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)
Book release! Teaching Environmental Justice: Practices to Engage Students and Build Community (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023)
About the Book This ground-breaking book explores ways to integrate environmental justice modules into courses across a wide variety of disciplines. Recommending accessible, flexible, and evidence-based pedagogical approaches designed by a multidisciplinary team of scholars, it centers equity and justice in student learning and course design and presents a model for faculty development that can… Continue Reading Book release! Teaching Environmental Justice: Practices to Engage Students and Build Community (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023)
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)