Professor Chabay's talk is framed by a new initiative in the International Human Dimensions in Global Environmental Change (IHDP) network on “Knowledge and Social Learning for Societal Change to Sustainability." Starting from that broad context, he will discuss two research and intervention projects underway in the Göteborg Center for Public Learning and Understanding of Science:

1) communication of science in the governance of the Baltic Sea fisheries and

2) the relevance and use of science in the jobs, environment, health, and education of Chinese migrant workers and their children.

About Professor Chabay
Prof Ilan Chabay is conducting research on how the public´s ideas about science and technology are learned, processed, used, and changed. He is the founding director of the Göteborg Center for PLUS (gcPLUS) hosted jointly at Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University.

Dr. Ilan Chabay is a member of the International Scientific Committee overseeing the International Human Dimensions Programme for Global Environmental
Change (IHDP.org - sponsored by UN University, ICSU, and ISSC).

He co-chairs the organization and development of the new initiative in IHDP to establish a long term research network on “Knowledge and Social Learning for Societal Change to Sustainability."