NEWS

Public Forum
Ensuring Positive Outcomes from Technological Developments:
Does Australia need Technology Assessment?, 2nd May 2008,
Old Parliament House, Canberra.

IAIA'08
Annual conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment, 4-10 May, Perth Western Australia. the TASC team is organising a Theme Forum on "Technology Assessment in the 21st Century: the state of the art and science of TA".

TASC is an ARC Discovery Grant project involving Prof Frank Vanclay (UTAS), Dr Wendy Russell (University of Wollongong), Dr Heather Aslin (Bureau of Rural Sciences) and Julie Kimber (UTAS PhD student). The project will run from 2006 to 2009.

The project also involves a collaboration with the CSIRO Food Futures Flagship project - Creating Omega-3 in grains