At present, openness in science is more important than ever. This study sheds light on hidden or ignored aspects of openness as a core policy agenda. While the opening up of science to public scrutiny and public deliberation is good in principle, various complications arise from such exposure. Does the policy of openness need to be discussed more directly, and is it wrong to assume that openness can improve science's reputation in the public sphere? Developed as a solution to perceived crises in science-society relations, openness and transparency initiatives might hide 'monsters' that need to be made visible and critically examined. This book does exactly that by dealing with four key themes: the transparency of science in the public sphere; responsibility in contemporary research practice and governance; experts of policy-making, risk assessment and the regulation of science; and tensions of faith and misunderstanding between science and religion. Each section of the book contains an opening essay by experts on a particular theme including contributions from Mark Brown, Benjamin Worthy, Barbara Prainsack, Sabina Leonelli and Chris Toumey. The book closes with an epilogue by Stephen Turner and an essay by John Holmwood. This book should be of interest to academics and members of the public who want to know more about the challenges and opportunities of 'making science public', the theme of the Leverhulme Trust-funded research programme on which this book is based.
At present, openness in science is more important than ever. This study sheds light on hidden or ignored aspects of openness as a core policy agenda. While the opening up of science to public scrutiny and public deliberation is good in principle, various complications arise from such exposure. Does the policy of openness need to be discussed more directly, and is it wrong to assume that openness can improve science's reputation in the public sphere? Developed as a solution to perceived crises in science-society relations, openness and transparency initiatives might hide 'monsters' that need to be made visible and critically examined. This book does exactly that by dealing with four key themes: the transparency of science in the public sphere; responsibility in contemporary research practice and governance; experts of policy-making, risk assessment and the regulation of science; and tensions of faith and misunderstanding between science and religion. Each section of the book contains an opening essay by experts on a particular theme including contributions from Mark Brown, Benjamin Worthy, Barbara Prainsack, Sabina Leonelli and Chris Toumey. The book closes with an epilogue by Stephen Turner and an essay by John Holmwood. This book should be of interest to academics and members of the public who want to know more about the challenges and opportunities of 'making science public', the theme of the Leverhulme Trust-funded research programme on which this book is based.
Introduction
1 Transparency - Benjamin Worthy
2 Open access: the beast that no-one could – or should – control? -
Stephen Curry
3 Assuaging fears of monstrousness: UK and Swiss initiatives to
open up animal laboratory research - Carmen M. McLeod
4 What counts as evidence in adjudicating asylum claims? Locating
the monsters in the machine: an investigation of faith-based claims
- Roda Madziva and Vivien Lowndes
5 Responsibility - Barbara Prainsack and Sabina Leonelli
6 Leviathan and the hybrid network: Future Earth, co-production and
the experimental life of a global institution - Eleanor Hadley
Kershaw
7 ‘Opening up’ energy transitions research for development - Alison
Mohr
8 The monstrous regiment versus Monsters Inc.: competing
imaginaries of science and social order in responsible (research
and) innovation - Stevienna de Saille and Paul Martin
9 Expertise - Mark B. Brown
10 Disentangling risk assessment: new roles for experts and publics
- Sarah Hartley and Adam Kokotovich
11 Monstrous materialities: ash dieback and plant biosecurity in
Britain - Judith Tsouvalis
12 An Inconvenient Truth: a social representation of scientific
expertise - Warren Pearce and Brigitte Nerlich
13 Science matters and the public interest: the role of minority
engagement - Sujatha Raman, Pru Hobson-West, Mimi E. Lam and Kate
Millar
14 Faith - Chris Toumey
15 Re-examining ‘creationist’ monsters in the uncharted waters of
social studies of science and religion - Fern Elsdon-Baker
16 Playing God: religious influences on the depictions of science
in mainstream movies - David A. Kirby and Amy C. Chambers
17 Afterword: monstrous markets: neo-liberalism, populism and the
demise of the public university - John Holmwood and Jan Balon
18 Epilogue: publics, hybrids, transparency, monsters and the
changing landscape around science - Stephen Turner
Index
Brigitte Nerlich is at the University of Nottingham
Sarah Hartley is at the University of Exeter
Sujatha Raman is at the University of Nottingham
Alexander Smith is at the University of Warwick
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