Detailed Conference Programme

Wednesday, 8 February: Victoria University, Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus
2:00	Registration: Ground floor foyer
3:30	Optional: Bus departs from Bunny St (outside main entrance) to go to Kelburn campus
Wednesday, 8 February: Victoria University, Kelburn Campus
4:00	Powhiri (formal welcome ceremony), Te Herenga Waka Marae, 46 Kelburn Parade Contextualising putaiao and science in Aotearoa New Zealand Te Ripowai Higgins, Dr Pauline Harris, Assoc Prof Ralph Chapman and Prof Piri Sciascia
6:30	Opening night social hour ‘Milk and Honey’ staff cafe, Lower level, Rankine Brown building
Thursday, 9 February: Victoria University, Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus
7:45	Registration; coffee and tea
8:30 LT1	Welcome: Dr Jessica Hutchings, Assoc Prof Richard Hindmarsh and Dr Karen Cronin Video Link » Address begins at 00:00 min, ends 34:18 min Opening International Keynote Address: Prof Helga Nowotny What next? Frontier research and innovation for a fragile future Chair: Dr Karen Cronin Video Link » Address begins at 34:18 min, ends 116:50 min
9:45	Morning tea [Mezzanine]
10:15 LT1	Plenary address: Prof. Steve Rayner Uneasy bedfellows: Science, politics and contemporary governance Chair: Dr Steve Thompson
11:15 LT1	Minister’s opening address: Hon Steven Joyce, Minister for Economic Development, Minister of Science and Innovation, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Video Link » Chair: Dr Steve Thompson
11:45 LT1	Session 1A: Scientific advice for policy Chair: Prof Jonathan Boston Providing scientific advice to policy makers: The experience of food regulators in Australia and New Zealand Linda Botterill & Melanie Fisher Science for policy and policy for science: Lessons from the international climate change negotiations Adrian Macey A practical framework to negotiate fit-for-purpose science advice: A New Zealand example Graeme Nicholas
11:45 LT3	Session 1B: Local culture and indigenous knowledge for sustainability Chair: Ms Katrina Taupo Re-constructing and measuring ‘success’ for Hua Parakore (Māori organic) production Mahina-a-rangi Baker Contesting the state natural resources management policy in Taiwan: A perspective from indigenous people’s ecological knowledge Yih-Ren Lin, Ai-Ching Yen, Da-Wei Kuan Yin-An Chen & Hsin-Han Wang Ethics of responsibility for collaboration Betsan Martin & Te Kawehau Hoskins
11:45 MZ11	Session 1C: Integrating science information and knowledge with decision making Chair: Ms Virginia Baker What is the relationship between science and democracy? New Zealand aquaculture, environmental controversy and science Meghan Collins Forensic science in action: The problem of harmonising practices in the face of criminal justice system and international relations Mai Suzuki & Masato Fukushima Regimes of justification: Integrating knowledge for aquatic ecosystem health Tabatha Wallington, Cathy Robinson, Fredereicke Kroon, Ro Hill & Iris Bohnet
11:45 MZ05	Session 1D: Innovations in ecological and population health Chair: Dr Bob Frame Complementary dual approach to planning and policy development using the Ecological Footprint Ella Lawton, Beat Huser, Maggie Lawton, Mike O’Connell, Jake Roos & Robert Vale Influence of global pharmaceutical companies on health policy in Taiwan: Social construction of the public need for HPV vaccines Chia-Yin Lin & Tomiko Yamaguchi Taking responsibility for the environmental life cycle impacts of New Zealand’s primary sector products Sarah McLaren, James McDevitt & Brent Clothier
1:00	Lunch
2:00 LT3	Workshop: Building the research capacity of the APSTS Network: Visions for the future An Asia-Pacific Science, Technology and Society Network (APSTSN) members’ event Facilitators: Assoc Prof Richard Hindmarsh & Dr Nicola Marks
2:00 LT1	Afternoon Plenary Panel: Science policy, research and innovation Chair: Dr Amanda Wolf The changing context for STI policy Ron Johnston Fall of research and rise of innovation Judy Motion, Shirley Leitch, Elizabeth Merlot & Sally Davenport Mapping New Zealand’s innovation ecosystem: Can complex systems help explain New Zealand’s productivity paradox? Dion O’Neale & Shaun Hendy
3:30	Afternoon tea
3:45 MZ5	Session 2A: Science and innovation capacity Chair: Dr Allen Petrey Analysis of globalisation of technology and Chinese high-tech industry policy Chen Fan & Chen Jia Experiences of transdisciplinarity in research on agricultural sustainability Lesley Hunt, Jayson Benge, Hugh Campbell, John Fairweather, Glen Greer, Dave Lucock, Jon Manhire, Henrik Moller, John Reid, Chris Rosin & Caroline Saunders Scientific entrepreneurship: A different mindset Malcolm Menzies
3:45 MZ11	Session 2B: Science policy and decision making Chair: Dr Steve Thompson Right science, right policy: Lessons from implementation of the Biosecurity Science Strategy Andrew Bell, M. Hume, N. Parker, A. Spackman & B. Stephenson Relational procurement: better contracting practices for operational research? Alison Stringer & Suzie Greenhalgh Using impact evaluation to guide research science and technology investment Tracy Williams
3:45 LT1	Session 2C: Bridging stakeholder expectations of the science system Chair: Dr Karen Cronin Running with the Red Queen: Framings of benefit as imperative for GM research in New Zealand Ronnie Cooper A law and STS dialogue: Criminal justice, the crisis in forensic science and medicine and a proposal for reform Gary Edmond & David Mercer Scientific knowledge and risk communication: A critical analysis of electromagnetic fields disputes in Taiwan and implications for policy making Shu-Fen Kao Science policy and expectation management: A comparative study of stem cell research in the United Kingdom and Japan Koichi Mikami
3:45 LT3	Session 2D: Broadening participation in science and science policy Chair: Dr Jessica Hutchings Māori participation in science and science policy Garth Harmsworth Designing vaccines to combat cancer: A Pacific journey through the New Zealand science, health and research communities Dianne Sika-Paotonu Two Wolves: Developing a replicable model for policy change in STEM education for American Indian students in grades 5–12 Julie Thomas & Diane Montgomery
5:15	End of paper session
6:00	Reception Te Raukura: Te Wharewaka O Poneki, Odlins Square, Taranaki St Wharf (Map, p. 56. Location #12)
7:00	Dinner Wharewaka Evening keynote: Mr Rod Oram Chair: Mr Anthony Scott
Friday, 10 February: Victoria University, Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus
8:00	Registration, Coffee and tea
8:15 LT1	Special Panel: Driving science down the innovation highway—A provocative discussion on the commercialisation of American science, with comments from New Zealand scientists Kim Hill (MC) International keynote video address: Prof Philip Mirowski Video Link » Panel respondents: Dr Garth Carnaby, Dr Joanna Goven and Dr Andrew West
9.30	Day 2 Welcome and Opening Remarks: Prof Sir Peter Gluckman Video Link »
9:45 LT1	Plenary address: Prof Roger Pielke, Jr The use, abuse and misuse of expertise Video Link » Address begins 17:10 min, ends 62.16 min Chair: Prof Sir Peter Gluckman
10:45	Morning tea
11:00 LT1	Session 3A: Representing science in a social context Chair: Dr Karen Cronin Science, uncertainty and institutions Dave Frame Ideal-types of scientific citizenship: How scientists’ discourses enable different versions of public engagement in the policy process Nicola Marks Hybrid framing of climate change: A cross-national comparison of newspaper accounts Stephen Zehr & Amy Brown
11:00 LT3	Session 3B: Community engagement, uncertainty and expertise Chair: Assoc Prof Richard Hindmarsh People-places as sites for change in integrated water management in Australia’s Murray Darling Basin Margaret Ayre Multi-stakeholder engagement: Community engagement in decision making about enabling technologies A. Wendy Russell & Craig Cormick The use of science knowledge in environmental decision-making: Examining expert meetings in Taiwan’s environmental impact assessment process Wenling Tu
11:00 MZ11	Session 3C: Mediated relationships in science and science policy Chair: Dr Bob Frame DIY micro-governance: Hackerspaces as policy model Denisa Kera & Sarah Davies Constructive communications: The interconnectedness of social action James Liu Towards better policy for science and innovation? Andrew Moore Between i-philosophy and green lifestyle: (Re)fashioning science for future elites in Taiwan Yu-Juin Wang
12:30	Lunch
12:30 MZ11	APSTSN Business Meeting (all APSTSN delegates welcome)
1:30	Indigenous Panel: Tahua nuku, tahua rangi – Science policy and Māori well-being in the 21st century Chair: Dr Jessica Hutchings Panellist: Maui Hudson Panellist: Dr Sarah Jane Tiakiwai Panellist: Wakaiti Dalton Video Link »
2:45	Afternoon tea Meeting of New Zealand STS researchers (part of APSTSN)
3:15 LT1	Session 4A: Doubt, precaution and global risk management Chair: Prof Dave Frame Evidence-based decision-making: Does it constrain consideration of uncertain, dynamic and changing climate risk? Judy Lawrence Global risk management versus scientific uncertainty Martin Manning From a literacy deficit to the certainty deficit? David Mercer
3:15 MZ11	Session 4B: Mapping place and space: Engagement and needs of marginalised people Chair: Ms Te Aroha Hohaia Mapping the epistemological translation: Revising the critique of geographical information systems as instruments of cultural assimilation Oscar Forero Addressing social conflict in ‘place’ for better wind energy transitions Richard Hindmarsh Spatial science and social policy: A geographical approach to social vulnerability and hazard management Joanne Travaglia, Hamish Robertson & Nick Nicholas
3:15 LT3	Session 4C: Wellbeing, policy and leadership Chair: Ms Lesley Middleton Understanding wellbeing through social science: Where and why system-wide leadership matters Len Cook Co-producing knowledge of well-being: The role of subjective well-being measures Margreet Frieling & Bronwyn Newton Māori well-being, future foods and science policy Jessica Hutchings & Katrina Taupo
4:30 LT1	Closing keynote address: Prof Brian Wynne Why is there no democratic accountability in ‘democratic’ science policy? Video Link » Chair: Prof Richard Le Heron
5:30	Presentation of APSTSN Best Paper Awards Poroporoaki

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Detailed Conference Programme

Wednesday, 8 February: Victoria University, Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus

Wednesday, 8 February: Victoria University, Kelburn Campus

Thursday, 9 February: Victoria University, Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus

Friday, 10 February: Victoria University, Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus