Jenny Reardon, Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center (Nick Gonzales/UC Santa Cruz) Sociology Professor Jenny Reardon, founding director of the ...

Policy decisions should be based on evidence in order to provide the most benefit for the health and safety of the public. However, there are scant guidelines for making sound evidence-based policy ...

Only certain scientific studies at ASU require ethics as a part of their curriculums, but biological researchers consider the issue far from optional. In a world where knowledge and technology are ...

Over the past decade and a half, Facebook and its social brethren have rushed to connect the world, rushed to commercialize our private data and now are rushing to make our most sensitive information ...

When social scientists and ethicists are involved in the scientific process, a broader set of perspectives is unlocked to understand the potential implications of emerging research. This can help ...

In April 2019, Santa Clara University was awarded a grant as one of the winners of the Mozilla Responsible Computer Science Challenge, which promotes innovation and experimentation in the integration ...

This story is part of a series on how we learn—from augmented reality to music-training devices. For the students in Emanuelle Burton’s ethics class, the story is tricky to grok. “They’re like, you ...

IN the Scientific Monthly of October, Prof. E. G. Conklin discusses the question: “Does science afford a basis for ethics? The highest level of human development, he urges, is attained when purpose ...

If you are looking to pursue a career in computer science, you may have wondered what, if any, discussion exists around ethics in this field. The good news is that computer science ethics is an ...

Undergraduate training for data scientists - dubbed the sexiest job of the 21st century by Harvard Business Review - falls short in preparing students for the ethical use of data science, our new ...