The Science & Justice Research Center, co-led by Jenny Reardon and James Doucet-Battle, is a unique and world-renowned initiative that cultivates pedagogy and research capable of responding to moments where questions of science meet questions of ethics and justice. The center is home to the Science & Justice Working Group, graduate training programs, and sponsored research projects.
Your donation helps to support several interdisciplinary research projects and the Science & Justice Training Program, a nationally and internationally recognized graduate training program that trains the next generation of researchers to maximize both the public good of science and technology, and of the social sciences, including in the Sociology Department and Community Studies Program.
The Science & Justice Research Center brings together faculty and students from across the UC Santa Cruz campus and the UCs to innovate experimental civic spaces, collaborative modes of inquiry, and empirically rigorous research. It fosters emerging alliances between seemingly disparate sectors, disciplines, and communities to address the enormous challenges of contemporary societies, such as the governance of emerging technoscience, species extinction, and the ethics of big data and AI.