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Director's Message Member Spotlight:Ruby Heap Research

@Risk

Positive Energy

Innovation21

OutreachThe Past, Presentand Future ofScience Advice inCanada

The ISSP LunchSeries Food forThought (January)

SCIENCE, a Humanright

The ISSP LunchSeries Food forThought (February)

Les marées à venir :le cas de Québec

Teaching/TrainingThe ISSPCollaborativeMaster's

ISSP member andresearcher activities

Dear Rafael Dezordi, Welcome to this issue of the ISSP News, The ISSP has had a very active year to date in research, teaching andoutreach. In research, both our @Risk and Positive Energy projects advancedconsiderably on conducting, mobilizing and disseminating research on riskmanagement (@Risk) and public confidence in energy decision-making(Positive Energy). We were also delighted that our Senior Fellow MargaretMcCuaig-Johnston was interviewed by prominent Canadian media, regardinginternational relations between Canada and China. In teaching, the 2018 cohort in our Collaborative Master’s program inScience, Society and Policy are deep into coursework and we are recruitingfor next year. In outreach, we debuted our monthly lunch series Food for Thought, held ourfirst event of the year in French with the Centre de recherche en civilisationcanadienne-française, collaborated to organize a panel with the University ofOttawa's Human Rights Research and Education Centre and also collaboratedin a panel at the Institute on Governance. If the first two months are the blueprint for the rest of the year, 2019 willbode very well for excellence in multidisciplinary, cross-facultycollaboration, research and engagement. Stay tuned for upcoming events andopportunities to engage with the ISSP. Kind regards, Monica Gattinger, PhD

Ruby Heap is professor emerita at the University of Ottawa’s Department ofhistory. After completing her undergraduate studies and a master’s degree atMcGill University, she received a doctorate from the Université de Montréal.She helped establish women’s history as a field of teaching and research byteaching the first courses in this area at l’Université Laval, l’Université deMontréal and Concordia University (Loyola College). At the University ofOttawa, she successively held the position of director of the Women’s StudiesProgram and of founding-director of the Institute of Women’s Studies, whereshe hired its first two cross-appointed professors. Professor Heap is interested in the development of gender, as it relates to thespecific context of professions. While she initially focused on “women’sprofessions”, her recent research concerns engineering, as one of the“masculine” professions included in STEM (Science, technology, engineeringand mathematics). A Canada-US Fulbright fellowship brought her to theGeorgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta), where she compared the placesand roles of women and gender in Canadian and US technology. Meanwhile,her involvement in various organizations dedicated to the promotion ofwomen in engineering has been acknowledged through the President’s Awardof the Professional Engineers of Ontario, for services rendered to theprofession. Ruby Heap has been working over the years to develop a new field ofresearch at the intersection of the history of feminism and the history ofscience and engineering in Canada. She is also writing a book on the historyof the policies and initiatives adopted in Canada since the 1950s to recruitand retain young girls and women in science and engineering.

In recognition of her contributions to the field of women’s studies, shereceived the Royal Society of Canada’s 2018 Ursula Franklin Award in GenderStudies.

@Risk: Strengthening Canada’s Ability to Manage Risk, is a SSHRC / GenomeCanada funded two-year research project (2017-2019) that focuses on how toreconcile the tensions inherent in public decision-making in situations whereexperts and public stakeholders have different perceptions of risk andpreferences on how to mitigate risk. The research goal is to identifyconceptual frameworks and mechanisms to strengthen Canada’s riskmanagement capacity in situations where expert and lay public assessmentsof risk differ.

The @Risk Research Team has had a productive start to 2019: case studyleads are embarking on a new round of empirical data collection, researchersare writing up findings, and the interdisciplinary team is investigating keytheoretical concepts. We are looking forward to maintaining our momentumall the way through to the final @Risk workshop in May 2019, where the teamwill present and discuss the results of their work and plan the next steps forthe project.

Please visit the @Risk project website, our @Risk Twitter account orcontact Dr. Marisa Beck for more information.

Positive Energy uses the convening power of the university to bring togetheruniversity experts and key decision-makers from industry, government,Indigenous communities, local communities and environmental organizationsto determine how energy resources can be developed in a way that garnersacceptance and benefits society at large. Positive Energy undertakespragmatic, applied, solution-oriented research to find out what works, whatdoesn’t, and how various energy interests can seek and obtain broad socialsupport for energy policies, regulation and individual energy projects. The research team has officially kicked off its work on Canada's Energy Futurein an Age of Climate Change, the next three-year phase of the PositiveEnergy initiative. Current research interrogates political polarization aroundenergy issues in Canada–its causes, severity, and consequences. The teamhas been busy reviewing the literature, preparing fieldwork, planning events,and building new collaborations. Stay tuned— a public panel officiallylaunching the next phase of Positive Energy will take place in March and thefirst major conference will take place in June. Please visit our website, follow our Twitter account or contact Dr. MarisaBeck for more information.

The ISSP continues building its research portfolio on inclusive innovation foremerging and disruptive technologies. An exciting next step are the series of workshops co-organized by ISSPMembers Kelly Bronson and Sandra Schillo, along with ISSP Senior Fellow JeffKinder and Louise Earl from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Theseevents will take place at Institute on Governance, in collaboration with theISSP.

The ISSP and the Institute on Governance (IOG) were delighted to host anevent for Senior Fellows Paul Dufour and Jeff Kinder for the launch of theiredited volume The Lantern on the Bow: A History of the Science Council ofCanada and Its Contributions to The Science and Innovation Policy Debate. The book launch featured a panel discussion with Kristiann Allen, SciencePolicy Specialist at Office of the Chief Science Advisor / Canadian Institutes ofHealth Research; Janet Bax, Project Director, Council of CanadianAcademies; Eric Meslin, President and CEO of the Council of CanadianAcademies and Kathryn O’Hara, Adjunct Professor, School of Journalism,Carleton University, to explore the past, present and future of science policyand science advice in Canada.

The book is a labour of love by a collection of authors, many of whom wereassociated with the Science Council of Canada (SCC). Equally importantly,the book traces the SCC’s history and its contributions to important scienceand innovation policy issues which continue to resonate today, including:priority-setting in research, big science, STEM education, industrial innovationpolicy, concerns for the environment, the digital economy, science culture andscience diplomacy. Photos, bios of the participants and videos are available at the event'swebsite.

In January, the ISSP launched Food for Thought, a monthly, informal lunchtalk series for the uOttawa ISSP community. Each month, a different ISSPmember gives a short presentation about a current research project, leavingplenty of time for exchange and discussion. The newest ISSP member, Jason Millar, candidate for a Canada ResearchChair in Engineering and Society (Tier II) and Assistant Professor ofEngineering, kicked off the series with his talk, Data is People! EthicsCapacity-Building to Overcome Data-Agnosticism in AI.

Anticipating ethical issues in the design of artificial intelligence (AI), such asbias, fairness and accountability, starts with a deeper analysis of who the AIis impacting. However, AI system designers often work with datasets that areabstract, such that the people the data represents are no longer present inthe design process. In this design mode, de-personified data is just fodder forthe AI. Thus, it is quite understandable that ethical issues should emergefrom this way of making AI. In this talk, Professor Millar described some ofhis current research that aims to provide a design framework—Design forHuman Values—that prompts AI system designers to recognize that the datais people, and to explore the potential ethical issues that could arisegiven who the data represents.

The Human Rights Research and Education Centre, the Canadian Commissionfor UNESCO, the ISSP, and Scholars at Risk (SAR) uOttawa were delighted topresent SCIENCE, A Human Right.

Welcome Remarks were delivered by John Packer, Director, Human RightsResearch and Education Centre, University of Ottawa. Panelists were DickBougeois-Doyle, Writer and Science Administrator, former Secretary Generalof the National Research Council of Canada (NRC); Heather Morrison,Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Faculty of Arts, Universityof Ottawa and Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, Senior Fellow at the ISSP. ClosingRemarks were delivered by Viviana Fernandez, Assistant Director, HumanRights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa & SteeringCommittee Member of Scholars at Risk (SAR) Canada. For more information on the topic, please read "An Introduction toUNESCO's Updated Recommendation on SCIENCE and SCIENTIFICRESEARCHERS" and visit the event's website.

The ISSP organized the second Food for Thought lunch with Patrick McCurdy,Associate Professor in the Department of Communication. His conference wastitled Fanning Flames of Discontent: A Case Study of Social Media, Populism,and Energy Campaigning. On May 3, 2018, the Canadian Gas Association (CGA) penned an open letterto the Prime Minister expressing concern over reports that the federalgovernment was considering the conversion of the Canadian Centennial flamefrom natural gas to LED lighting (Canadian Gas Association, 2018). The lettermarked the start of the short-lived but successful #keepcanadasflamecampaign which resulted in the federal government backpedalling on plans toexplore less carbon-intensive options for the Centennial Flame. This talkused #keepcanadasflame as a case study to examine the role and power ofsocial media in the campaigning practices of Canada’s oil and gas lobby withinan ongoing struggle over Canada’s oil/tar sands.

The ISSP and the Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-françaisewere delighted to host a talk with Jean-Louis Trudel titled Les marées à venir: le cas de Québec. This activity was offered as part of FRA 3545,"Contemporary Literature of French Ontario".

Jean-Louis Trudel is the Francophone Writer in Residence for the ISSP, as wellas an author, historian and Part-Time Professor of the History Department,Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa.

Photos and bios are available at the event's website.

September 2018 marks the fourth year that the ISSP hasoffered its collaborative Master's Program with eleven participatingdepartments and faculties. We've continued to experience a steady rise inthe number of inquiries from students and faculty members alike aboutthe admission criteria and program requirements. The ISSP Collaborative Master's program provides an opportunityfor existing graduate students to gain additional training. To be accepted intothe Collaborative Master's program, students must be admitted to one of theparticipating programs at the University of Ottawa. For more information, please contact Professor Daniel Paré, the ProgramCoordinator.

Jackie Dawson, Core Member of the ISSP, as well asan Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa andCanada Research Chair in Environment, Society andPolicy (Tier II), was quoted in thearticle Canadian icebreaking capabilities not up tosnuff, experts say, written by Aidan Chamandy forThe Hill Times.

Paul Dufour, Senior Fellow of the ISSP, as well asAdjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa,launched The Lantern on the Bow: A History of theScience Council of Canada and Its Contributions to TheScience and Innovation Policy Debate, edited with JeffKinder. He also released his Compendium ofarticles, opinion pieces and blog posts.

Monica Gattinger, Director of the ISSP and Chair ofPositive Energy, as well as Full Professor, School ofPolitical Studies at the University of Ottawa, wasinterviewed by CFRA News and Views with RobSnow; Point du Jour of Radio-CanadaSaskatchewan and CBC New BrunswickNews with Harry Forestell, as well as quoted in theBloomberg Environment article Canada’s Yellow-Vest-Like Convoy Protests Trudeau’s GreenAgenda, all concerning the Alberta truck convoy;by Boulevard du Pacifique of Radio-CanadaBritish-Columbia; Ça parle au Nord of Radio-Canada Sudbury; Pour faire un monde of Radio-Canada Saskatchewan and La Croisée of RadioCanada Alberta to discuss the National EnergyBoard’s Trans-Mountain Pipeline expansionproject decision. Professor Gattinger was also themediator at the Canada 2020 Global EnergyOutlook 2019 panel which featured Dr. FatihBirol, Executive Director of the International EnergyAgency and The Honorable Amarjeet Sohi, Minister ofNatural Resources.

Rees Kassen, ISSP Core member, as well as FullProfessor, Department of Biology, University ofOttawa, became a member of the Science SteeringCommittee of bioGENESIS, an initiative of FutureEarth. bioGENESIS aims at providing an evolutionaryframework for biodiversity science. It plays a key role

in catalyzing the international communication that isneeded to tackle problems in a timely fashion and on aglobal scale, thus promoting a truly integrative,socially relevant biodiversity science.

Jeremy Keer, ISSP Core member, as well as FullProfessor, Department of Biology, University ofOttawa, has been elected to serve as Acting Chair ofNSERC Council, adding to his responsibilities as Chairof NSERC’s Committee on Discovery Research.Professor Kerr was in Mexico for the announcementthat monarch butterfly populations grew by 140%over the past year. His visit was featured in the CBCarticle Monarch butterfly resurgence might nottake flight, says Ottawa prof. Dr. Kerr alsocontributed to public science efforts through a relatedpresentation in the “Curiosity on Stage” program atCanada’s Museum of Science and Technology.Discoveries related to global gradients of biodiversityhave just been published by the Kerr lab: JuanZuloaga and Jeremy Kerr. 2019. The origins andmaintenance of global gradients of endemism.Global Ecology & Biogeography

Jeff Kinder, Senior Fellow at the ISSP, as well asExecutive Director, Science and Innovation at theInstitute on Governance (IOG), launched TheLantern on the Bow: A History of the Science Councilof Canada and Its Contributions to The Science andInnovation Policy Debate, edited with Paul Dufour.

Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, Senior Fellow at theISSP, was interviewed by CTV National News; CBC'sThe National; The Vancouver Sun and BNNBloomberg News to discuss international relationsbetween Canada and China. McCuaig-Johnston alsowrote an Op-ed for the Ottawa Citizen, titled China'son the brink of losing some of its best friendsand collaborators and spoke at SCIENCE, A HumanRight, presented by The Human Rights Research andEducation Centre, the Canadian Commission forUNESCO, the ISSP, and Scholars at Risk (SAR)uOttawa.

Daniel Paré, ISSP Core Member, as well as AssociateProfessor, Department of Communication, and Schoolof Information Studies, University of Ottawa, has beenappointed Open Government Partnership’s interimIndependent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) National

Researcher for Canada. Professor Paré will beresponsible for assessing the development and designof the Canadian government’s 2018-2020 NationalAction Plan on Open Government.

Marc Saner, Inaugural Director and Core Member ofthe ISSP, as well as Full Professor and Chair of theGeography, Environment and Geomatics Departmentat the University of Ottawa published A criticalreview of ecosystem accounting and servicesframeworks, written with Michael Bordt.

Jeffrey Simpson, Advisory Council Member ofPositive Energy, as well as retired national affairscolumnist at The Globe and Mail, published acommentary entitled Uncertainty and Confusion inCanada’s Natural Resource Development, with theMacdonald-Laurier Institute.

Gregor Wolbring, Senior Fellow, ISSP, GenomicsCluster Collaborator, ISSP @Risk project, as well as Associate professor, Cumming School ofMedicine, University of Calgary, won the the Fall 2018Bachelor of Health Sciences, Cumming School ofMedicine Research Mentor Award. He alsopublished Impact of robotics and humanenhancement on occupation: what does it meanfor rehabilitation?, written with Manel Djebrouni.

Editor-in-chief: Monica Gattinger Writers: Marisa Beck, Rafael Dezordi and Monica Gattinger

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