ResIST
Researching Inequality Through Science and Technology
This Project’s objective is to understand processes that contribute to the increase in inequalities through the role of Science and Technology, but also to understand processes that contribute to mitigate inequalities throughScience and Technology. The enhanced role of Science and Technology in the global knowledge economy gives such understanding urgency.
ResIST Will:
WP 0: This work package will act as a space for interrogation of and dialogue with the work of the five work packages with the aim of retaining focus on the overall objectives of the project to facilitate policy and practice which can support balanced growth. In a horizontal activity, involve policemaker and practioner stakeholders in three representative world regions – in Europe, in Southern Africa and in the Carabbean and Latin America – in the process of developing and implementing options identified in the project. In particular use the insigthts developed in 1-5 to test with stakeholder audiences the scope to develop tools to assess Science and Technology policy options to achieve wider social inclusiveness for developed and developing countries and the possible distributional impacts of research programmes;
WP 1: Analyse how global policy contexts for key Science and Technology processes affect the distribution of knowledge resources, and the scope for alternative framings;
WP 2: Identify the features of effective policies and programmes to build Science and Tehnology human capital and institucional capacity in disadvantaged populations and places;
WP 3A: Critically assess new iniciatives to construct Science and Technology priorities reflecting the needs of the disadvantaged, and review current constraints and future opportunities for their full realization;
WP 3B: Map structures of accountability channels in order to incorporate the needs of the disadvantaged;
WP 4: Model the impact of new research–based technologies on the poor through dynamics such as employment, lowering costs, and impact on public services.
The Portuguese team participates actively in two of the five project work packages – WP0 and WP3. Regarding WP0, the following results are expected: three workshops will be held on thematic areas of interest within the context of the project (these will take place in Europe, Southern Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean); framing of the issue relating to structural, representational and distributional inequalities in empowerment in Science and Technology; two progress reports; final report and two policy-oriented documents.
WP3 is expected to yield the following results: a preliminary draft and a revised draft of the framework integrated in the project; conducting case studies and producing reports on same; contributing to the synthesis of work carried out by the teams and involvement of the different, interested players in regional meetings to be held within the context of WP0
On a general level, we also anticipate several publications (national and international).
Reports
Resist Final Report - Volume 1
Rob Hagendijk, Peter Healey, Tiago Santos Pereira
Relatório de Investigação. Oxford: Said Business School, 2009
Projecto ResIST: Researching Inequality through Science and Technology
Articulating New Accountability Systems: Integrated Framework
João Arriscado Nunes, Steve Woolgar, Marisa Matias, Ana Raquel Matos, Daniel Neves, Peter Healey, Daniel Neyland, Rob Hagendijk
Research Report. Coimbra e Oxford: CES e Said Business School, 2008
New Accountability Systems: Experimental Initiatives and Inequalities in Public Policy and Health Care Domains
João Arriscado Nunes, Marisa Matias, Ana Raquel Matos, Daniel Neves
Research Report. Coimbra: CES, 2008
Articulating New Accountability Systems: Preliminary Integrated Framework
João Arriscado Nunes, Steve Woolgar, Marisa Matias, Daniel Neyland, Ana Raquel Matos, Daniel Neves, Rob Hagendijk
Research Report. Coimbra e Oxford: CES e Said Business School, 2007
Presentations
Arriscado Nunes, João; Matias, Marisa; Matos, Ana Raquel; Neves, Daniel (2008), "Accountability through Participation: Emerging Configurations of Knowledge and Active Citizenship", presentation to the 4S/EASST "Acting with Science, Technology and Medicine", Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 20-23 August.
Nunes, João Arriscado; Matias, Marisa; Neves, Daniel; Matos, Ana Raquel (2008), "'Um direito de todos, um dever do Estado': A participação pública e o controlo social a partir da experiência dos Conselhos de Saúde", presentation to the VI Congresso Português de Sociologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 25-28 June.
Nunes, João Arriscado; Matias, Marisa; Neves, Daniel; Matos, Ana Raquel (2008), "'Para o povo, com o povo e desde o povo': os orçamentos participativos enquanto instrumentos de participação e capacitação pública", presentation to the VI Congresso Português de Sociologia: Mundos sociais, saberes e práticas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 25-28 June.
Matos, Ana Raquel; Neves, Daniel (2008), "Participação pública, capacitação e sistemas de accountability: Experiências de Orçamento Participativo na América Latina e na Europa em comparação", presentation to the Workshop pré-colóquio "Os Jovens e os Caminhos de Futuro", Centro de Estudos Sociais, Coimbra, 18-28 June.
Nunes, João Arriscado; Matias, Marisa; Matos, Ana Raquel; Neves, Daniel (2008), "Participação pública e capacitação: experiências comparadas na Europa e Brasil", presentation to the VII Jornadas ESOCITE, Jornadas Latino-Americanas de Estudos Sociais das Ciências e das Tecnologias, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, 28-30 May.
Nunes, João Arriscado; Matias, Marisa; Neves, Daniel; Matos, Ana Raquel (2008), "'Um direito de todos e um dever do Estado': a participação pública e o controlo social a partir da experiência dos Conselhos de Saúde", presentation to the II Jornadas de Ciências Sociais e Humanas em Saúde, Escola Superior de Tecnologias da Saúde, 04-05 April.
Matias, Marisa; Allegretti, Giovanni; Cunha, Eleonora (2007), "As Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação na gramática dos Orçamentos Participativos: tensões e desafios de uma abordagem essencialmente subordinada", presentation to the II Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores em Comunicação e Política, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil, 05-07 December.
Matias, Marisa; Allegretti, Giovanni; Cunha, Eleonora (2007), "ICT Technologies within the Grammar of Participatory Budgeting: Tensions and Challenges of a mainly ‘Subordinate Clause’ Approach", presentation to the Colloquium “Changing politics through digital networks: The role of ICTs in the formation of new social and political actors and actions”, Florence, Italy, 05-07 October.
Nunes, João Arriscado; Matias, Marisa (2007), "L’émergence de la santé collective: une réflexion "ancrée" sur la politique ontologique", presentation to the Colloque Expérimenter, éprouver, assembler, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, École Supérieure des Mines de Paris, 27-28 September.
James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization, Said Business School Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford, UK;
University of Leeds, UK;
Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, NIFU STEP, Norway;
Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal;
University of Malta, Malta;
Ortadogu Teknopark A.S, Turkey;
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique;
Stellenbosch University, South Africa;
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V, Germany;
The Technology Policy and Assessment Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
Carmen Diego
Daniel Neves
João Arriscado Nunes (coord)
Marisa Matias
Tiago Santos Pereira