Impact of Science 2018

Ottawa, Canada

14 June 2018

Finding shared approaches to assess, enable and accelerate impact on society

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Canada has been successful the last years in calling for more attention to the position of Canada worldwide in their research intensity and innovation. This has led to a variety of evaluations and strategies, most notably, the Fundamental Science Review , the Innovation and Skills agenda, and more recently the Superclusters initiative. Furthermore the three federal research councils, as well as the CFI and several provinces, have been aiming to evaluate funded projects on more than just academic impact. Finally the government has reintroduced the position of Chief Science Advisor in order to generate more evidence-informed policymaking. These prospects and initiatives share one common goal: setting realistic targets for assessing, enabling and advancing the societal impact of science.

The AESIS Network has successfully organised the annual conference ‘Impact of Science’ five times, bringing together experts such as R&D evaluators, university managers, research councils, policy makers, funders, and other stakeholders of impact. The goal is sharing, evaluating and discussing best practices around the world on:

  • Policy strategies for societal impact
  • Creating (long-term) alliances between stakeholders
  • Regional, national and international instruments for evaluating and achieving impact
  • Current issues on i.e. public engagement, evidence-based policy, interdisciplinary approaches and harmonising definitions and assumptions.

In its approaches the AESIS Network is convinced that societal impact:

  • can only be robust based on a well-balanced insight on how the impact of science on society can be measured;
  • should investigate the impact of the humanities, the social sciences and the hard sciences in one comparable approach for accountability;
  • should include both the societal impact of scientific research and university education.

The political momentum and current research eco-system in Canada are an excellent and indeed inspirational context to foster the worldwide debates on impact. At the same time, several international perspectives can offer valuable and critical evaluations to the current progress and obstacles in Canada. Thus, the AESIS Network and its partners are excited to organise the ’Impact of Science 2018’ conference in Ottawa.

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Confirmed speakers

Koenraad Debackere - Chair of the Programme

Koenraad Debackere - Chair of the Programme

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Jonathan Adams

Jonathan Adams

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Katherine Amato

Katherine Amato

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Robert Annan

Robert Annan

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Jeremy Ayers

Jeremy Ayers

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Jonathan Bagger

Jonathan Bagger

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Ridha Ben-Mrad

Ridha Ben-Mrad

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Amy Cook

Amy Cook

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Claire Donovan

Claire Donovan

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Cynthia Goh

Cynthia Goh

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Richard Gordon

Richard Gordon

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Kathryn Graham

Kathryn Graham

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Magnus Gulbrandsen

Magnus Gulbrandsen

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Robert Haché

Robert Haché

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Yuko Harayama

Yuko Harayama

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Chad Hartnell

Chad Hartnell

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Tamika Heiden

Tamika Heiden

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Brent Herbert-Copley

Brent Herbert-Copley

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Rush Holt

Rush Holt

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Chris James

Chris James

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Pari Johnston

Pari Johnston

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Martin Kirk

Martin Kirk

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Christian Kobsda

Christian Kobsda

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Jean Lebel

Jean Lebel

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Burton Lee

Burton Lee

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Guy Levesque

Guy Levesque

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David MaGee

David MaGee

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Meghan McMahon

Meghan McMahon

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Barend van der Meulen

Barend van der Meulen

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Gabriel Miller

Gabriel Miller

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wendy Naus

wendy Naus

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Mona Nemer

Mona Nemer

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Sean Newell

Sean Newell

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Lara O'Donnell

Lara O'Donnell

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Mikael Östling

Mikael Östling

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Gilles Patry

Gilles Patry

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David Phipps

David Phipps

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Rémi Quirion

Rémi Quirion

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Anna Ragén

Anna Ragén

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Alice Rajewsky

Alice Rajewsky

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Susan Renoe

Susan Renoe

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André Roos

André Roos

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Kennan Salinero

Kennan Salinero

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Tobin Smith

Tobin Smith

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Cassidy Sugimoto

Cassidy Sugimoto

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David Sweeney

David Sweeney

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Cara Tannenbaum

Cara Tannenbaum

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Pierre Therrien

Pierre Therrien

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Christine Trauttmansdorff

Christine Trauttmansdorff

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Crystal Tremblay

Crystal Tremblay

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