STS Hub Awarded a Community Research Development Grant from the National Science Foundation
“Research Ethics in STEM: Network Building and Graduate Student Training” is funded jointly by the NSF Science, Technology and Society program and the Ethics and Responsible Research program. The investigative team is Martha Kenney, PI (WGS), Laura Mamo, Co-I (HEI and PH), Martha Lincoln. Co-I (ANTH), and Juliette Hua Co-I (WGS, now at UC Davis). During the three-year grant period, the STS Hub Faculty Fellows program will establish a research community and MA-level student training program organized around annual themes selected for the ways they demand both interdisciplinary and public engagement around themes of Viral Politics: From HIV to Covid-19 and Beyond and AI, Automation and Algorithmic Justice.
Four objectives drive our proposed activities, building on our established STS Hub infrastructure:
Objective 1: To incubate an STS research community of faculty and graduate student Fellows in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM disciplines, who convene regularly to develop STS resources and programming and engage in interdisciplinary collaboration.
Objective 2: To seed collaborative STS research by designing and implementing year-long thematic research programs structured by a series of events and workshops.
Objective 3: To provide STS research training, mentorship, and professional development for graduate students to increase the diversity of perspectives in the field of STS.
Objective 4: To create a sustainable STS Hub that includes local and transnational constituents, SFSU faculty, and graduate students and broadly disseminate collaborative research.
