Blogging Opportunities with Travel Grants for Upcoming Events

Submitted by situsci on Wed, 2011/08/10 - 3:49pm
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Travel Grants for Bloggers of upcoming STS/HPS events

Limited funding. Remuneration and travel grants available for amounts up to 250$ for Fall events. Remuneration up to 500$ for Cluster Workshops.

Deadline for Cluster workshop submission of interest : Node and workshop organizer discretion

Deadline for submission of interest for Sept. 30th event: Sept.15th, 2011
Deadline for submission of interest for Nov. 15th event: Nov. 1st , 2011

Interested in getting involved in new discussions on science, technology and society and engaging in an online dialogue with national and international audiences? Keep your eye on this webpage for blogging opportunities.

Past notices:

The Situating Science Strategic Knowledge Cluster, with the Institute of Science, Society and Policy, are seeking keen student bloggers from various disciplinary fields to discuss aspects of one or both of the following conferences:

Synthetic Biology at the Interface of Science and Policy
September 30, 2011, University of Ottawa

Hosted by the University of Ottawa’s Institute for Science, Society and Policy as part of the 24th annual Entretiens du Centre Jacques Cartier, this colloquium features a slew of national and international speakers.  Keynote: Michele Garfinkel (EMBO and J. Craig Venter Institute) – Synthetic Genomics: Science and Governance.
Link: http://www.situsci.ca/event/synthetic-biology-interface-science-and-policy

Frontiers in Research 2011: Our Post-Human Future
November 15, 2011, University of Ottawa

Hosted by the University of Ottawa and developed in partnership with the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, the speakers at this conference include Arthur Carty (Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and former national science advisor to the Prime Minister), Andrew Hessel (Bioinformatics-Biotechnology Co-Chair, Singularity University), Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (MIRELab, University of Geneva), Fiona Miller (Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto), Gregor Wolbring (Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, University of Calgary).
Link: http://www.research.uottawa.ca/frontiers/

Submission of interest: Please submit a short resume of your educational background and research as well as an explanation of why you are interested in the topic of either event and why you would like to blog about it. Please submit by the deadlines posted above.

Please contact situsci@dal.ca for more information.