Fudan-LSE Lecture Series No.76

Title: 

US Science Policy Update

Speaker: 

Prof. Diana Hicks，Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy，Georgia Institute of Technology

Host: 

Prof. Yijia Jing, Fudan IGPP

Discussant: 

Prof. Li Tang, Fudan SIRPA    

Asst. Prof. Meijun Liu, Fudan IGPP

Time: 

12:00-13:20, June 24, Tuesday, 2025

Venue: 

Room 805E, 8th Floor, West Sub-building of Guanghua Towers

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The Speaker：

Dr. Diana Hicks is Professor in the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology specializing in metrics for science and technology policy. She was the first author on the Leiden Manifesto for research metrics published in Nature, which has been translated into 25 languages and won the 2016 Ziman award of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) for collaborative promotion of public interaction with science and technology. Her work has informed policy makers in the U.S., Europe and Japan. She has advised the OECD, Flanders, the Czech Republic, and Sweden on national research evaluation systems. She has been chair of the School of Public Policy and co-chair of the international Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy. She was an editor of Research Evaluation 2015-19 and is currently executive editor of technology governance and public policy for Technology Forecasting and Social Change. Prof. Hicks has taught at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley; SPRU, University of Sussex, and worked at NISTEP in Tokyo. She earned her D.Phil and M.Sc. from SPRU, University of Sussex.  In 2018 she was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for “distinguished contributions to the evaluation of national and international research and development enterprises, and for outstanding leadership in science and technology policy education.”

Abstract:

When a new president takes office in the United States, policies and programs shift to better align with the President’s priorities.  Because conservatives used the four years of the Biden administration to prepare a strong plan of action for the anticipated return of Donald Trump to the White House, in a short time many actions have been taken by the new Trump administration.  They include a variety of changes that affect scientific research institutions, funding, topics and international PhD students.  This talk will provide an overview of these many, swift developments in the context of US science policy and of the reaction generated.