Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield, Thinker in Residence, 2004 - 2005
Government of South Australia
ISBN 0-9752027-7-4
Through her residency, Susan informed and influenced the future of science in South Australia. Full Image (11.55K)
Science, increasingly, is touching everything that we cherish, be it the environment, nutrition, reproduction or the climate. And yet many still think of science as the indulgence of a small minority of dysfunctional nerds locked away in the ivory tower of their universities, metaphorically and often literally on the outskirts of society. Sometimes scientists are demonised by the public, often based on ignorance or misinformation.
The aim of this report, a distillation of the deliberations of the two instalments of my residency (June-August 2004 and July-August 2005), is to rethink science as a central activity not just for scientists but for the general public.
