Ethical reflexivity as capacity building: Tools and approaches

TY - CHAP

T1 - Ethical reflexivity as capacity building

T2 - Tools and approaches

AU - Shelley-Egan, Clare

AU - Lucivero, Federica

PY - 2017/1/1

Y1 - 2017/1/1

N2 - The notion of ‘reflexivity’ has emerged as a key dimension of responsible research and innovation (RRI), a policy discourse particularly visible at European Union (EU) level since around 2010 [1-3]. The interest in RRI seeks to extend scientific responsibility so as to include future societal impacts of technological development [4]. As Stilgoe et al. note, this call for responsibility ‘demands reflexivity on the part of actors and institutions (…)’ [5:1571]. Reflexivity ‘at the level of institutional practice, means holding a mirror up to one’s own activities, commitments and assumptions, being aware of the limits of knowledge and being mindful that a particular framing of an issue may not be universally held’ [5:1570].

AB - The notion of ‘reflexivity’ has emerged as a key dimension of responsible research and innovation (RRI), a policy discourse particularly visible at European Union (EU) level since around 2010 [1-3]. The interest in RRI seeks to extend scientific responsibility so as to include future societal impacts of technological development [4]. As Stilgoe et al. note, this call for responsibility ‘demands reflexivity on the part of actors and institutions (…)’ [5:1571]. Reflexivity ‘at the level of institutional practice, means holding a mirror up to one’s own activities, commitments and assumptions, being aware of the limits of knowledge and being mindful that a particular framing of an issue may not be universally held’ [5:1570].

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85054218343&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1201/9781315379593

DO - 10.1201/9781315379593

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85054218343

SN - 9789814745741

SP - 131

EP - 155

BT - Embedding New Technologies into Society

PB - Pan Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd.

ER -