Best practice in communications training for public engagement with science, technology, engineering and mathematics [PDF]
Effective training in key communications skills is critical for successful public engagement. However, what are the secrets to designing and delivering an effectual training course?
Silva, Joana, Bultitude, Karen
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Engaging with strangers and brief encounters: Social scientists and emergent public engagement with science and technology [PDF]
Social scientists operate in a range of roles within the public engagement with science and technology (PEST) agenda. Social scientists strengths in respect to ‘translation’ and ‘intermediary’ skills have captured attention at a time of disciplinary ...
Wilkinson, Clare
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Old Media, New Media, and Public Engagement With Science and Technology
Mass media are, collectively, an effective mechanism for the engagement of the general public in a debate and exchange of information related to science and technology innovations.
Yulia A. Strekalova +4 more
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Broadening the audience for science engagement with machine-learning techniques [PDF]
In Switzerland, the need to engage the public in science is rooted in the political system with its tools of initiatives, therefore the broadening of the audience is critically important.
Fabienne Crettaz von Roten
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Book Review: Academic Libraries and Public Engagement with Science and Technology [PDF]
Scott Turner
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Mapping Case Studies of Public Engagement and Participation in Science and Technology
In recent years, increasing criticism has been levelled against case study based research on public engagement and participation in science and technology (PEST). Most critics argue that such case studies are highly contextual and fail to provide global, holistic and systemic views of public engagement phenomena. In this study, we mapped the case study
Paulo De Loureiro +2 more
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Public Engagement in the Governance of Science and Technology [PDF]
This chapter provides a comparative overview of public participation in science and technology policymaking in Europe, China and India. Participatory Technology Assessment methodology and practice is taken as the main focal point to show how public engagement is conceptualized in the three regions and applied in decision making procedures. A discussion
Zhao, Y. +4 more
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Identifying the science and technology dimensions of emerging public policy issues through horizon scanning [PDF]
Public policy requires public support, which in turn implies a need to enable the public not just to understand policy but also to be engaged in its development.
Sarah Castell +237 more
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Evaluation of public engagement activities to promote science in a zoo environment [PDF]
Scientists are increasing their efforts to promote public engagement with their science, but the efficacy of the methods used is often not scientifically evaluated. Here, we designed, installed and evaluated the educational impact of interactive games on
Kate Peirce +35 more
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Taxonomy, biodiversity and their publics in twenty-first-century DNA barcoding [PDF]
We examine the crafting of publics in the global Barcoding of Life Initiative (BOLI)—seen as crucial for re invigorating, and democratizing, early-twentyfirst- century taxonomic sciences and hence for actually achieving biodiversity protection.
Waterton, Claire +2 more
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