Events

2020

• Policymakers, Regulators and Courts – Who Decides What, When and How? The Evolution of Regulatory Independence

  

  On Wednesday, October 28 2020, Positive Energy hosted a virtual workshop to examine regulatory independence and effectiveness in Canada. The workshop convened over 25 senior energy leaders to discuss how various actors and decision-makers in the Canadian energy system understand regulatory independence and its evolution over time.

• Autonomous Robot Highways in the Soft Fruit Sector

  

  On Wednesday, October 21, 2020, at 12:00 PM, the Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue Project on AI for Healthy Humans and Environments at the AI + Society Initiative, in collaboration with the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, the ISSP and the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, presents a talk with Prof. David Christian Rose, Elizabeth Creak Associate Professor of Agricultural Innovation and Extension at the University of Reading, in the UK.

• The Mind-Brain Relationship and Addiction

  

  On Tuesday, October 20, from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM, the ISSP and the RCIS invited you to an expert panel discussion about the Mind-Brain Relationship and Addiction.

• Food for Thought: Science, Society and Policy in the Age of COVID19: What Changes will Stick? Which will Prove Fleeting?

  

  On Thursday, September 24, at 12:00 PM, the Institute for Science, Society and Policy hosted a diverse group of ISSP members from Canada and the United States to tackle COVID-19 issues.

• Renegotiating the Social Contract between Science and Society

  

  On February 27, at 12:00 PM, the ISSP is delighted to host Rhonda Moore, Practice Lead, Science and Innovation, Institute on Governance (IOG).

• Inclusive Innovation: Perspectives and Practices

  

  The ISSP was delighted to host a workshop on inclusive innovation on February 24th, from 8:45 AM to 12:45 PM.

• How to Publish More

  

  On Thursday February 13^th 2020, from 2:30 pm to 4 pm, at 30 Stewart (room 312), Mark Salter, Core Member of the ISSP and Leader of the Risk, Technology and Security Research Cluster, presented the How to Publish More Workshop.

  Writing a lot is the dream of some and a necessity for many. Each professor is a writer, but sometimes the writing of a book or an article becomes a challenge. This workshop will present strategies to overcome the barriers to writing and will discuss tactics to improve your writing productivity and will also introduce tactics on how to publish more.

• A Melting Arctic - Implications of sea-ice loss on governing the Arctic

  

  On January 30, at 13:30 PM, the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) and the ISSP invited you to a talk about the Arctic, which will convene experts and practitioners with different perspectives on the challenges in a changing Arctic region.

• What you may not know about China’s innovation system

  

  On January 30, at 12:00 PM, the ISSP was delighted to host Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, Senior Fellow of the ISSP, University of Ottawa.

• How do we know it’s true? Can we mobilize all forms of knowledge?

  

  On January 13, at 4:30 PM, the ISSP and the Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue were delighted to host a panel of experts to discuss the current status of knowledge mobilization and truth.