There are numerous ways in which SJRC Faculty Affiliates and Advisors help support the SJRC Leadership Team to achieve the goals of the Center. As availability and interests allow, affiliates can participate in varying levels of committed participation, mentorship, and co-laboring through committees. With general guidance from the SJRC Director and advisement from the Center Manager (CM) the various affiliates, advisors and committee members provide institutional and discipline specific knowledge on the direction and implementation of Center research agendas, curriculum and training programs. They cultivate connections and synergy amongst partners, help forge the overall Center vision and plans, and advise on fundraising strategies. New advisors are nominated by the current board and invited by the director. Potential advisors can self-nominate for committee review. Recognition of Service letters may be provided to home departments for merit reviews; upon request to the Center Manager and Director.
‘No one person or discipline has the expertise to determine the conditions of scientific responsibility’. - PLOS Biology Experiments in Collaboration (SJRC Collaborations Group, 2013)
Affiliated Faculty
SJRC Affiliated Faculty add to the liveliness of the S&J Community by any level of the following:
Attending and participating in events, reading groups, gatherings, and collaborative research projects.
Acting as Event Host for happenings as appropriate within personal research.
Help solicit for and act as Faculty Sponsor to visiting scholars as appropriate within personal research; suggest ways to integrate visitors into Center programming or as guest course lectures.
Within personal research, as related to Center themes, stay abreast of current and trending shifts in areas of concern; implement the conceptualization of the thematic foci of ‘science and justice’ through personal research, curriculum and training.
Within personal research, as related to Center themes, engage the community through policy papers, social media platforms, and articles that translate research into the public, social, digital, and online spheres.
Identify and share articles, other event advertisements, blog posts, or news items related to SJRC events to help generate blog posts, announcements or comments on social media networks. As related to personal research, provide guidance on approach, tone and aim.
Help implement the Center’s pedagogical approach, programs, foci and goals.
Act as Faculty Sponsor to undergraduate and graduate student researchers seeking independent studies and majors as appropriate within personal research.
Contribute to Center responses to immediate societal concerns as related to center themes.
Suggesting possible grants*. Find out more on working with SJRC to compose proposals and act as Principal Investigator on grants.
Unless otherwise organized or taught by the Director, affiliates may** teach the graduate Science and Justice: Experiments in Collaboration course.
Steering Committee
Members of the SJRC Steering Committee serve for 1 academic year (renewable). Committee members consist of UCSC faculty. The committee meets at least once per term with Center leadership and staff to discuss pending curriculum and research items, requests, and proposals. Should the need arise the SJRC Steering Committee may consider splitting in two: a Curriculum Committee and an Events Committee***.
Advisory Board
Members of the SJRC Advisory Board (Advisors) serve for 3 academic years (renewable). Advisors consist of UCSC faculty and off campus affiliates, distinguished professors, colleagues from centers and institutes. Advisors are invited to meet annually in Spring with Center leadership, staff and committee members at the annual Advisory Board meeting.
Steering Committee and Advisory Board members, support the trajectory of research and curriculum goals conducted by Center initiatives by:
Assessing Center research, its methods and practices for societal and scientific relevance, sustainability and broader impact to the greater ecology of the university and beyond.
Conceptualizing ways to integrate research with curriculum and training for maximum opportunity and engagement.
Suggesting long term research goals and provide suggestions for implementation.
Focusing on S&J Community involvement, they help build the Science & Justice platform, and steers the Center’s overall programming and governance.
Suggest, initiate, and review strategic plans and proposals including grants.
Potentially work with SJRC to compose proposals and act as Principal Investigator on grants approved to be put forth to support the Training Program, collaborative research projects, or the overall Center infrastructure and operations.*
*All inquiries and proposals concerning the commitment of Center resources will be reviewed by the Center Manager, the Steering Committee, and approved by the Director prior to submitting to the granting agency or unit. SJRC aims to offset resource expenses including operational and staffing costs through grants, gifts, or co-sponsorships where appropriate and available. The Center will work with faculty on proposals to be reviewed by the Steering Committee.
**If the SJTP graduate course will not be taught by the SJRC Director, the Steering/Curriculum Committee will propose, select and determine the Course Instructor who ideally has served on said committee. This appointment is subject to faculty rotations and home department approval. The Course Instructor will work with either the Director and/or Steering/Curriculum Committee in building the syllabi. Final syllabi may be subject to Director or Committee approval.
***If the SJRC Steering Committee were to split in two:
Curriculum Committee
Serving the SJRC for two years (renewable). With advisement from the Center Manager (CM) and the Director, this committee advises the Center on undergraduate and graduate curriculum and overall training conducted by the Center. The committee meets with Center leadership and staff as needed, but at least twice a year. Curriculum Committee members, suggest and review strategic plans for the trajectory of curriculum conducted by the Center and its initiatives by:
Helping to identify new teaching, training and funding opportunities.
Review on campus curriculum and courses designed and taught by affiliates.
Help determine which 268A students to accept into the Training Program, and propose fellowship amounts, mentor graduate fellows and help them to conceptualize their events/projects.
Teach Science & Justice courses, oversee undergraduate independent study interns, and integrate undergraduates into Center research projects.
Work with faculty, suggesting readings and ways to integrate justice into their syllabi.
Helping to define the Center’s pedagogical approach, programs, foci and goals.
Suggesting long term teaching and training goals and provide suggestions for implementation.
Staying abreast of current and trending areas of concern to identify the development of emerging themes to address in the curriculum.
Assessing Center curriculum, its methods and practices for societal and scientific relevance, sustainability and broader impact to the greater ecology of the university.
Reviewing the Center’s teaching profile and the administration of research into curriculum and training conducted.
Maintain synergies and joint teaching collaborations with affiliates including ways to integrate justice into current courses.
Conceptualizing ways to include research in curriculum and training.
Conceptualizing ways to integrate SJRC visitors as guest course lectures.
Guiding responses to immediate societal concerns as related to center themes through curriculum (ie: teach in’s).
Integrate the SJRC pedagogical approach in courses taught.
Unless otherwise organized or taught by the Director, affiliates may** teach the graduate Science and Justice: Experiments in Collaboration course.
Events Committee
Serving the SJRC for two years (renewable). With advisement from the Center Manager (CM) and the Director, this committee focuses on events supported and organized by the Center, its programs, and initiatives. The committee meets at least once per term with Center leadership and staff and as needed with event organizers. Events Committee members, suggest and review strategic plans for public forums, conceptualizing formal Working Group and Training Program events as well as informal reading groups and ‘cocktail hour’ gatherings by:
Reviewing suggested event proposals and budgets from affiliates, visitors, and students for relevance of topics in relation to overarching Center research themes.
Establish the yearly programing for the Center, including: all formal Working Group and Graduate Training Program events, community co-sponsored events, and informal happenings (ie: reading groups, cocktail hours).
Having an understanding of the Center’s research trajectory to cultivate current research themes.
Maintain collaborative relations with affiliated staff, administrators, researchers, departments, Centers, and Institutes both on and off-campus as related to personal research, seek and identify opportunities and partnerships to propose in support of funding, co-laboring, advertising, or co-sponsoring events.
Attending and participating in events.
Within personal research, as related to Center themes, staying abreast of current and trending shifts in areas of concern to explore emerging themes; implementing the conceptualization of the thematic foci of ‘science and justice’.
Reviewing the allocation of resources and resource needs for events.
Assessing Center proposals for relevance to Center research themes and practices for societal and scientific relevance, longevity of ‘Staying with the Trouble’ and broader impact to the greater ecology of the university.
Suggesting and drafting proposals for public events addressing responses to current societal events.
Working with Event Hosts to conceptualize ways to connect academia and engage the community through policy papers, social media platforms, and articles that translate Center research into the public, social, digital, and online spheres.
Identifying articles, other event advertisements, blog posts, or news items related to planned SJRC events to generate blog posts, announcements or comments on social media networks. Provide guidance on approach, tone and aim as related to personal research.
Work with Faculty Sponsors to conceptualize ways to integrate visitors into Center programming.
Guiding Center responses to immediate societal concerns as related to center events.