democracy

Question 1

david kennedy

Answer 1

‘what whould democracies know’

Question 2

fake news

Answer 2

fear of false facts in politics

Question 3

science in policy

Answer 3

allows for UNKOWNS to be KNOWN;

the claim to know is the representing an ethical universl

Question 4

expert knowledge?

Answer 4

is human knowledge, therefore also contradicting and causes ensions

Question 5

usefullness of an idea

Answer 5

capacity of the idea to frame a situation; effect of its authority and norms

• question of REALITY and action, not OBJECTIVE and subjective (releavnce is power)

Question 6

georgina ferry

Answer 6

‘women and the royal society’

Question 7

common features of women fellows at the royal society

Answer 7

• have natural aptitude at early ages and encouraged by parents
• either cambrdige/london university education
• are interdisciplinar
• having 1-2 children carefully planned in line with career

Question 8

dorothy hodgkin fellowship

Answer 8

This scheme offers a recognised first step into an independent research career for outstanding scientists at an early stage of their research career who require a flexible working pattern due to personal circumstances, such as parenting or caring responsibilities or health-related reasons.

Question 9

royal society and sex distinguishing sexual act

Answer 9

outlawed in 1925

Question 10

women in royal society statistics

Answer 10

total women to 2010: 104
of which 13 are foreign members

83% are in biology, 1/4 from cambridge
= society making more conscious effort to seek out women