Webinar:"Challenges and strategies for socially engaged scientists in Academia"

The Activism Mobilizing Science Project (Public Policy Centre - Universitat Pompeu Fabra) together with the Environmental Justice project (Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) will host the webinar ‘Challenges and strategies for socially engaged scientists in Academia’

 

Date: 15th December, 2020
Time:  17.00 - 18.30 CET
Venue: Online

 

The webinar will be in English, with Spanish translation. Register here

You can find more information in this link: https://bit.ly/2VxbCOo

In this webinar we will explore the challenges and pressures scientists confront when they engage in socio-environmental controversies. 

Scientists sensitive to environmental controversies are becoming a key resource for communities involved in environmental struggles worldwide. However very little is known about the different professional and personal challenges and impacts that these scientists face. With this in mind we will ask our three speakers:

-     What have been the challenges and impacts for their careers and lives of getting involved in environmental struggles? 

-    What strategies have they used to overcome difficulties and protect themselves from undesired consequences?  

These are our three invited speakers: 

·         Amy Townsend-Small, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, whose work on the carbon cycle and climate change has pushed her to work with communities affected by fracking.

·         Rafael Lajmanovich, professor and researcher at the Ecotoxicology and Biology Lab of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (FBCB-UNL), Argentina. He co-developed the first study that addresses the combined effects of glyphosate and arsenic in health.

·         Ignacio Chapela is an ecologist, microbiologist and mycologist. He is Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been an important critic of the university's ties with the biotechnology industry.

 

Join us to explore this question in the first of a webinar series exploring the challenges and pressures scientists confront when they engage in socio-environmental struggles, and most importantly what lesson have they learnt.

Register here (Free but registration is compulsory!)

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Kinds regards,

Dr Marta Conde and Dr. Mariana Walter

Organized by:

Activism Mobilising Science project (https://www.upf.edu/web/jhu-ppc/activism-mobilising-science) at the Public Policy Centre of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra 

GREDS EMCONET Research Group (https://www.upf.edu/web/greds-emconet/research-lines)

Environmental Justice project (www.envjustice.org). ICTA- UAB

Environmental Justice Atlas (www.ejatlas.org)