The Institute for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP) is a multi-disciplinary unit at the

University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa (french: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottawa ...

, Canada. It has a teaching, research and outreach mandate in the fields of

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History

The ISSP was founded based on an initiative of David Castle, Canada Research Chair in Science and Society at the University of Ottawa from 2006 to 2010. Its operations started in 2010 with the hiring of the Inaugural Director,

Marc Saner Marc Saner (born 1961) is a Full Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada and Departmental Science Advisor to Natural Resources Canada. Education Saner studied biology at the University of Basel, Switzerland (PhD, 1991) and philosophy at Car ...

who headed the ISSP until 2015 when its first graduate program was launched. The current director is Monica Gattinger.

About the ISSP

The Institute for Science, Society and Policy has participation of scholars from six different faculties. Located in Ottawa, it also draws on connections in the public service as well as diplomatic and political circles. It hosted, for example,

David Willets David Linsay Willetts, Baron Willetts, (born 9 March 1956) is a British politician and life peer. From 1992 to 2015, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Havant in Hampshire. He served as Minister of State for ...

, then Minister of State for Universities and Science of the United Kingdom and secured high-level endorsement for its Innovation Decalogue. The ISSP holds numerous events examining current issues at the intersection of science and policy. It also provides information services such as the archives of the

Science Council of Canada The Science Council of Canada (SCC) was a Canadian governmental advisory board existing from 1966 to 1993. It originally had 25 scientists and senior civil servants, later expanded to 40 natural and physical scientists, with the civil servants remo ...

(1966-1992) and the Council of Science and Technology Advisors (1996-2006). Its knowledge mobilization services include a series of reports on the science policy interface.

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Institute for Science, Society and Policy
University of Ottawa Science and technology in Canada 2010 establishments in Ontario Educational institutions established in 2010