This resource is designed for anyone and everyone interested in learning about SSP issues! Whether you are a beginner or someone looking to learn more about advanced SSP-related topics, this self-directed learning resource has something for you.
Teaching & Training Hub
The Teaching & Training Hub is a novel resource developed and maintained by the ISSP to help emerging and established leaders develop knowledge and skills at the interface of science, society and policy (SSP) needed to address the grand challenges confronting decision-making.
Target Audience
How to Use to the Teaching and Training Hub?
The Teaching & Training Hub comprises an organized modules of educational and training resources associated with the cross-sector activities led by the ISSP. These include: video recordings of past lectures and events, open access academic and policy-related publications, and opinion polling data. These resources have been organized into self-directed modules to best fit the needs of users, including a module of introductory materials to introduce the concepts of SSP to beginners, as well as more advanced modules organized around specific SSP-related themes.
Learners who successfully complete all components of a Module, including an in-person discussion event, will receive a Certificate of Completion issued by the ISSP. More details can be found within each Module page.
As a new initiative at the ISSP, the resources included within the Teaching & Training Hub will only be available in their original language of presentation.
Modules
SSP for Beginners (FREE)
Designed for beginners and those interested in brushing up on the basics, this module of resources will introduce users to the history and current state of SSP in Canada.
SSP for Researchers, Research Administrators, Policy Advisors, Diplomats and Other Leaders at the SSP Interface (Fee: $XX)
Canadian governments—federal, provincial, and municipal—often rely on domestic and foreign SSP leaders to help carry out the science activities of Canada. These personnel include diplomats, attachés, researchers, administrators, policy advisors, and leaders of government research laboratories and other large organizations. To help these individuals perform the functions of their position, this module provides an important overview of the machinery of the Canadian government and the mechanisms through which SSP projects are carried out.
Advanced Topics
International Science Diplomacy
This module includes resources related to Canada’s contribution to SSP on the global stage. Users will learn how Canada collaborates with other countries, both past and present, to deal with issues related to SSP. There is a particular emphasis on diplomacy between Canada and the United States.
Energy
This module brings together? pragmatic, applied, solution-oriented research to examine what works, what doesn’t, and how various energy interests can seek and obtain broad social support for energy policies, regulation and individual energy projects and technologies.
Inclusive Innovation
This module relates to the progress made within the responsible innovation framework—one which calls for including a diversity of human values, preferences and needs into decisions about innovations, preferably as they are first being developed. Resources in this module relate to the dynamic changes in which innovation occurs these days: the convergence of technological, organizational, social and institutional innovation, the opportunities for social inclusion and exclusion offered by innovations based on progress in digitization and behavioural sciences, and the increasing expectations global citizens have towards innovations that affect their lives and the planet.
EDI in Research
The ISSP is a leader in advancing the development and implementation of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) practices in the research, teaching and training space. This module includes resources on how academic and research communities can best integrate EDI practices into their local context, and why it is important to do so.
AI and Robotics
This module focuses on three overlapping, interdisciplinary, areas: the underlying social implications of AI and robotics, the development of engineering design practices that take ethical considerations into account in the design of AI and robotics, and collaboration with policymakers to work towards policies and governance structures that foster innovation while addressing key social issues that require attention.
International Science Diplomacy
This module includes resources related to Canada’s contribution to SSP on the global stage. Users will learn how Canada collaborates with other countries, both past and present, to deal with issues related to SSP. There is a particular emphasis on diplomacy between Canada and the United States.
Energy
This module brings together? pragmatic, applied, solution-oriented research to examine what works, what doesn’t, and how various energy interests can seek and obtain broad social support for energy policies, regulation and individual energy projects and technologies.
Inclusive Innovation
This module relates to the progress made within the responsible innovation framework—one which calls for including a diversity of human values, preferences and needs into decisions about innovations, preferably as they are first being developed. Resources in this module relate to the dynamic changes in which innovation occurs these days: the convergence of technological, organizational, social and institutional innovation, the opportunities for social inclusion and exclusion offered by innovations based on progress in digitization and behavioural sciences, and the increasing expectations global citizens have towards innovations that affect their lives and the planet.
EDI in Research
The ISSP is a leader in advancing the development and implementation of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) practices in the research, teaching and training space. This module includes resources on how academic and research communities can best integrate EDI practices into their local context, and why it is important to do so.
AI and Robotics
This module focuses on three overlapping, interdisciplinary, areas: the underlying social implications of AI and robotics, the development of engineering design practices that take ethical considerations into account in the design of AI and robotics, and collaboration with policymakers to work towards policies and governance structures that foster innovation while addressing key social issues that require attention.