Jaaved Singh
Hi everyone, I am Jaaved, one of the two co-founders of Meaningful Science. I want to take you on a story of how Meaningful Science came to be, from my perspective. When I started my Master's, I enrolled in a seminar on Environmental/Resource Science and Policy. I was interested in the dynamic between Science and Policy. What I got from the seminar was widened understanding on science communication, science advocacy and the scientists role in society. We discussed ideas around should scientists become more involved in society, more involved with politics, more involved with people. These were topics I wanted to have with graduate students. So I started speaking to my colleagues and friends about it. I met other students and we talked about the colonialistic nature of science with indigenous topics. We talked about the nature of academia, different sources of knowledge production and science communication.
Then I met my co-founder who had her interests in discussing topics around meaning, values, world views and facing societal challenges. We recounted various examples of scientist doing research because they wanted to help society or a group, but their education lacked engagement and sadly, their projects did not help the groups they wanted to help. We saw how these discussions on meaning, values and world views act as a core backbone to doing responsible research. So we partnered to build a conversation series to have these conversations and allow graduate students to share and learn of different ideas.
This series became Meaningful Science. If you have questions you want to ask in graduate school, take a look at the Meaningful Science framework, attend our sessions or host your own. Meaningful Science is there to discuss ideas that studentss want to talk about, but are not being actively discussed in our academic structure.
Welcome to Meaningful Science and thank you for reading.
Hi everyone, I am Jaaved, one of the two co-founders of Meaningful Science. I want to take you on a story of how Meaningful Science came to be, from my perspective. When I started my Master's, I enrolled in a seminar on Environmental/Resource Science and Policy. I was interested in the dynamic between Science and Policy. What I got from the seminar was widened understanding on science communication, science advocacy and the scientists role in society. We discussed ideas around should scientists become more involved in society, more involved with politics, more involved with people. These were topics I wanted to have with graduate students. So I started speaking to my colleagues and friends about it. I met other students and we talked about the colonialistic nature of science with indigenous topics. We talked about the nature of academia, different sources of knowledge production and science communication.
Then I met my co-founder who had her interests in discussing topics around meaning, values, world views and facing societal challenges. We recounted various examples of scientist doing research because they wanted to help society or a group, but their education lacked engagement and sadly, their projects did not help the groups they wanted to help. We saw how these discussions on meaning, values and world views act as a core backbone to doing responsible research. So we partnered to build a conversation series to have these conversations and allow graduate students to share and learn of different ideas.
This series became Meaningful Science. If you have questions you want to ask in graduate school, take a look at the Meaningful Science framework, attend our sessions or host your own. Meaningful Science is there to discuss ideas that studentss want to talk about, but are not being actively discussed in our academic structure.
Welcome to Meaningful Science and thank you for reading.