Tagged: science commission

A foil to the populist scourge: towards a Science Commission for New Zealand? - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Sep 24, 2018 •

• advice,
• New Zealand,
• policy,
• politics,
• scicomm,
• science commission,
• science communication

While writing about the demise of Jacqueline Rowarth’s role as head of the New Zealand Environment Protection Agency (NZ EPA), Peter Griffin (former head of the Science Media Centre) also covers progress towards a NZ Science Commission. His piece provides an useful opportunity to revisit this initiative, raised during the election, and how it seems to be going sideways since. Read More

What do you want in a science commission? - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Oct 22, 2017 •

• New Zealand,
• Office of the NZ Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor,
• parliament,
• politics,
• Prime Minister,
• science commission

Now that New Zealand has a government, we can look to what they might do. Several parties offered to reorganise the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor role, and to introduce a Science Commission. How would you like to see this role work? I’m going to offer a few suggestions to encourage people to put their ideas forward in the comments … Read More