New Publications

06/11/2018

Ethics and practice in science communication

Clare Wilkinson

It can be argued that ethical considerations in science communication are a significantly overlooked area although these considerations are implicit in many ongoing academic debates within the fiel

22/10/2018

Pedagogical challenges: insights from environmental communication

Emma Weitkamp

Environmental Pedagogies and Practice is divided into four sections: changing environmental pedagogies, teaching practices, examples of transformative approaches and a toolkit of lesson plans.

16/10/2018

To debate or not debate? Examining the effects of scientists engaging in debates addressing contentious issues

David Morin

According to the Gateway Belief Model, scientists and science educators should stress the scientific consensus when engaging with the lay population across a wide variety of mediums, including deba

01/10/2018

Revisiting public debate on Genetic Modification and Genetically Modified Organisms. Explanations for contemporary Dutch public attitudes

Lucien Hanssen, Anne Dijkstra, Susanne Sleenhoff, Lynn Frewer and Jan M. Gutteling

Results of this study indicate that Dutch public Attitudes toward GM applications are best predicted by both the attitude toward science and technology and three trust measures. “Overall, psychological variables seem better predictors than demographics”.

26/09/2018

Peer-reviewed publishing of results from Citizen Science projects

Gabriele Gadermaier, Daniel Dörler, Florian Heigl, Stefan Mayr, Johannes Rüdisser, Robert Brodschneider and Christine Marizzi

Based on their personal experiences when publishing results from citizen science projects in peer-reviewed journals, authors of this letter review selection criteria for publishing CS data in open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journals as well as barriers encountered.

19/09/2018

Learning about dentistry: enacting problems at the Wellcome Collection exhibition ‘Teeth’

Claire Dungey and Neil Stephens

A review of how the Wellcome Collection exhibition ‘Teeth’ enacts meanings from an educational anthropology and Science and Technology Studies perspective. “We conclude that science communication exhibition curators should strive to represent the problems of today as well as those of the past.”

17/09/2018

Digging deeper? Muddling through? How environmental activists make sense and use of science — an exploratory study

Birte Fähnrich

This paper focusses on the sense making and use of science by environmental activists: how they evaluate the relevance of science for their work, which structures and processes they apply to make sense of science, and how they use science related information to make their voices heard.

12/09/2018

Book review: The science communication challenge. Truth and disagreement in democratic knowledge societies

Birte Fähnrich

"A collection of essays on the interrelationships among science, society and politics in modern knowledge societies (...) contributes to the important debate on the “whys” (instead of the “hows”) of science communication and its (long term) impact on science and society."

10/09/2018

Structure and development of science communication research: co-citation analysis of a developing field

Adrian Rauchfleisch and Mike S. Schäfer

Is science communication research becoming a research field in its own right? Employing a co-citation analysis of scholarly publications from 1996 to 2015, authors assess to what extent a coherent communication network exists, suggesting an increasing emancipation of the field.

03/09/2018

Steering research and innovation through RRI. What horizon for Europe?

Angela Simone

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is gaining momentum worldwide and is envisaged as a needed tool to properly govern controversial innovative technology (i.e. genome editing, AI).

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