Abstract How can Community Conversations be used to give communities a voice in policy decisions? This paper is response the challenge of engaging citizens inclusive, meaningful dialogue and deliberation on potentially sensitive topics that affect their lives create bridge between individual, community perspectives. dual aim therefore individuals stronger key decisions affecting them provide st...

In its “deliberative turn,” the field of science and technology studies (STS) has strongly advocated opening up decision-making processes around to more perspectives knowledges. While theory democracy underpinning this is rarely explicitly addressed, language ideas used are often drawn from deliberative democracy. Using case synthetic biology Responsible Research Innovation (RRI), paper looks a...