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The 2009 conference is hosted by The Science Shop, Queen's University Belfast
Eileen Martin has been Manager of The Science Shop at Queen’s University Belfast for ten years. More recently she has been involved in developing the Queen’s in the Community initiative and has co-ordinated the development of the Queen’s Community Outreach Strategy. In addition she has worked on a voluntary basis on a number of community projects in the Glens of Antrim. She holds a Masters Degree in Applied Anthropology and previously held a research post at Queen’s. She has participated in previous EU funded Science Shop projects including ISSNET and INTERACTS.
Dr Emma McKenna has been Co-ordinator of The Science Shop at Queen’s University Belfast since 2001. She holds a PhD in Sociology and previously worked for the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action and for the Women’s Support Network. She has been involved in supporting new Science Shops across the UK and Ireland and has been on the organising committee for the last two International Science Shop conferences.
Dr. Henk A. J. Mulder is a chemist/environmental scientist and co-ordinator of the Science Shop and Chair of the Education Board of the Master Programme Science Communication of the University of Groningen, Netherlands. The past decade, he has been active as: co-ordinator of the project that introduced Science Shops at Romanian universities (financed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs), initiator and WP-leader for the EU-funded SCIPAS-project, partner in the EU funded project ISSNET (Improving Science Shop Networking), and work package leader for the mentoring of new science shops in the EU funded project TRAMS. His current research concerns the role of societal organisations in the nano-debate.
Norbert Steinhaus obtained his masters degree in Agriculture in 1986. In 1988 he joined the Wissenschaftsladen Bonn and became member of the board in 1990. Norbert Steinhaus was involved and is experienced in the organisation of national and international workshops and conferences, website development and maintenance as well as the dissemination of results and exchange of experience on national and international level. He participated in the international cooperation projects TRAMS and CIPAST as work package coordinator to provide network partners and intermediaries with information via electronic newsletters, websites and printed magazines. For the FP6 project EFSUPS, an educational project for primary schools and kindergartens, he took the task of the project coordinator. Since the end of 2007 he is the coordinator and international contact point of LIVING KNOWLEDGE, the international Science Shop network.
I, Gerard Straver MSc. (1957), am coordinator of the Science Shop of Wageningen University and Research Centre (Wageningen UR), The Netherlands. In 1985 I obtained my Master of Science degree in tropical agriculture at Wageningen University. After my graduation he worked in different countries for governmental and non-governmental organisations in the fields of rural development and natural resources management. Since 2001 I am employed as senior staff member in the Staff Department Research & Education of the Wageningen University and Research Centre. My work consists of:
- Management of the science shop
- Co-ordination of research projects commissioned by civil society organizations such as consumer organisations, patient organizations, farmer groups, village committees, nature and environmental activist groups etc.
- Training of researchers in the concept of science shop research
- Communication on science shop research projects
In my work I like to design research projects with local civil society groups, researchers and students. Participation in research projects of different stakeholders increases their complexity but also their chances to success. Linking local cases to scientific theory and placing them in a national or global context is another interesting aspect of my work. For me, the development of the science shop concept is a fascinating challenge.
Bill Peterman is an emeritus professor of geography at Chicago State University. He has over 35 years of experience in providing research and technical assistance to local neighborhoods and community organizations. He was the director of the Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the coordinator of the Fredrick Blum Neighborhood Assistance Center at Chicago State University. Since 2004 he has been working with academic staff at the University of Bristol on community engagement issues.
Kim Treasure has a background in community engagement and supporting the participation of communities often absent from public and policy fora. Following a career in community education projects and in the NGO sector, Kim moved into working in higher education as a Community Engagement Manager in a research intensive university. Kim is now Strategic Development Officer for the Science Shops Wales Network where she focuses on developing participatory student research services and supporting Welsh universities to develop their own science shop. Kim is dual US/UK citizen and has presented peer assessed papers in
Dr Roger O'Sullivan is the Director of the Centre for Aging Research and Development in Ireland ( www.cardi.ie ).
He has previously worked in Queen's University Belfast and for the non government organisation - Rural Community Network (NI). From 2001-2007 he sat on the Science Shop Advisory Group and was a keynote speaker at the Second Living Knowledge Conference in 2005 speaking on the importance of partnership research.
Ils De Bal obtained her masters degree in communication sciences and started her career in the field of sales and marketing. After 5 years of sales experiences, she changed her professional direction and started to work for the Science Shop Brussels at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Nowadays she is the coordinator of the Science Shop Brussels and the national network of Science Shops Flanders. As a staff member of the Science Communication Office which is part of the Research and Development department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, she is actively involved in the construction of a solid relation between society and research through the Science Shop-concept.
Khan Rahi is a Community-based Researcher. He is the Program Manager of the US based Loka Institute and Management Consultant with the Canadian Community-based Research Network. He is the former Co-ordinator of the Loka Institute’s Community-based Research Network (CRN). Khan has been actively involved with the European based Science Shops and the Living Knowledge Network since its inception (2000) and has been a member of the organizing teams of the previous conferences held in Leuven (2001), Seville (2005) and Paris (2007). Khan’s research and publications has focused on civic engagement in science and technology, settlement and integration of immigrants and refugees and community economic development in the US, Canadian and European contexts. He maintains active research and advisory roles in regional and international networks and consortiums. Khan has an MA in Sociology and an Adjunct Lecturer appointment at University of Toronto. Khan is an Afghan-Canadian living in Toronto.
John Barry is Reader in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy and Associate Director of the Institute for a Sustainable World at Queens University Belfast. He has written extensively about normative aspects of environmental politics, citizenship and sustainability; the political economy of sustainability and the politics of renewable energy. His publications include, Rethinking Green Politics: Nature, Virtue, Progress (Sage, 1999) [Winner of the PSA's WJM Mackenzie Prize for best book published in political science 1999]; Environment and Social Theory, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2007), with John Proops, Citizenship, Sustainability and Environmental Research, (Edward Elgar, 2000); and has co-edited (with Marcel Wissenburg), Sustaining Liberal Democracy: Ecological Challenges and Opportunities, (Palgrave, 2001); (with Gene Frankland) The International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics, (Routledge, 2001); (with Robyn Eckersley), The State and the Global Ecological Crisis (MIT Press, 2005). He is also co-editor of the journal Environmental Politics and Ecopolitics online. He is currently working on a monograph on green politics, vulnerability, political economy and civic republicanism.