Ben Wiehe

09/09/2019
Practice insight

Science live — articulating the aims and ethos of science event practitioners in the U.S.A. and U.K.

Laura Fogg-Rogers, Ben Wiehe, Dane Comerford, Julie Fooshee and John Durant

Live science events engage publics with science in a social context. This article articulates the aims and ethos of this growing sector within a research context. Semi-structured interviews (N=13) and focus groups (N=77) were conducted with event practitioners (both professional and volunteers)...

19/12/2014
Comment

When science makes us who we are: known and speculative impacts of science festivals

Ben Wiehe

Science festivals (or just “festivals”) are currently ascendant in the United States with more than 40 new initiatives emerging in just the past 5 years, but their story is not so easily told. The schedule of any one individual festival may contain a staggering array of events, and each festival...

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