- Date: Tuesday 28 April
- Time: 14:00–15:30
- Location: BIO – Bygg B, Store Puddefjorden (5G01)
BIO invites early-career researchers and all interested staff to a workshop on engaging with the science-policy interface titled “How can early-career researchers engage in the science-policy interface (and should they…)?
Biology is, arguably, at the core of several of today’s many ‘global crises’ – from climate change via biodiversity and ecosystem loss, to food and energy supply shortages. Biodiversity and ecosystems’ key roles in these crises are widely recognized, and not only by scientists. For example, the World Economic Forum is consistently identifying the loss of nature and biodiversity as one of the five top long-term threats to the world economy. Yet the policy action is still falling short of what is needed to halt and reverse these crises and reduce risks to humanity.
As biologists, we might feel frustration that our scientific knowledge is not adequately reflected in policies and societal decision-making, but we might also feel responsibility for contributing more, and more effectively, to society’s knowledge base.
In this workshop, we will tackle these issues, and discuss:
- how early careers can conduct policy relevant science
- how to get into and contribute at the science-policy interface
The workshop will be led by Vigdis Vandvik, professor at BIO, who has longstanding experience in work at the science-policy interface at local, national and international levels. She has been an author on IPBES and IPCC reports, serves on Council of Ethics for the Norwegian ‘Oil Fund’, has contributed to several white papers and a number of reports and expert panels for the Norwegian Government, and leads the cross-faculty initiative CeSAM – Centre for Sustainable Area Management at UiB.
The ECC team