The Institute for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP) is a multi-disciplinary unit at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
[1] The ISSP was founded based on an initiative of David Castle, Canada Research Chair in Science and Society at the University of Ottawa from 2006 to 2010.
Its operations started in 2010 with the hiring of the Inaugural Director, Marc Saner who headed the ISSP until 2015 when its first graduate program was launched.
It hosted, for example, David Willets,[8][9] then Minister of State for Universities and Science of the United Kingdom and secured high-level endorsement for its Innovation Decalogue.
[10] The ISSP holds numerous events examining current issues at the intersection of science and policy.