Why and How Bioethics Must Turn toward Justice: A Modest Proposal
As part of The Hastings Center Special Report Volume 50, Issue S1 of For “All of Us”? On the Weight of Genomic Knowledge, SJRC Founding Director and Professor of Sociology Jenny Reardon published an article on Why and How Bioethics Must Turn toward Justice: A Modest Proposal.
COVID-19 Pandemicene Zine
Students in Director Jenny Reardon’s undergraduate independent study seminar, SOCY 194: Living and Learning in a Pandemic: The Sociology of COVID-19, have co-created a zine based on everyone’s unique quarantine experiences and interests in understanding local responses to the pandemic! Full design credit and our special thanks go to Kathia Damian (Literature)! COVID-19 Blogs Here,… Continue Reading COVID-19 Pandemicene Zine
Spring 2020 Undergraduate Student Researcher Opportunity
The Science & Justice Research Center is pleased to announce we are now accepting applications for a: Undergraduate Research Fellowship The award presents a paid research opportunity to first-generation, low income, under-represented groups, undocumented, and/or former foster youth. The award is intended as a stipend to support general living expenses, fieldwork or travel (as allowed… Continue Reading Spring 2020 Undergraduate Student Researcher Opportunity
SJRC Response to COVID-19
COVID-19: The Pandemicene Due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, UC Santa Cruz, like many other higher education institutions, announced the suspension of in-person instruction, lectures and discussion sections through the full spring quarter, including all labs, studios, field research, and field study courses. Now, with many communities ordered to stay-in-place, with only essential business allowed… Continue Reading SJRC Response to COVID-19
Announcing 2020-2021 SJTP Fellows
Started in 2010 with a grant from the National Science Foundation, the Science & Justice Training Program (SJTP) celebrates its 10th anniversary and welcomes a new cohort! Now more than ever the SJTP provides critical skills for addressing problems of our times, whether ecological destruction, growing inequalities, or a global pandemic. These are problems that… Continue Reading Announcing 2020-2021 SJTP Fellows
Discrimination, governance, and trust in the age of COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic has upended daily life around the world, and is simultaneously triggering challenging questions of discrimination, governance, and trust, says Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Science & Justice Research Center Jenny Reardon. More in this campus news article, “Discrimination, governance, and trust in the age of COVID-19“.
COVID-19: Open Letters
The SJRC has a robust network of local and international public health experts, scholars, and practitioners leading the way with collecting resources for teaching about COVID-19, writing open response letters, developing news items, and calls for action, and organizing and participating in online events. Help Spread the Word of These Open Letters Achieving A Fair and Effective… Continue Reading COVID-19: Open Letters
COVID-19: Calls-For-Action
The SJRC has a robust network of local and international public health experts, scholars, and practitioners leading the way with collecting resources for teaching about COVID-19, writing open response letters, developing news items, and calls for action, and organizing and participating in online events. Help Spread the Word of These Calls for Action In a New… Continue Reading COVID-19: Calls-For-Action