Becoming public characters, not public intellectuals

The Need for Public Intellectuals: A Space for STS

In this address to the president’s plenary at the 2001 annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the author reflected on then recent international events and their possible implications for the research and teaching agendas of the social studies of science, technology, and medicine. He proposed the political engagement of science, technology, and s...

Beyond ‘talking out of school’: educational researchers as public intellectuals

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Bioterrorism becoming too dominant on public health agenda?

Sustainable Health Development Becoming Agenda for Public Health Academia

BACKGROUND Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to transform our world, and each goal has specific targets to be achieved by 2030. For the goals to be achieved, everyone needs to do their part: governments, academia, the private sector and all people. This paper summarizes the main evidence-based recommendations made by excellent academics and scholars who discussed their experiences and vi...