Recent CSPO News
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CSPO Fall 2024
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Now Hiring: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, History of Science & Technology Policy
CSPO is hiring! Learn more about our ’24-’25 postdoc position to join a project examining the history of science and technology policy in the United States.
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Highlighting public voices in CDR decision making
The If, the How and the Whether of Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies
CSPO; the Museum of Science, Boston; the University of Calgary; and other ECAST project partners join forces with diverse experts and everyday citizens to inform decision making on carbon dioxide removal technology.
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How Would You Defend the Planet From Asteroids?
When NASA collaborated with social scientists to engage the public in two-way conversations about the agency’s Asteroid Initiative, the outcome surprised everyone.
In a pioneering approach to public engagement, NASA and a group of social scientists brought citizens together to weigh in on how the taxpayer-funded agency might approach some technical decisions involving asteroids. How citizens came to engage with strategies for planetary defense—and the unexpected conclusions they reached—was the result of successfully navigating different institutional cultures, extensive preparation, scrambling to meet deadlines, and more than a little serendipity.
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Public Value Evidence for Public Value Outcomes
Integrating Public Values into Federal Policymaking
In a policy memo for the Day One Project, Michelle Govani, Nicholas Weller, and CSPO associate director Mahmud Farooque lay out a plan of action for the federal government to broaden institutional capacity to collect and integrate evidence on public values into policy and decision making.