The STEPS Centre director Melissa Leach will represent the Centre in two UK Parliament events next week. After the Centre’s submission to the Science and Technology Select Committee’s inquiry in…
STEPS IN PARLIAMENT
NEW PAPER: LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA
A new STEPS Centre paper, by Elisa Arond, Iokiñe Rodríguez, Valeria Arza, Francisco Herrera and Myriam Sánchez, investigates the challenges of linking science, technology and innovation to social needs, in…
GLOBELICS 2011
The STEPS Centre ran a special session at the 9th Globelics Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 17 November, entitled Innovation for Social Inclusion and Sustainable Development.
COMPLEXITY SCIENCE & DEVELOPMENT
In a world where systems change and interact unpredictably, there’s a growing interest in using complexity science to tackle questions in international development. Our director Melissa Leach spoke last month…
RISKY ADVICE AND UNCERTAINTY
Andy Stirling, STEPS Director and Alister Scott, visiting fellow at SPRU, have an article up at Project Syndicate (and on the Al Jazeera website) on recent technological disasters (Fukushima, BP…
DIVERSITY, DISTRIBUTION AND DEVELOPMENT THROUGH KNOWLEDGE, NETWORKS AND NATIONS
By Melissa Leach, STEPS Centre director A new report by the Royal Society surveys the global scientific landscape in 2011, noting the shift to an increasingly multipolar world underpinned by…
Center for Scientific Studies (CECS) in Chile
The Center for Scientific Studies (CECS) was founded in 1984 as the first independent scientific research organization in the history of Chile, and has become an important centre for science in Chile and Latin America.
Identification of Minamata Disease
Minamata disease is one of the most severe diseases caused by environmental pollution in the world, which was first confirmed in 1956 in Minamata City, Japan.
International Space Station (ISS)
The start of construction of the International Space Station (ISS)
SCIENCE & INTOLERANCE
John Beddington, the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor, said earlier this month that scientists should be “grossly intolerant” towards “pseudoscience” and suggested that the media gives too much space to…