Climate Engineering Research: Responsible Innovation

该项目将支持一名在利益相关者和公众参与方面具有高度专业知识的兼职社会科学家，为期4个月a)在RCUK资助的SPICE项目及其所在的太阳辐射管理（SRM）的更广泛背景下，开展利益相关者测绘和参与计划；B)对更广泛的不确定性、道德、法律风险进行简短但批判性的审查。更广泛地与项目和SRM相关的治理和社会问题，以及c)将利益相关者参与工作和文献审查整合到一个更广泛的信息包中，提交给RCUK召集的独立阶段审查小组，该小组将建议SPICE测试平台是否应该继续进行，即通过参与活动的结果可以通知SPICE后续项目活动的机制。因此，这项研究将成为讨论突出的(即。2011年6月SPICE试验台阶段门小组（Macnaghten和Owen， Nature 2011）强调的“通过未决”标准，并将在该小组重新召集时再次进行重新评估。其次，它将对SRM领域的研究能够以安全、开放和负责任的方式进行的条件提供更普遍的重要理解。该研究人员（Jack Stilgoe）是新兴技术上游参与方面的专家，最近完成了ESRC / EPSRC资助（由Owen教授领导），以制定负责任创新（RI）框架大纲。他将使用这个框架来支持和指导这项研究。该研究将成为SPICE项目治理的重要投入，也是深化现有ESRC/EPSRC负责任创新项目框架的有价值的社会科学研究站点。

This project will support a part time, named social scientist with high expertise in stakeholder and public engagement for 4 months a) to undertake a programme of stakeholder mapping and engagement around the RCUK funded SPICE project and the wider context of Solar Radiation Management (SRM) within which it sits; b) to undertake a brief but critical review of the wider risk uncertainties, ethical, legal. governance and social issues associated with the project and SRM more generally, and c) to integrate the stakeholder engagement work and literature review into a broader package of information to be submitted to an independent stage gate review panel convened by RCUK which will recommend whether the SPICE testbed should go ahead i.e. a mechanism through which the results from the engagement activities can inform subsequent project activities by SPICE.This research will therefore be an important input to discussions regarding the outstanding (i.e. 'pass pending') criteria highlighted at the June 2011 SPICE Testbed Stage Gate panel (Macnaghten and Owen, Nature 2011), and which will be re-evaluated again when this panel is reconvened. Secondly, it will provide important understanding more generally of the conditions under which research in the field of SRM could progress in a way that is safe, open and responsible. The named researcher (Jack Stilgoe) is an expert in upstream engagement around emerging technologies and has recently completed an ESRC / EPSRC grant (led by Prof Owen) to develop an outline Responsible Innovation (RI) Framework. He will use this framework to support and inform the study. The study will be both an important input into the governance of the SPICE project, and a valuable social science research site within which to deepen the existing ESRC/EPSRC Framework for Responsible Innovation project.