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SUMMARY:Citizen science: reshaping relations between science\, government 
 and citizens - Professor Johannes Vogel\, Director-General of the Museum f
 ür Naturkunde Berlin
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CONTACT:Laura Sayer
DESCRIPTION:*A lecture by Professor Johannes Vogel with response from Prof
 essor Jennifer Gabrys.*\n\n*Peterhouse Lecture Theatre\, 23 September 2019
 *\n\nDoors open at 5pm\n\n*Attendance is by registration only\, please sig
 n up here*\nhttp://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/events/citizen-science-reshaping-rel
 ations-between-scienc/ \n\nThe lecture will be follwed by drinks and netwo
 rking.\n\n\nIn this lecture\, Professor Johannes Vogel will set out his vi
 sion for citizen science. This vision underpins ambitious plans to transfo
 rm the Berlin Natural History Museum and place it at the heart of democrat
 ic engagement with the grand challenges of the 21st century.\n\nGreat enli
 ghtenment institutions such as museums are hybrid organisations of researc
 h and communication. More can be made to link these institutions’ scient
 ific infrastructure\, cutting-edge research and spaces for democratic part
 icipation. Democratic knowledge societies will depend on such hybrid insti
 tutions to support citizen scientists as active participants in addressing
  challenges such as biodiversity loss and climate change.\n\nTaking citize
 n science seriously offers great hopes for positive engagement between sci
 ence\, government and citizens. But to grasp these opportunities\, scienti
 fic institutions such as universities and museums will have to change radi
 cally\, and governments will need to rethink how they use science.\n\n*Joh
 annes Vogel*\n\nSince 2012 Johannes Vogel has been the Director-General of
  the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and Professor for Biodiversity and Publ
 ic Science at the Humboldt University Berlin. He chairs the Leibniz Resear
 ch Alliance Biodiversity and is a member of the German High Tech Forum.\n\
 nFrom 2016 – 18 he chaired the European Open Science Policy Platform (OS
 PP)\, which brings many important stakeholders across Europe together to a
 dvise the EU Commission\, the Intergovernmental Competiveness Council and 
 national stakeholders on a Europe-wide transition towards Open Science.\n\
 nSupporting bottom-up scientific and civic engagement he chairs the Europe
 an Citizen Science Association. Studying biology in Bielefeld he moved to 
 University of Cambridge in 1989\, obtaining a PhD in Genetics in 1995. The
 reafter he pursued a research career at the Natural History Museum in Lond
 on\, becoming Keeper of Botany in 2004.\n\nHis interests are the role of m
 useums in science and society\, public engagement with science\, open scie
 nce\, democracy and innovation\, (inter-) national science policy\, biodiv
 ersity and plant evolutionary biology.\n\n*Jennifer Gabrys*\n\nProfessor J
 ennifer Gabrys is Chair in Media\, Culture and Environment\, a post she be
 gan in October 2018. Previously\, she was Professor in the Department of S
 ociology at Goldsmiths\, University of London\, where she continues to hav
 e an affiliation as honorary Visiting Professor. She has also been a visit
 ing Research Fellow at the Digital Cultures Research Lab in the Centre for
  Digital Cultures\, Leuphana University of Lüneburg\, Germany.\n\nSince 2
 013\, she has been the Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded project 
 ‘Citizen Sense’ -- a pioneering investigation into the public engageme
 nt with environmental sensing technologies and citizen-data generation in 
 both urban and rural locations in the US and the UK. Gabrys has been award
 ed an ERC Proof of Concept grant\, ‘AirKit’ (2018-2019)\, to further d
 evelop Citizen Sense research. The Citizen Sense project has received mult
 iple awards\, including the John Ziman award for public engagement in scie
 nce and technology awarded by the European Association for the Study of Sc
 ience and Technology (EASST) in 2018.
LOCATION:Peterhouse Lecture Theatre\,  Trumpington Street
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