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Science Live -articulating the aims and ethos of science event practitioners in the USA and UK

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

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Dr Laura Fogg Rogers Laura.Foggrogers@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor of Knowledge Exchange in Engineering

Ben Wiehe

Dane Comerford

Julie Fooshee

John Durant



Abstract

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) in the U.S.A. and U.K.. Inductive thematic analysis indicated that event producers aim to raise awareness of and professionalism in the sector. In particular, they seek to develop research into long-term impacts of events for both audiences and practitioners.

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Fogg-Rogers, L., Wiehe, B., Comerford, D., Fooshee, J., & Durant, J. (2019). Science Live -articulating the aims and ethos of science event practitioners in the USA and UK. JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 18(04), Article NO1. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.18040801

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 29, 2019
Online Publication Date Sep 9, 2019
Publication Date Jan 1, 2019
Deposit Date Sep 12, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Journal of Science Communication
Electronic ISSN 1824-2049
Publisher Sissa Medialab
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 18
Issue 04
Article Number NO1
DOI https://doi.org/10.22323/2.18040801
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/2978388
Publisher URL https://jcom.sissa.it/archive/18/04/JCOM_1804_2019_N01

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Originally published as: Fogg-Rogers, L., Wiehe, B., Comerford, D., Fooshee, J., & Durant, J. (2019). Science Live -articulating the aims and ethos of science event practitioners in the USA and UK (2019). JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 18(04), https://doi.org/10.22323/2.18040801. Hosted here under the CC-BY-NC-ND license.






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