STSC Working Groups

STSC seeks to encourage cross-disciplinary conversation. One way it does this is through administrative support to working groups organized around STS topics.

For information on forming a group, contact STSC staff.

UCB/UCSF Science Studies Cluster for Graduate Students

This joint cluster for graduate students is in its initial formation. We are creating a forum for communication between graduate students across the two campuses who share interests in science studies. Through this forum, we plan to develop reading groups, writing groups, conference panels, and other venues for collaboration. We are also networking and planning joint activities with graduate students at other campuses.

For more information about the cluster and to join, contact Carrie Friese at carrie.friese@ucsf.edu.

STSC Working Group on Science, Technology, Ethics and Law (STELA)

The STELA working group is a new node for faculty and students across the UC Berkeley campus to explore the intersection of Science, Technology, Ethics and Law. Currently, STELA consists of Berkeley faculty and students who focus on the governance of biotechnology, but those with other areas of interest are welcome to participate. Major functions of the group, aside from informal activities and networking, include convening seminars and supporting the development of interdisciplinary courses that will help train students across the university in the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of new genetic technologies.

STELA is coordinated by David Winickoff,
Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Society in the College of Natural Resources.

Faculty, students and post-doctoral fellows and candidates can contact David Winickoff
or the STSC Administrative Coordinator for further information.

Dissertation Writing Group

This group is for doctoral students in science studies and global change studies, at any level between year one and filling the dissertation, who would benefit from forming small groups (e.g. two to four people) to swap drafts of writing -- prospectuses for grants and fellowships, dissertation chapters, and academic articles.

As doctoral students in these interdisciplinary areas, most of us are researching real world issues, while based largely in human sciences and humanities departments such as anthropology, sociology, political science, history, society & environmental studies, English, comparative literature and philosophy.

For more information contact Jenny Wells at wells@nature.berkeley.edu.