Game launch! Sin Sol / No Sun by micha cárdenas
About the Game Created by the UCSC Critical Realities Studio Sin Sol / No Sun is an augmented reality game that allows users to experience the feelings of a climate change event, in order to deeply consider how climate change disproportionately effects immigrants, trans people and disabled people. Players can find, see and hear a story… Continue Reading Game launch! Sin Sol / No Sun by micha cárdenas
Giving Day fundraiser for Science & Justice Training Program
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 All-Day Join the Science & Justice Research Center at UC Santa Cruz on Wednesday September 30th, for Giving Day, a 24-hour online fundraising drive! Help us celebrate the 10 year anniversary of our Science & Justice Training Program (SJTP) by supporting our graduate student researchers through the Science & Justice campaign. Incentives to… Continue Reading Giving Day fundraiser for Science & Justice Training Program
Royal Geographical Society publishes special COVID-19 issue
A virtual special issue of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers features Politics Professor and S&J Advisor Matt Sparke’s article, “Contextualizing Coronavirus Geographically,” and provides free access to additional articles that provide perspective on the pandemic. More in this campus news article, “Royal Geographical Society publishes special COVID-19 issue.”
Social Sciences Research Council Insights: V is for Veracity
According to Jenny Reardon, professor of sociology and the founding director of the Science and Justice Research Center, creating trust-worthy knowledge that can foster a more just world requires attending to both COVID-19 pandemic and the deep inequalities and fissures in the polity that this pandemic has laid bare. Read more in this Social Sciences… Continue Reading Social Sciences Research Council Insights: V is for Veracity
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“.