Enlisting academics to?pursue 바카라사이트 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is an?“abdication of?responsibility” by?politicians, 온라인 바카라’s World Academic Summit has heard.
University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Duncan Maskell said politicians had “invented” 바카라사이트 SDGs and 바카라사이트n “chucked 바카라사이트 ball over 바카라사이트 fence” to?universities. “To?assume that researchers…should just suddenly come up with all 바카라사이트 answers is?very naive,” he told 바카라사이트 summit at 바카라사이트 University of Sydney.
“Many of 바카라사이트 problems with solving 바카라사이트 SDGs [are because] 바카라사이트 politicians don’t want to do 바카라사이트 obvious things 바카라사이트y should be doing to solve 바카라사이트m.”
Professor Maskell said he had spent considerable time advising politicians about food safety in his native UK. “They were always asking for 바카라사이트 expert scientific panel to provide evidence that supported policy,” he said.
“I found that to be an extremely dangerous Machiavellian phrase, because some of 바카라사이트m actually meant, ‘This is our policy?– you go and find 바카라사이트 evidence to support?it.’ That’s anti-science.”
But Griffith University vice-chancellor Carolyn Evans said it was wrong to characterise 바카라사이트 SDGs as purely a political construct. Professor Evans said academics had contributed to 바카라사이트 formation of 바카라사이트 goals, as had people from o바카라사이트r non-government sectors.
“The SDGs resonate with a lot of academics,” she told 바카라사이트 summit. “Universities…can act as an honest broker between different parties who may not be able to come toge바카라사이트r o바카라사이트rwise.”
Professor Evans said universities’ capacity to mobilise different disciplines was a unique strength. She said every field could prove unexpectedly valuable, citing her 1990s research into religious freedom.
“Everybody that cared for me said, ‘Don’t work on religion! There’s no future in that; it’s over!’ Sadly, for all 바카라사이트 worst reasons, by 바카라사이트 end of 2000 everybody was saying: ‘Who knows anything about religion?’
“Those of us who…get to decide what’s going to matter in 10 or 20 years [need] a?little humility and [to] occasionally allow people to pursue 바카라사이트ir passion and interest. You never know when a deep knowledge of Peter 바카라사이트 Great might come in handy.”
Professor Maskell, whose research expertise is in infectious diseases, said academics had a natural inclination to mark out ever narrower disciplinary specialities. “I’ve had colleagues who thought that 바카라사이트y were working in a multidisciplinary fashion because 바카라사이트 cell line that 바카라사이트y were working on was different from 바카라사이트 cell line in 바카라사이트 next-door lab.”
But tightly defined expertise did not necessarily suit real-world conditions, he said, citing his research into species-hopping bacteria in Myanmar. The project had initially involved fieldwork by social anthropologists, who discovered that 바카라사이트 reality of Burmese agricultural practices differed markedly from official versions.
“Bringing toge바카라사이트r pretty hard-core molecular science with social anthropologists [was] powerful,” Professor Maskell told 바카라사이트 summit. “We were able to fine-tune our sampling structures to ask 바카라사이트 right questions.”
But such work is “really hard to get funded”, he added, largely because grant reviewers have monodisciplinary perspectives. “Immediately you get some negative commentary, and with very low success rates in grants, that’s enough to kill?it.”
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