Friday, November 21
9:00am Science and Society
British Speaker:
Lord May of Oxford OM, AC, Kt, PRS
President, The Royal Society
Canadian Speaker:
Dr Thomas Brzustowski OC
President Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Topic: Moving
to a new social contract between science and society
10:45am Science and Government (1)
British Speaker:
Dr Mark Walport FMedSci
Director, The Wellcome Trust
Topic: Charities
and government - opportunities for partnership
Canadian Speaker:
Dr Robert Clarke
Executive Director, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment
Topic: The
Science / Policy Interface: The need for sustainable regulation
accompanying slides
Colour or Black&White.
2:00pm Science and Government (2)
British Speaker:
Professor Alan Irwin
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Brunel University
Canadian Speaker:
Dr Jeffrey Hutchings
Canada Research Chair, Marine Conservation and Biodiversity, Dalhousie University
3:45pm The Role of the Private Sector, R & D and Innovation
British Speaker:
Professor J Stanley Metcalfe CBE, FRSA
Stanley Jevons Professor of Political Economy and Cobden Lecturer,
CRIC, University of Manchester
Topic: Systems
Failure and the Case for Innovation Policy
Canadian Speaker:
Dr Ed Levy
Adjunct Professor, Centre for Applied Ethics University of British
Colombia
Topic: Biotech
and Innovation: some governmental dos and don’ts
7:45pm Dinner
Speaker:
Dr James Young MD
Commissioner of Public Safety and Security Chief Coroner for the Province
of Ontario and Assistant Deputy Minister, Public Safety Division,
Ministry of Public Safety and Security
This dinner was sponsored by The Office of Science and Technology,
DTI
Saturday, November 22
9:00am Science and Education
British Speaker:
Sir Brian Fender CMG
Chairman BTG Plc
Canadian Speaker:
Professor Suzanne Fortier
Vice Principal Academic, Queen's University
Topic: Connecting
Science to Society: the Evolution of Science Curricula in Canadian
Universities
10:45am Science, Ethics and the Precautionary Principle
British Speaker:
Dame Ruth Deech DBE
Principal, St Anne's College, Oxford Univeristy
Topic: Science,
Ethics and the Precautionary Principle: Embryo Research in Britain
Canadian Speaker:
Dr Conrad Brunk
Director, Centre for the Studies of Religion and Science, University
of Victoria
Topic: Science, Ethics, and the Precautionary Principle
slides Colour
or Black&White.
2:00pm International Collaboration
British Speaker:
Professor Brian Wynne
Deputy Director, UK ESRC, Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of
Genomics, Lancaster University
Canadian Speaker:
Ms Karen Brown
Assistant Deputy Minister, Environment Canada
Topic: International
Collaboration: How distributed knowledge with a global dimension enters
public policy
3:45pm Rapporteur's Report
Professor Ron Amann Ac.SS, FRSA, Emeritus Professor,
University of Birmingham
Rapporteur's
Report: Science & Public Policy
4:00pm Colloquium Chairman's remarks and end of
formal sessions
7:45pm Dinner Professor Michael Gibbons and Professor
William Leiss, the Advisers to the 2003 Colloquium, will give
their reflections on the event
Remarks by Professor
William Leiss.
This dinner was sponsored by Centrica Plc.
