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Institute for Science and Society to lead major project on making science public

Description: Brigitte Nerlich is to lead a multi-disciplinary project with colleagues across The University of Nottingham and in collaboration with The University of Sheffield and The University of Warwick, to make the practice, use and assessment of science more public, open, transparent and democratic.
Date:: 27/02/2012

Professor Nerlich receives highest academic honour for work on 'Science and Society'

Description: Professor Brigitte Nerlich of the University's Institute for Science and Society and the School of Sociology and Social Policy is to be awarded a Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) at the winter graduation ceremony for her published work in the field of 'Science and Society'.
Date:: 24/02/2012

New research project investigates climate change as a complex social issue

Description: A group of eminent academics from the universities of Nottingham, Leicester and Amsterdam will explore climate change as a complex social issue in a new ESRC/ORA-funded multi-methodological project.
Date:: 09/06/2011

Can social science justify itself?

Description: Kate Roach, PhD student at The Institute for Science and Society, extols the relevance of social sciences but suggests that academics need to improve their skills in communicating this in a recent piece for The Guardian.
Date:: 04/02/2011

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