Dr Margarida Sardo's Outputs (16)

The Christmas Lectures: extending the experience outside the lecture theatre (2022)
Journal Article

Traditionally, the Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures have always adopted a deficit model for communication, with one or two invited scientists giving lectures to an audience present at the Royal Institution (Ri) and, since 1936, an audience watc... Read More about The Christmas Lectures: extending the experience outside the lecture theatre.

Transforming tradition: how the iconic Christmas Lectures series is perceived by its audiences (2021)
Journal Article

The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a landmark in the history of science communication. With today’s changing media landscape, it is important to know who is currently watching, how they are watching, and how they are perceiving the content.... Read More about Transforming tradition: how the iconic Christmas Lectures series is perceived by its audiences.

Transforming tradition: Evaluating the iconic Christmas Lectures series (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Citizen-led air pollution reduction in cities (ClairCity) Final evaluation report (2020)
Report

"Every day, air pollution and carbon emissions are produced by our commutes to work, by heating our homes, or through our daily lifestyles. Understanding how we live - and the restrictions we face in those choices – is key to improving air quality. S... Read More about Citizen-led air pollution reduction in cities (ClairCity) Final evaluation report.

Exploring the ways environmental science is used and valued by policy-makers in Portugal: A case study (2012)
Journal Article

Policymakers, researchers and the general public seem to agree that there is a need for evidence based policies. Here we report on a case study which explores environmental policy making at the national and local levels in one European country, Portu... Read More about Exploring the ways environmental science is used and valued by policy-makers in Portugal: A case study.

You can take a horse to water but you can’t make it drink: Exploring the science-­policy interface (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Social scientists: Knowledge brokers for the natural sciences? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Negotiated boundaries: The role of social scientists in Public Engagement with Science and Technology (PEST) (2011)
Report

Roaming robots: Evaluation report (2009)
Report

Bioblitz: Evaluation report (2009)
Report

Latitude evaluation report (2009)
Report

Physics in the field: Evaluation report (2009)
Report

Mesopodopsis slabberi (Crustacea: Mysidacea): Can it be used in toxicity tests? (2005)
Journal Article

Mesopodopsis slabberi is a euryhaline and suprabenthic mysid with a wide geographic distribution and one of the most important mysid species in coastal shallow waters. Nevertheless, no references were found to its uses in ecotoxicological experiments... Read More about Mesopodopsis slabberi (Crustacea: Mysidacea): Can it be used in toxicity tests?.

Embedding communication skills: Views concerning the communication skills of graduate employees
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The presentation highlights findings from a nine month project funded via the Higher Education Innovation Fund in 2010-11. Drawing on a questionnaire survey of employers, in addition to interviews with employers and University programme leaders the p... Read More about Embedding communication skills: Views concerning the communication skills of graduate employees.

Social scientists and public engagement with (social?) science
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The need for a greater engagement with social science has been highlighted by key UK-based organisations, such as the ESRC and the Academy of Social Sciences (Benyon and David, 2008). In the UK, as Burchell and Holden (2009:4) describe, an ‘extensiv... Read More about Social scientists and public engagement with (social?) science.

Scientific evidence and environmental policymaking: A Portuguese case study
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study provides another angle on the vexed question of the role of environmental research in informing the policymaking process and it describes research undertaken to investigate the ways in which scientific evidence is used by environmental pol... Read More about Scientific evidence and environmental policymaking: A Portuguese case study.