Genomics Policy and Research Forum - Conferences - Mapping the Genomic Era: Measurements and Meanings - Public engagement and science studies

Conferences

Mapping the Genomic Era: Measurements and Meanings

Event: Conference
Date: 07 Oct 2009 00:00
Start date: 07 Oct 2009 00:00
End date: 09 Oct 2009 00:00

** PAST EVENT **EGN Conference 2009 Report

EGN Conference Title

Organised by: Cesagen on behalf of the ESRC Genomics Network

Conference Poster

This conference in the EGN series provided an opportunity to develop further the debate and dialogue around current and future developments in the life sciences, between academics working in a broad range of social science disciplines and associated stakeholders, including natural and biomedical scientists and policymakers.

The overarching theme of the conference sought to consider how and where ‘measurements’ of different kinds are at stake, for example:

The difficulties in producing common scientific, political, economic and social measures
How the abstraction of measuring transforms the object to be measured
How measurement can add to meaning and knowledge and/or detract from it
The hidden costs of precision
Consequences of particular forms of measurement for various groups and individuals
Statistical power in relation to genome wide association studies, epidemiology, and their application in biobanking projects and personal genomics
Measurement of the impact of research

The conference also examined the contexts in which ‘meanings’ are mediated, discussed and produced, such as in policy making, governance of science and technology, through clinical applications, and within different academic disciplines, public engagement efforts, civil society, activist communities, social movements, the media etc

Full Programme

Highlights

Keynote Speakers:

Nobel Prize Winner Professor Sir Martin Evans, Cardiff University
Professor Joan Fujimura, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Paul Martin, University of Nottingham
Professor Douglas Turnbull, Newcastle University
Dr. Huanming Yang, Beijing Genomics Institute

After Dinner Speaker:

Welsh Legend J.P.R. Williams

Policy Engagement Session in collaboration with the Society for Genomics Policy and Population Health:

Thursday 8 October, 14:15 - 16:00

Genomics: Translation into Public Health Policy

Workshops:

These workshops all took place on Thursday 8 October, 11.45 - 13.15

Further details:

Contact:
Mel Evans, Cesagen, Cardiff University, 6 Museum Place, Cardiff, CF10 3BG
Tel: +44 (0)29 20870024
Email: cesagenevents@cardiff.ac.uk

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