Draft Outline For Responsible Innovation Workshop, April / May 2011

Franco-British workshop on responsible innovation London, 23-24 May 2011
Françoise RUSSO-MARIE
Research Director at INSERM ( French National Health and Medical Research Institute)
Director of the Genopole® research department
Françoise Russo-Marie obtained her MD and PhD at the University of Paris VII and holds the title of Research
Director of INSERM (French National Health and Medical Research Institute). She has been appointed as
director of the Genopole® research department. She has been chair of an INSERM Research Unit for 12 years,
has created and led a biotechnology company where she worked as CEO and CSO, has monitored and
evaluated 2 of the major French Institutes of Research.
Françoise Russo-Marie research activities were developed in the domain of cell biology, with the aim of
understanding the mechanisms of corticosteroids in inflammatory diseases. She has contributed to the
discovery of annexins and devoted most of her research to study structure-function relationships of annexins.
Jack STILGOE
Senior Policy Adviser, Royal Society
Jack Stilgoe is Senior Policy Adviser at the Royal Society, where he looks after work on science, innovation and
governance. Before the Royal Society, he spent four years at the independent think tank Demos, leading work
on science and society. He is author of Citizen Scientists (Demos, 2008) Nanodialogues (Demos, 2007), The
Received Wisdom (Demos, 2006) and The Public Value of Science (Demos, 2005). He has published academic
papers in the journals Science and Public Policy, Public Understanding of Science and Science, Technology and
Human Values. He is on the editorial board of Public Understanding of Science. He is an honorary research
fellow of University College London and a Demos associate.
Andy STIRLING
Professor of Science and Technology Policy - Research Director at SPRU (Science and Technology Policy
Research) - University of Sussex
Andy Stirling is Professor of Science and Technology Policy and Research Director at SPRU (science and
technology policy research) at the University of Sussex, where he co-directs the ESRC Centre on 'Social,
Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability' (STEPS; jointly with IDS) and the Sustainable
Lifestyles Research Group (SLRG; jointly with Surrey). He has a background in natural and social science,
working formerly as an archaeologist, then a disarmament and environment activist. For twenty years, he has
been an interdisciplinary researcher and policy adviser, focusing on challenges in the governance of science,
technology and innovation – including: ‘risk’, ‘uncertainty’ and ‘precaution’; ‘sustainablity’, ‘resilience’ and
‘diversity’; and ‘participation’, ‘transformation’ and ‘power’. He has published widely on these issues and
served on several public advisory bodies including EU committees on Energy Policy, Science in Society, Public
Engagement, Sustainable Development, Science Governance. In the UK, he has served on the Advisory
Committee on Toxic Substances, GM Science Review Panel, DEFRA Science Advisory Council and the BIS
Sciencewise Expert Group – as well as working groups for the Royal Society and Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
Kathy SYKES – OBE
Professor of Sciences and Society at the University of Bristol
Since 2002, Kathy has worked on culture shift in Universities, funding bodies and Government, helping
improve dialogue with the public, to make better policy decisions and do better research.
Kathy has sat, or sits, on strategic panels in public engagement in science for many funders of science and
learned societies, for examples the Royal Society, the Wellcome Trust, and the EPSRC. She was a member of
the Council for Science and Technology, the government's top advisory body on science and technology policy
issues, advising the Prime Minister from 2004-2010. She chairs the 'Sciencewise' Strategy Group, which aims to
increase and improve public dialogue on science and technology across Government Departments and
Agencies.
She helped to create the hands-on science centre Explore AtBristol, the Times Cheltenham Science Festival and
NESTA Famelab - a national, but increasingly international, competition which talent-spots and trains new
science communicators. She presents television science programmes and comments in the media about
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