a MA student in social sciences / humanities to map and review participatory practices in radiation protection, a subfield in nuclear science and technology. The aims of your research will be to: i) clarify why, when and how stakeholders engage in radiation...
2018 Ethics Week VUB
From 4 to 7 December, the VUB is hosting an Ethics Week for researchers. Ethics Week offers a series of events around ethical themes that are of interest to younger and more experienced researchers, and to its research policy makers. For more information and to register: http://www.vub.ac.be/weekvandeethiek/
CfP TILTing Perspectives 2019 – Tilburg
Urbanization, migration, platformization, digitalization, smartification, datafication, economic integration and, climate mitigation and adaptation. There is a common denominator to each and every one of these concepts: Change. A transition from a given ‘old’ to an unknown or uncertain ‘new’. Change itself is closely related to technology. Change may be the intended result of the application of a technology, or it may be one of its...
Lecture RRI and genome editing for congenital deafness – Stevienna de Saille at KULeuven
On June 22 Stevienna de Saille (Research Fellow in the Institute for the Study of the Human at the University of Sheffield, UK) will give a lecture on ‘Applying ‘Responsible Research and Innovation’ to genome editing for congenital deafness: questions and conundrums’. ABSTRACT Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is a policy framework advocating attention to the development of new technologies, particularly to the potentially...
CfP 2018 Ricomet Conference Antwerp
The fourth RICOMET conference on Social Science and Humanities (SSH) in Ionising Radiation Research takes place in Antwerp, Belgium 13th to 15th of June 2018. This edition is scientifically oriented towards supporting SSH researchers to identify good research practices, address challenges in multidisciplinary research, review and suggest methods and build towards a common understanding of SSH research related to ionizing radiation....
