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The Future of Science Governance: A review of public concerns, governance and institutional response
The reinvigoration of Scottish further education sector: an exploration and analysis of the recent reforms
In July 2012 the Scottish Government published ‘Reinvigorating College
Governance: the Scottish Response to The Report of the Review of Further
Education Governance in Scotland’. The Report advanced a radical new structure
for the Scottish Further Education (FE) sector and the overall impact has been
unparalleled, creating seismic transformations to its operating structure and
governance. The newly emerging paradigm overturned previous structural and
governance arrangements, rescaling the Scottish FE landscape. This paper
analyses the recent policy context unfolding within the Scottish FE sector;
illuminating the central driving forces and legitimising discourses behind the
current restructuring, cognisant of the emergent European educational policy
space. It argues that the emerging policy reforms for Scottish FE, commonly
referred to as ‘regionalisation’, is simultaneously a continuation and departure from
the governing structures set in place in the early 1990s. The paper offers
productive ways of framing thinking about the regionalisation of Scottish FE.
Consequently, it will be of interest to Scottish Government policy makers and those
working within or in partnership with the Scottish FE sector
Governing autonomous vehicles: emerging responses for safety, liability, privacy, cybersecurity, and industry risks
The benefits of autonomous vehicles (AVs) are widely acknowledged, but there
are concerns about the extent of these benefits and AV risks and unintended
consequences. In this article, we first examine AVs and different categories of
the technological risks associated with them. We then explore strategies that
can be adopted to address these risks, and explore emerging responses by
governments for addressing AV risks. Our analyses reveal that, thus far,
governments have in most instances avoided stringent measures in order to
promote AV developments and the majority of responses are non-binding and focus
on creating councils or working groups to better explore AV implications. The
US has been active in introducing legislations to address issues related to
privacy and cybersecurity. The UK and Germany, in particular, have enacted laws
to address liability issues, other countries mostly acknowledge these issues,
but have yet to implement specific strategies. To address privacy and
cybersecurity risks strategies ranging from introduction or amendment of non-AV
specific legislation to creating working groups have been adopted. Much less
attention has been paid to issues such as environmental and employment risks,
although a few governments have begun programmes to retrain workers who might
be negatively affected.Comment: Transport Reviews, 201
Geoengineering as Collective Experimentation.
Geoengineering is defined as the 'deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth's climatic system with the aim of reducing global warming'. The technological proposals for doing this are highly speculative. Research is at an early stage, but there is a strong consensus that technologies would, if realisable, have profound and surprising ramifications. Geoengineering would seem to be an archetype of technology as social experiment, blurring lines that separate research from deployment and scientific knowledge from technological artefacts. Looking into the experimental systems of geoengineering, we can see the negotiation of what is known and unknown. The paper argues that, in renegotiating such systems, we can approach a new mode of governance-collective experimentation. This has important ramifications not just for how we imagine future geoengineering technologies, but also for how we govern geoengineering experiments currently under discussion
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