Kate Weatherford Darling, joins SJRC as Assistant Director of Research and Academic Programs
Katherine (Kate) Weatherford Darling is a sociologist working across the boundaries of the sociology of health, illness and disability, and feminist science studies. Kate is currently a Doctoral Candidate at UC San Francisco. She first joined the Science and Justice Research Center as a Visiting Scholar and a Graduate Student Researcher in 2015 and worked with the SJRC team to plan the Just Data? conference held May 2016 at UCSC. Continue Reading Kate Weatherford Darling, joins SJRC as Assistant Director of Research and Academic Programs
Call for Undergraduate Individual Study (2016-2017)
The SJRC will host up to 4 Individual Study students to collaborate on research papers and proposals as well as Center events and programming for the academic year. Students can also work on senior thesis projects related to Center Themes (Genomics, Data Justice, Climate Justice) and/or assist SJRC Graduate Training Program Fellows in planning… Continue Reading Call for Undergraduate Individual Study (2016-2017)
SJTP fellow awarded AAUW fellowship
Congratulations to Science and Justice Training Program Fellow and past Graduate Student Researcher, Lizzy Hare (Anthropology), for being awarded a 2016-2017 fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Read the full story here. More on Lizzy’s research can be found here.
How can health equity be ensured in the age of precision medicine?
Managing big biodata and health equity were some of the hot issues debated at Just Data? Justice, Knowledge and Care in an Age of Precision Medicine, a collaborative meeting to shape the science and justice agenda in the age precision medicine. Read the full story here.
Conference to explore questions of precision medicine, bio-data, and ethics
Leaders in genomics, health and informatics, civil rights, bioethics, indigenous rights, science policy, and the social study of health and medicine will gather at UC Santa Cruz this week for a workshop that aims to broaden the public discussion of big data and health. Continue Reading Conference to explore questions of precision medicine, bio-data, and ethics
Job Announcement: SJRC Assistant Director
The Science and Justice Research Center (SJRC) announces an Assistant Director of Research and Academic Programs position. Continue Reading Job Announcement: SJRC Assistant Director
New technology, but familiar problems
An interdisciplinary event hosted by the Center for Analytical Finance and the Science and Justice Research Center discussed the historical and social problems in tech and finance. more here.
Jenny Reardon and SJRC appear in Le Monde
Jenny Reardon, professor of sociology and director of the Science and Justice Research Center at UCSC interviewed in the French daily newspaper Le Monde. Continue Reading Jenny Reardon and SJRC appear in Le Monde
Genomics and Society Graduate Research Fellowship
The fellowship includes a graduate student fellowship stipend at a graduate student researcher rate plus a research allowance of $800 per year to cover supplies and travel to one relevant academic meeting or research site. The fellowship is guaranteed for the first year, and it may or may not be renewed for subsequent years. Continue Reading Genomics and Society Graduate Research Fellowship
“Science & Justice: The Trouble and the Promise” published in Catalyst
The article “Science & Justice: The Trouble and the Promise,” co-written by Jenny Reardon, Jacob Metcalf, Martha Kenney, Karen Barad has just been published in the inaugural issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience, a new STS journal supporting theoretically inventive and methodologically creative scholarship incorporating approaches from critical public health, disability studies, postcolonial studies, queer theory, sci-art,… Continue Reading “Science & Justice: The Trouble and the Promise” published in Catalyst