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4th CESAGen/CSG International Conference: Genetics and Society - Retrospects and Prospects

Event: Conference
Date: 26 Mar 2007 09:00
End date: 28 Mar 2007 13:00


Speaker(s):

Paul Atkinson

Nik Brown

Ruth Chadwick

Herbert Gottweis

Paul Martin

Mike Michael

Gil Omenn

Dame Julia Polak

Martin Richards

Glyn Stacey

Andrew Webster

Lord Robert Winston

Steve Yearley

Michael Yesley

Organised by:

Conference Organising Committee

Mel Evans (Cardiff)

Peter Glasner (Co-Chair - Cardiff)

Helen Greenslade (Conference Secretary - Cardiff)

Joan Haran (Co-Chair - Cardiff)

Paul McCarthy (Lancaster)

Ruth McNally (Cardiff)

Annemiek Nelis (Nijmegen)

Kate Wright (Lancaster)

Venue: The Royal Society, London,

This conference will provide an opportunity for the genomics social science community to take stock and celebrate its successes. Through reviewing the findings of research undertaken to date it will question what has been discovered, the implications of these results, and the new questions they raise. We aim to engage associated stakeholders and policy makers in debating in a dialogue about the future direction of social science research.

There will be international plenary and keynote speakers discussing:

• Engaging stakeholders in social science research
• Policies for sustainability
• Media representations

Other key themes will include:

• Changing forms of knowledge production
• Public engagement with the biosciences
• Health, medicine and genomics
• Multiple bio-economies

This will be a conference of high profile public speeches, round tables, outreach events and an academic programme. It will also include the launch of the Routledge: ‘Genetics and Society’ Book Series

Further details: Registration

Deadline for registration is 28 February 2007. To register please download and complete the registration form (word doc) and return to Helen Greenslade.

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