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Director's Message Member Spotlight:Sandra Schillo Research@Risk

Positive Energy:Trust in Transition

Innovation21

OutreachTalk with Dr. ClaireHemingway

The ISSP at CSPC2018

Meeting withNortheasternUniversity

ISSP­RCISciencePanel Series

Global KnowledgeSociety: A Promisein Peril? (Panel)

Teaching/TrainingThe ISSPCollaborativeMaster's

ISSP member andresearcher activities Director's VideoMessage

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Dear Rafael Dezordi, Welcome to this issue of the ISSP News, Winter is upon us and the ISSP is having a very active year to date inresearch, teaching and outreach. In research, both our @Risk and Positive Energy projects advancedconsiderably on conducting, mobilizing and disseminating research on riskmanagement (@Risk) and public confidence in energy decision­making(Positive Energy). We were also delighted that our Core Member KellyBronson was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Science and Society (TierII). In teaching, we are getting to know the 2018 cohort in our CollaborativeMaster’s program in Science, Society and Policy and are recruiting for nextyear. In outreach, we held one talk and two public panels on campus andorganized a panel at the Canadian Science Policy Conference. In addition, we held a very productive meeting in December with the ISSP`sAdvisory Committee, which included a public panel on the global knowledgesociety. 2018 ended on a high note and we will be starting 2019 in earnest. Staytuned for upcoming events and opportunities to engage with the ISSP. Kind regards, Monica Gattinger, PhD

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Professor Sandra Schillo focuses her research on improved methodologiesrelating to the measurement of innovation, entrepreneurship and theirimpact.

Dr. Schillo has research and professional experience in the areas of scienceand technology, research and innovation management, and entrepreneurship.Her professional work experience includes work completed for IndustryCanada and many science­based departments and agencies of the Canadianfederal government.

Dr. Schillo completed her doctoral studies at the Institute forEntrepreneurship and Innovation Management, University of Kiel, Germany.She obtained her Masters' degree in Engineering Management from theUniversity of Karlsruhe, Germany, majoring in corporate strategy andspecializing in innovation management and technology transfer.

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@Risk: Strengthening Canada’s Ability to Manage Risk, is a SSHRC / GenomeCanada funded two­year research project (2017­2019) that focuses on how toreconcile the tensions inherent in public decision­making in situations whereexperts and public stakeholders have different perceptions of risk andpreferences on how to mitigate risk. The research goal is to identifyconceptual frameworks and mechanisms to strengthen Canada’s riskmanagement capacity in situations where expert and lay public assessmentsof risk differ.

This fall, the @Risk Research Team continued turning the tremendous amountof research completed over the past 18 months into publishable outputs.Publications in the pipeline draw on both the empirical case study analysesand theoretical discussions among research team members. A final @Riskworkshop to present and discuss the project’s findings is planned for May2019. Members of the Research Team presented their work at the 2018Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa and at the Annual Meeting ofthe Society for Risk Analysis in New Orleans, in December 2018.

Please visit the @Risk project website, our @Risk Twitter account orcontact Dr. Marisa Beck for more information.

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Positive Energy uses the convening power of the university to bring togetheruniversity experts and key decision­makers from industry, government,Indigenous communities, local communities and environmental organizationsto determine how energy resources can be developed in a way that garnersacceptance and benefits society at large. Positive Energy undertakespragmatic, applied, solution­oriented research to find out what works, whatdoesn’t, and how various energy interests can seek and obtain broad socialsupport for energy policies, regulation and individual energy projects. Canada's Energy Future in an Age of Climate Change, the next three­yearproject of the Positive Energy initiative, will identify how to strengthen publicconfidence in energy decisions about Canada's energy future, with aparticular focus on polarization, roles and responsibilities among publicauthorities and models of and limits to consensus­building. Research and engagement will get underway in earnest in 2019. Please visit our website, follow our Twitter account or contact Dr. MarisaBeck for more information.

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The ISSP remains committed to developing a research stream on inclusiveinnovation for emerging and disruptive technologies. While last year's Letter of Intent to create a Network of Centres of Excellence(NCE) was not selected to move to the next stage, we are exploring otherfunding opportunities and means to move the project forward. ISSP Members Kelly Bronson and Sandra Schillo, along with ISSP SeniorFellow Jeff Kinder, are organizing a series of events on inclusive innovation atthe Institute on Governance, in collaboration with the ISSP. The first eventwas a Policy Crunch held at the IOG on November 2018. Stay tuned for moreto come!

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The Priorities, Policies, and Opportunities in US­Canadian ScienceCollaboration roundtable discussion kicked off with a presentation on U.S.science priorities and policies and opportunities for U.S.­Canadian researchcollaborations. An Embassy Science Fellow in Ottawa in Fall 2018, Dr. ClaireHemingway is a program director at the National Science Foundation (NSF).

At NSF she handles engagement with Canada and China and manages a newprogram to support international network to network collaborations. Shehighlighted several international programs at NSF before an open discussionon opportunities to further strengthen the robust research connectionsbetween the U.S. and Canada. Photos are available at the event's website.

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The ISSP and its members were prominent at the 2018 Canadian SciencePolicy Conference. At this year's conference, we organized the panel RiskCommunication and Engagement with the Public in the Nuclear,Climate and Artificial Intelligence Sectors, alongside Mitacs CanadianScience Policy Fellows and the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of PublicPolicy's Centre for the Study of Science and Innovation Policy. For a complete list of our members' participation at CSPC 2018, please referto the ISSP Member and Researcher Activities section below. Photos of our participation at CSPC 2018 are available on our Facebookpage.

The Institute for Science, Society and Policy was delighted to host adelegation from Northeastern University at the University of Ottawa campusto explore areas for potential research collaboration. Dr. Monica Gattinger, Director; Dr. Marisa Beck, Research Director; Dr. LundyLewis, Canada/US Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Science and Society(2018­2019) and Rafael Dezordi, Communications and Outreach Specialist,represented the ISSP. The Northeastern Delegation featured David Luzzi, Ph.D., MBA, Senior Vice­Provost for Research and Vice­President of the Innovation Campus; TimLeshan, Vice­President for Government Relations and Tobias Rodill, BusinessDevelopment Consultant. Follow­up meetings are planned to continue the discussions.

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The Institute for Science, Society and Policy and the Royal Canadian Institutefor Science were delighted to host the first panel of the second year of theISSP­RCIScience Panel Series. The series focusses on the impact of emerging science and technologies onsociety and policy. At this year's first panel, we discussed the science, policyand societal implications of new technologies designed to allow people withdisabilities to communicate and interact with the world around them. Videos and photos are available at the event's website.

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New technologies open exciting opportunities for knowledge, research, andeducation to cross borders. From massive online university courses toartificial intelligence mining big data to social media ­ innovations like thesehold a promise of progress toward a vision of a global knowledge society ­one where knowledge, shared freely across the globe, becomes key toachieving sustainable development, peace, and empowerment for all. But recently, the same tools that can bring liberation have been exposed forcontributing to erosion of the cultural and political foundations of freesociety. The panelists discussed whether our progress toward a globalknowledge society is in peril, what barriers exist to globalizing knowledge andthe benefits and risks associated with living in a global knowledge society. Videos and photos are available at the event's website.

September 2018 marks the fourth year that the ISSP has been offeringits collaborative Master's Program with eleven participating departmentsand faculties. We've continued to experience a steady rise in the number ofinquiries from students and faculty members alike about the admissioncriteria and program requirements. The ISSP Collaborative Master's program provides an opportunityfor existing graduate students to gain additional training. To be accepted intothe Collaborative Master's program, students must be admitted to one of the

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participating programs at the University of Ottawa. For more information, please contact Professor Daniel Paré, the ProgramCoordinator.

Denise Amyot, Chair of the ISSP AdvisoryCommittee, as well as President and CEO of Collegesand Institutes Canada, moderated the CanadianScience Policy Conference panel A two­way street:science informing policy, and policy informingscience, at CSPC 2018.

Duane Bratt, Case Lead Researcher of the ISSP@Risk project, as well as Professor and Chair,Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studiesat Mount Royal University, was a panelist at theISSP/Mitacs/Johnson Shoyama Graduate School ofPublic Policy Centre for the Study of Science andInnovation Policy panel Risk Communication andEngagement with the Public in the Nuclear,Climate and Artificial Intelligence Sectors,at CSPC 2018. He was also a panelist at thesymposium Risk Perception, Risk Controversiesand Risk Management: Can Public Engagementwith Values Strengthen Risk ManagementPractices? at Society for Risk Analysis 2018, heldin New Orleans, LA.

Kelly Bronson, Core Member of the ISSP, as well asAssistant Professor of Sociological and AnthropologicalStudies at the Faculty of Social Sciences ofthe University of Ottawa, was awarded a CanadaResearch Chair in Science and Society (Tier II).

Jackie Dawson, Core Member of the ISSP, as well asan Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa andCanada Research Chair in Environment, Society andPolicy (Tier II), was chosen alongside 25 otherscientists from across Canada to participate in the 1st

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edition of the Science Meets Parliament event onParliament Hill.

Michelle Driedger, Case Lead Researcher of theISSP @Risk project, as well as Professor andGraduate Program Director, Department of CommunityHealth Sciences at the University of Manitoba, was apanelist at the symposium Risk Perception, RiskControversies and Risk Management: Can PublicEngagement with Values Strengthen RiskManagement Practices? at Society for RiskAnalysis 2018, held in New Orleans, LA.

Paul Dufour, Senior Fellow of the ISSP, as well asAdjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa, was themoderator of the Canadian Science PolicyConference/Le Fonds de recherche du Québec panelThe many ways in which the next generation canbe involved in the governance of research,at CSPC 2018.

Scott Findlay, ISSP Core Member, as wellas Associate Professor, Department of Biology andDirector, Graduate Studies ­ Institute of theEnvironment at the University of Ottawa, was one ofthe speakers at the Mitacs/Canadian Science PolicyCentre breakfast panel Skills and CompetenciesWhere Science and Policy meet, at CSPC 2018.

Monica Gattinger, Director of the ISSP, as well asFull Professor, School of Political Studies at theUniversity of Ottawa, was the moderatorof the ISSP/Mitacs/Johnson Shoyama Graduate Schoolof Public Policy Centre for the Study of Science andInnovation Policy panel Risk Communication andEngagement with the Public in the Nuclear,Climate and Artificial Intelligence Sectors andwas keynote speaker at the symposium SupportingCanada’s Energy Transition – Bridging the Gapbetween Fundamental Research, Industry, andPolicy, both at CSPC 2018.

Yves Gingras, Member of the ISSP Advisory

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Committee, as well as Professor at the Université duQuébec à Montréal and Canada Research Chair inHistory and Sociology of Science, received theprestigious 2018 Léon­Guérin Award.

Rees Kassen, ISSP Core member, as well as FullProfessor, Department of Biology, University ofOttawa, spoke on Synthetic biology: promises andperils of DIY (Do It Yourself) biology in re­writing thetext of life at La science hors murs au XXIesiècle colloquium, organized by the Académiefrançaise des sciences in Paris, France.

Jeff Kinder, Senior Fellow at the ISSP, as well asExecutive Director, Science and Innovation at theInstitute on Governance (IOG), was one of thepanelists at the Canadian Science Policy Centre panelScience Policy 101, at CSPC 2018.

Jennifer Kuzma, Case Lead Researcher of the ISSP@Risk project, as well as Goodnight­NCGSKFoundation Distinguished Professor at the School ofPublic and International Affairs, North Carolina StateUniversity, was a panelist at the symposium RiskPerception, Risk Controversies and RiskManagement: Can Public Engagement withValues Strengthen Risk ManagementPractices? at Society for Risk Analysis 2018, heldin New Orleans, LA.

Patricia Larkin, Post­doctoral researcher and ProjectManager of the ISSP @Risk project, was Chairand panelist at the symposium Risk Perception, RiskControversies and Risk Management: Can PublicEngagement with Values Strengthen RiskManagement Practices? at Society for RiskAnalysis 2018, held in New Orleans, LA.

Lundy Lewis, Canada/US Fulbright Visiting ResearchChair in Science and Society at the ISSP, as well asProfessor of Computer Information Technology, Chairof the Information Technology Department and co­chair of the Game Design and Development Programat Southern New Hampshire University, was guest

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speaker at the Luncheon talk Exploring the SocietalImpact of AI through Robots: A STEM­ulatingDemonstration and Discussion, organized by La Génieau service des femmes.

Margaret McCuaig­Johnston, Senior Fellow at theISSP, spoke in October at a Canada­DenmarkGovernment meeting in Copenhagen about Canada­China innovation and collaborations in the Arctic.She also spent more than two weeks in China inDecember, briefing Ambassador John McCallum andsenior Trade officials at the Canadian Embassy inBeijing, as well as Consul General Weldon Epp andTrade officials in Shanghai. In addition, she presentedon the history of Canada­China S&T relations at theDecember 8­9, 2018 International ConferenceCommemorating the 40th Anniversary of theBeginning of China’s S&T Reforms in Beijing. Margaretalso participated in a three day meeting of the topeight American think tank and academic experts onChina’s innovation system at Duke University inKunshan. Finally, Margaret presented on Canada­China S&T Relations at the Shanghai Institute ofScience and Technology Policy, returning the exchangewith the Institute’s visit to ISSP in October.

Daniel Paré, ISSP Core Member, as well as AssociateProfessor, Department of Communication, and Schoolof Information Studies, University of Ottawa, alongwith his colleagues Patrick McCurdy (ISSP CoreMember) and Elizabeth Dubois from the Department ofCommunication organized an event through the AlexTrebek Forum for Dialogue on November 14, 2018.Titled, Social Media & Platform Politics: The(Un)intended Consequences for Democracy, thisevent hosted a panel discussion by leadinginternational experts who opened the black box ofsocial media platforms to examine how they function,and strategies for mitigating their unintendedconsequences for democracy.

Marc Saner, Inaugural Director and Core Member ofthe ISSP, as well as Full Professor and Chair of theGeography, Environment and Geomatics Departmentat the University of Ottawa, was one of the guestspeakers at INGSA #3 in Tokyo, Japan. He was therapporteur for Day 1 of the conference and gave a

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presentation on SDGs, Ethics and Earth Measurementon day 2.

Dee Williams, 2017 Canada/US Fulbright VisitingResearch Chair in Science and Society at the ISSP, aswell as Alaska Regional Deputy Director for the UnitedStates Geological Survey (USGS), is a contributingauthor to a forthcoming synthesis article in Earth'sFuture entitled The Expanding Footprint of Rapid ArcticChange. He is also actively preparing the After ActionReport about the 2018 Kilauea Volcano eruptionresponse in Hawaii.

Editor in chief: Monica Gattinger Writers: Marisa Beck, Rafael Dezordi and Monica Gattinger

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