Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes (CSPO)
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona

Submission Deadline: 25 October 2009

Workshop: 16-19 May 2010

The Workshop for the Next Generation of Science and Technology Policy Leaders aims to build a small community of particularly promising early career individuals who can participate effectively in science and technology policy (STP) activities, broadly construed, taking advantage of the current national attention given to STP issues and dilemmas.

The workshop constitutes the heart of a larger Conference on the Rightful Place of Science that CSPO is organizing. The conference and workshop will convene Monday morning 17 May 2010 and adjourn mid-day on Wednesday 19 May 2010, with additional workshop sessions on Sunday 16 May 2010 and the afternoon of Wednesday 19 May 2010. Next Generation participants will share special events at the Conference with internationally prominent keynote speakers and “exemplars” of science and policy practice.

CSPO calls for proposals to participate in the Workshop. A complete proposal consists of three parts:

1. an abstract summarizing research activities that will be presented at the workshop, including a choice of theme track (see below);
2. a brief essay on the significance of the research topic for real-world science and technology policy problems; and
3. biographical information.

Each item is limited to one page of single-spaced text.

Eligible applicants will have received their PhD (or other terminal degree) in 2004 or more recently and will not be in a tenured position. Selection criteria will be (1) intellectual quality; (2) clear relevance to STP issues; and (3) evidence of effective communication skills.

Twelve participants will be fully supported. Successful applicants will have their participation in the Workshop and Conference funded by CSPO and will receive an honorarium for writing both a scholarly paper and a paper on the same subject but for more general audiences.

Proposals must be submitted to one of six theme tracks:

1. Responsible Innovation: How can we improve the decisions that individuals, organizations, and governments make throughout the process of knowledge-based innovation?
2. Sustainability and Adaptability: How can we construct and maintain good social and institutional relationships with nature and with one another to respond to a changing planet and ensure a fair and prosperous future for humanity?
3. Science, Technology, and Global Affairs: How do we create, evaluate, and deliberate on the knowledge and technological systems necessary for a globalizing world, across the multitude of cultural understandings of both deliberation and knowledge in that world?
4. Technological Systems and Infrastructures: How can we understand and manage the complex systems and structures we build and depend on – and which seem to have a momentum of their own?
5. Healthy & Just Societies: How can human well-being and justice become a central element of research, innovation, and development?
6. Securing our Common Future: How can we create a shared sense of individual and mutual security in a politically and technologically dynamic – and culturally diverse – world?

Submit proposal materials by October 25th to cspo@asu.edu.