The Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society (PFGS) is a volunteer postgraduate forum which seeks to bring together researchers interested in how biosciences and society(s) intersect. Set up in 1998 to explore questions directly related to developments in genetics, it has now expanded to provide a common forum for the next generation of academic researchers from a spectrum of fields including - but not limited to: sociology, psychology, anthropology, science and technology studies, law, philosophy, art and science. Overall, our aim is to engage with each other in productive dialogue and build capacity in the study of life sciences and society.