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University of the
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Public Engagement with Science

I am particularly interested in Science Communication, the Public Undertanding of Science and how science is mediated. While I studied science formally at university, I am, at best, a social scientist and a philosopher of science. I regularly read scientific journals and try to publish ethical comnmentaries on science in them, which is no easy task!



Recommended Reading

Engaging Science /
Journal of Science Communication /
New Genetics and Society /
Public Understanding of Science /

Science as Culture /
Science, Technology and Human Values /
Social Studies of Science /

 

Recommended Links

Public Understanding of Science /
Royal Institution of Great Britain /
Science Scotland /
Science Media Centre /
Society for Social Studies of Science
/
Soft Machines by Richard Jones /
Upstream Nano /


 

Friends who fit here...

Susan Aldrige / James Auger / Claire Blithell / Elio Caccavale / Anthony Dunne / Dan Glaser / Aubrey de Grey / Fiona Fox / David Gems / Bettina Hoermann / Richard Jones / Fiona Raby / Ottilia Saxl / Jon Turney / Summer Xie /

 

My Publications

Miah, A. (2005) Genetics, Cyberspace and Bioethics: Why Not a Public Engagement with Ethics? Public Understanding of Science 14(4), 409-421.

 

resarch interests

art&design // bioethics // china // cyberculture // ethics // law // medicine // olympics // outer space // politics // public engagement with science // science // sport // technology

just published

Miah, A. (2008, July 31) Inside the mind of a Marathon man, Nature, 454, in press.

Miah, A. (2008) Paralympics 2.0, Bioethics Forum, The Hastings Center.

Miah, A. (2008) Letter to Utopia: A Reply to Bostrom, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2(1).

Miah, A. (2008) Engineering Greater Resilience or Radical Transhuman Enhancement, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2(1).

my next event

Glasgow, Scotland i (30 Sept, 2008)
Our Cultural & Moral Commitment to Discover, Create, and Support New Life Forms, for LESS REMOTE: The Futures of Space Exploration: an Arts & Humanities Symposium, International Astronautical Congress, SEC, Glasgow, Scotland [abstract]

Beijing, China c (Aug, 2008)
Chair and Speaker for panel symposium on Emergent Journalistic Cultures at the Olympics, International Symposium on Olympic Research, Beijing National University and University of Western Ontario [outline].

Olympia, Greece i (July, 2008)
Supervising Professor, International Olympic Academy 16th Postgraduate Seminar [Lecture Outlines].

in press

Miah, A. (2008) Justifying Human Enhancement: The Accumulation of Biocultural Capital. In: Wint, S. Ethical Futures. The Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (RSA), London.

Miah, A. (2008) Playing Games with Artificial Intelligence. Hale, B. (Ed) Philosophy Looks at Chess . Open Court Press.

Miah, A. (2008). Posthumanism: A Critical History. In Gordijn, B. & Chadwick, R. 'Medical Enhancements and Posthumanity. Springer.

Miah, A. (2008) 'Blessed are the Forgetful': The Ethics of Memory Modification in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In Shapshay, S. (Ed) Bioethics Through Film, Johns Hopkins University Press.

 

just published

Zwart, N. H. (2007). "Genomics and self-knowledge: implications for societal research and debate." New Genetics and Society 26(2): 181-202.

Mitchell, C. B., E. D. Pellegrino, et al. (2007). Biotechnology and the Human Good. Washington, DC., Georgetown University Press.

Peters, H. P., J. T. Lang, et al. (2007). "Culture and Technological Innovation: Impact of Institutional Trust and Appreciation of Nature on Attitudes towards Food Biotechnology in the USA and Germany." International Journal of Public Opinion Research 19(2): 191-220.

House of Commons Select Committee, Science And Technology (2007) Report on Human Enhancement Technologies in Sport.

Koolstra CM, Bos MJW, Vermeulen IE. Through which medium should science information professionals communicate with the public: television or the internet? Journal of Science Communication 2006;5(3):1-8.

   

interviews

May, 2008
The technological enhancement of man, Danish Broadcasting Corporation

April, 2008
Evening Standard
Beijing 2008 Olympics and Protest

March, 2008
The Sports Factor, ABC Radio, Blogging at the Beijing Olympics

Feb, 2008
ESPN Magazine

flashback

 

recent places
         
Brussels, Belgium i (May, 2008)
The ethical and philosophical aspects of enhancement medicine.
  London, UK i (May, 2008)
New Media and the Olympics, Olympic legacy conference, University of Greenwich.
  Liverpool, UK i (April, 2008)
The Future of the Mind,
FACT Human Futures.
         
Oxford, UK a (Mar, 2008)
Olympic Legacies, St Anthony's College, Oxford University.
  London, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Royal College of Art, Lecture for Design Interactions, Emerging Cultures of Nanotechnology
  London, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Royal College of Art, AHRC Seminar on Art & Design in Human Enhancement [brief].
         
Liverpool, UK a (Feb, 2008)
SK-interfaces conference, FACT.
  Liverpool, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Human Futures: What is the future of the body? Artists' seminar in advance of the SK-interfaces meet, @ FACT.
  London, UK i (Jan, 2008)
London Metropolitan University, New Media @ the Olympics.
 
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