Nelius Boshoff

29/11/2016
Article

Public science communication in Africa: views and practices of academics at the National University of Science and Technology in Zimbabwe

Heather Ndlovu, Marina Joubert and Nelius Boshoff

This study of the science communication views and practices of African researchers ― academics at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Zimbabwe ― reveals a bleak picture of the low status of public science engagement in the developing world. Researchers prioritise peer...

22/09/2014
Article

Types of knowledge in science-based practices

Nelius Boshoff

Science communication as an interdisciplinary field of study has always been concerned with issues of knowledge utilisation. This theoretical paper focusses on the “knowledge” part of knowledge utilisation and provides a conceptual frame to distinguish between different types of knowledge in...

11/02/2014
Article

Use of scientific research by South African winemakers

Nelius Boshoff

The study investigated the extent to which transmission and cognition, the first two stages in the research use process, are accomplished for winemakers. “Transmission-cognition” was operationalized as the frequency of engagement with information sources considered to be carriers of scientific...

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