UCL Centre for Responsible Innovation Campus Townhall

As we grow the UCL Centre for Responsible Innovation, we want to have as useful an impact as possible within the university and outside.  Can you join us?  We’re meeting for a townhall style event on Tuesday February 10th. 

We’re building on work in teaching, research and policy engagement on innovation over the past decade at our home, UCL’s Department of Science and Technology Studies. 

The plan is to spend most of the time facilitating a discussion. We want to open up areas of mutual interest, especially those that are urgent and important. That might include thinking about UCL’s organisational strategies, research collaborations, or work together on engagement and agendas for innovation in London, nationally and further afield. 

Joining us we’ll have colleagues who we’ve worked with across many projects, along with people coming together for the first time. 

If you want to join us, we’d love to see you there. And do forward to colleagues who might also want to get involved.

Should I come along?

Yes, if you are at UCL and your role involves thinking about how science, technology and innovation interacts with society. Especially if you work on innovation policy and politcs, or if you are involved with funding and research coordination, research culture, training our researchers. Or if you are working with scientists and technologists on engagment or policy. We’re keen to involve colleagues at all career stages and across UCL’s faculties. 

More about the  Centre

We think that research and innovation can contribute to a flourishing society and healthy planet. However, new technologies bring problems as well as solutions, and today the benefits and risks of innovation are unevenly spread.

This raises profound questions and urgent challenges. Responsible innovation is a way of organising research and innovation so it addresses these kinds of challenges. For us, this is about developing understanding and strategies for action about the social and political dynamics between science and society - sometimes framed as issues of safety, security, sustainability, trustworthiness, ethics, justice or simply democracy. 

More about our aims, our research, and some of the people involved so far.