- About CSPC
- CSPC2018 Themes
- CSPF Notes
- Code of Conduct
- Acknowledgements
Established in 2009, the Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC) meets an important need for a non-partisan, inclusive, national dialogue on science, technology and innovation policy. Their vision is to ensure systematic connections between Canada’s diverse scientific enterprises and policymakers in scientific enterprises and policymakers in political spheres, both federally and provincially. The CSPC has become Canada’s most comprehensive, multi-sectorial and multi-disciplinary annual science policy forum and attracted numerous politicians and hundreds of professionals from industry, academia, the non-profit sector, federal and provincial governments every year. The conference has traveled across Canada: Toronto (2009), Montreal (2010), Ottawa (2011), Calgary (2012), Toronto (2013), Halifax (2014), Ottawa (2015, 2016, 2017) and returns to Ottawa in 2018. The Canadian Science Policy Fellows were invited by Mitacs Canada to attend this conference as part of their fellowship. In the spirit of open science, Canadian Science Policy Fellow participants are trying to make this conference as open, accessible, and user-friendly as possible. This repository will store conference notes from participants who have agreed to share their summary notes, and also serves as a mechanism to receive feedback in the form of issues (please see the code of conduct).
The program at a glance contains all the sessions and information on the speakers and panels. The twitter handle for the conference uses the hashtag #CSPC2018.
Please find the summary of notes taken by Canadian Science Policy Fellows below:
- Shawn McGuirk's notes
- Alana Westwood's notes
- Noushin Nabavi's notes
- Konstantin Petoukhov's notes
- Lushani Nanayakkara's notes
The five themes of CSPC2018 and the associated talks are listed below.
| Science and Policy |
|---|
| Canada’s Climate Change Adaptation Platform as a Model for Science-Policy Integration |
| Connecting Science with Policy in Canada: how do I do it? |
| Federal-Provincial Coordination in Research and Innovation Funding |
| How can better federal-provincial collaboration strengthen Canada’s research ecosystem? |
| How Canada Can Create a Sustainable National Space Infrastructure |
| Integrating indigenous knowledge and western science in environmental decision-making |
| Managing Receiving Water: Can Canadian Water Policies and Regulations Address Current and Emerging Challenges? |
| New Ways of Informing Policy by Leveraging Scientific Knowledge: Two Models related to Public-Academic Collaborations |
| Risk Communication and Engagement with the Public in the Nuclear, Climate and Artificial Intelligence Sectors |
| Shaping science policy to improve equity, diversity and inclusion |
| Should science-based organizations define their risk tolerances?: A debate |
| Science and Society |
|---|
| Bridging Science and Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Best Practices |
| Communication culture: Scientists’ views and trainers’ methods to better engage with publics and policy-makers |
| Digital Futures: The Impact of Digital Threats to Democracy |
| Fake News, Fake Therapies: Upping the Ante in the Fight Against Unproven Stem Cell Therapies in Canada |
| From crisis to confidence: Building science and policy “bridges” in Canada’s national blood system |
| Granting agencies and participatory science in Canada |
| Improvisation for Science Communication |
| Incorporating indigenous ways of knowing into applied research |
| Science Fact or Science Fiction? How can science be heard in an age of misinformation? |
| The Dementia Challenge: Facing the Rising Tide |
| The Logic of Inclusive Innovation: From Inputs to Outcomes |
| The status of science literacy in Canada |
| Science, Innovation, and Economic Development |
|---|
| Commercializing Innovation in Canada: Retaining human and financial capital north of the border |
| Failure to Thrive: Why Canada Struggles to Grow World Leading Tech Companies |
| Harnessing Diversity and Inclusion to Drive Innovation in Canadian Science and Technology |
| Innovation and Sustainable Aging |
| Innovating Science Communication |
| Towards a Canadian Life Sciences Supercluster |
| What’s on the menu? Science-based: policies to address new agri-food realities |
| Science and International Affairs |
|---|
| International Science and Canada – Addressing Global Agenda 2030 Together |
| Science and The Next Generation |
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| A Data Native Generation’s Approach to Science: Science Instruction Vs. Inquiry into Science |
| Canada 2067 – lessons learned in building a national vision for STEM education |
| Enabling Interdisciplinarity for the Next Generation of Problem Solvers |
| Fueling Water Innovation in Atlantic Canada |
| La diversité des formes d’implication de la relève dans la gouvernance de la recherche |
| Science and Inclusvity: Going Beyond the Slogans |
| Supporting the next generation of northern scientists |
| Where the rubber meets the road: The real life impact of policy on Canadian postdocs |
| CSPC Short Talk Series |
|---|
| Amplify: Managing Microaggressions and Countering Stereotypes Against Women and Girls in STEM (Science and Society) |
| Conspiring Together for Good: Institutional Science and Religion (Science and Society) |
| Effecting and Managing Change by Introducing Artificial Intelligence into Map-Making (Science and Policy) |
| From crisis to confidence: Building science and policy “bridges” in Canada’s national blood system (Science and Society) |
| How a new model of journalism is connecting science and the public (Science and Society) |
| Putting our Minds Together: Research and Knowledge Management Strategy – BC Ministry of Health (Science and Policy) |
| Who is a science communicator? (Science and Society) |
| Symposia |
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| Brainstorming for Canada’s National Water Vision |
| Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Science: from Policy to Implementation |
| Policy and Funding Models for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows |
| Science Policy 101 |
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