How to be a Researcher in the XXI Century
CHALLENGES AND NEW PARADIGMS IN A CHANGING SOCIETY
14-17 September 2021
Via Corti 12 – Milan – Area della Ricerca del CNR


Background
- Scientific communication: how to build a communication bridge between Science and the Society?
- Open Access and Open Science: where we are, where we are going
- Science, Ethics and Politics: influencers or influenced by our beliefs?
- Mental Health in Academia
- Minorities, Diversity and Inclusion in Academia
- Rethinking the academic division of labour through transdisciplinary (Final Roundtable)
Speakers

Teresa Branch-Smith
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS and member of H2020 PERITIA project

Elia A.G. Arfini
Research Fellow in Sociology of Culture & Communication at University of Milan, founder of CRAAAZI

Sara Moraca
Science journalist; PhD Candidate in Climate Change SciComm at the University of Bologna

Catriona MacCallum
Director of Open Science at Hindawi Limited, London

Alessandro Allegra
Policy Officer at the European Commission Science Advice Mechanismt

Heather Douglas
Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University

Claudio Colaiacomo
Vice President Global Academic Relations at Elsevier

Denise Cai
Assistant Professor in Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York

Rossella Ciccia
Professor of Social Policy at Oxford University

Alessandro Sarretta
Researcher at National Research Institute for Geo-hydrological Protection (CNR-IRPI), Italy

Francesca Peruzzo
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy at the University of Birmingham

Sarah R. Davies
Professor of Technosciences, Materiality, & Digital Cultures at the University of Wien

Roger Pielke Jr.
Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder

Emanuele Menietti
Journalist @ Il Post

Federica Rosetta
Vice President, Academic & Research Relations, Europe, Elsevier, Amsterdam

Inge van der Weijden
Senior Researcher, Center for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Leiden

Melz Owusu
Artist; PhD candidate in Sociology, University of Cambridge, founder of the Free Black University
Organising Committee
Giuseppe Aprile, EHESS Paris & CEST
Daniela Arlia, Aix-Marseille School of Economics & CEST
Stella Gianfreda, Università di Genova & CEST
Francesco Gobbo, University of Edinburgh
Raffaele Sarnataro, University of Oxford & CEST
Carla Sciarra, Polytechnic University of Turin & CEST
Scientific Committee
External Advisory Board
Francesco Gobbo, University of Edinburgh
Ismael Rafols, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University
Carla Sciarra, Polytechnic University of Turin & CEST
For the host institution:
Alba L’Astorina, Institute for Remote Sensing of the Environment – National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IREA) & BRIDGES project
Rita Giuffredi, Institute for Remote Sensing of the Environment – National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IREA)
Involvement of young scholars and hands-on activities
To this end:
Young scholars in each panel
Each panel includes at least one young scholar as a speaker and a young scholar as a chair.
Workshops
In collaboration with our partners, we organised hands-on workshops that will involve participants in practical and participative activities on the topics of the event. The topics range from climate change to mental health, from open science to science communication, from diversity to gender bias.
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