Science and Social Justice: Jenny Reardon featured on Digital Science
Professor Jenny Reardon, Professor of Sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz, and the Founder of Science and Justice Research Center on the politicization of research. Continue Reading Science and Social Justice: Jenny Reardon featured on Digital Science
Publication: new “Race and Health” entry in Oxford Bibliographies
Sociology Associate Professor and SJRC Co-Director James Doucet-Battle publishes a new “Race and Health” entry in Oxford Bibliographies. The selected bibliography offers a genealogy of scholarship on the topic over the last century and a half. Continue Reading Publication: new “Race and Health” entry in Oxford Bibliographies
A conjunctural analysis of the origins of ‘embedded ELSI’ in U.S. genomic medicine
SJRC’s LEED of STEMM published a new article! The paper, “A conjunctural analysis of the origins of ‘embedded ELSI’ in U.S. genomic medicine” is available open access from The Journal of Responsible Innovation. It calls for an embedded approach, where ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) researchers are situated within larger scientific research studies. Learn… Continue Reading A conjunctural analysis of the origins of ‘embedded ELSI’ in U.S. genomic medicine
Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020
SJRC’s Just Biomedicine Research Group published an article in Social Studies of Science examining how the logics of speculative revitalization imagine a future in which cities and biomedicine produce wealth and health harmoniously together. Continue Reading Cells and the city: The rise and fall of urban biopolitics in San Francisco, 1970–2020
Summer 2024 Graduate Student Researcher Opportunity (PAID)
Together with The University of Alberta, Canada, the Science & Justice Research Center is now accepting applications for a Graduate Student Researcher. Continue Reading Summer 2024 Graduate Student Researcher Opportunity (PAID)
SJRC Annual Report 2022-2023
Volume 16 Director’s Letter: Welcome to Science & Justice As we look forward to the year to come, we appreciate the chance to share with you our accomplishments of the last year. Science & Justice continues to be in the headlines, making a critical difference in California, the nation and globally. This year our faculty… Continue Reading SJRC Annual Report 2022-2023
Winter 2024 Graduate Student Researcher Opportunity (PAID)
The Science & Justice Research Center and the SNU in the World Program are now accepting applications for a Graduate Student Research Fellow. Continue Reading Winter 2024 Graduate Student Researcher Opportunity (PAID)
publication: An autoethnographic assessment of a manifesto for more trustworthy, relevant, and just models
Melissa Eitzel Solera, now with the Center for Community and Citizen Science at UC Davis has published a new journal article and was awarded a grant by UC Davis’ Global Affairs program to build on past work with The Muonde Trust. Continue Reading publication: An autoethnographic assessment of a manifesto for more trustworthy, relevant, and just models
The Science History Institute’s Distillations, Innate: “The Vampire Project”
Sociology Professor Jenny Reardon, founding director of the Science & Justice Research Center at UC Santa Cruz, was featured in podcast episode 4 of the ‘Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race’ a project exploring the historical roots and persistent legacies of racism in American science and medicine. Listen to or read the transcript… Continue Reading The Science History Institute’s Distillations, Innate: “The Vampire Project”
Call for Undergraduate Individual Study (apply by March 8)
The Science & Justice Research Center (SJRC) invites undergraduate students to apply as researchers for the Spring 2023 term. The SJRC will host up to 2 Individual Study students to collaborate on the LEED research project. The Individual Study course, can range from 2-5 units, be independent or group and will include directed readings, guided… Continue Reading Call for Undergraduate Individual Study (apply by March 8)