All Outputs (30)

From a candle to content creation (2024)
Journal Article

This article gives a short tour through the changing faces of science communication, including dissemination, public understanding of science and public engagement with science and technology to engaged research.

What works in the field? Evaluating informal science events (2017)
Journal Article

Around the world, increasing numbers of people are attending informal science events, often ones that are part of multi-event festivals that cross cultural boundaries. For the researchers who take part, and the organizers, evaluating the events' succ... Read More about What works in the field? Evaluating informal science events.

Having it all: Ownership in open science (2017)
Book Chapter

If, as the communications scholar Miriam Metzger (2007) suggested, in the digital environment nearly anyone can be an author, in the open science environment nearly anyone can be a producer, consumer or analyser of data. At its most complete, the phi... Read More about Having it all: Ownership in open science.

Designing for discussion (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

How we designed an online distance learning course to sustain an active community of learners

Science in Culture: Audiences’ Perspective on Engaging With Science at a Summer Festival (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. In this commentary, we explore the factors that contributed to festival goers’ choice to attend science-based events at a summer cultural festival. We evaluated the impact of such events on the audiences: their levels of... Read More about Science in Culture: Audiences’ Perspective on Engaging With Science at a Summer Festival.

Evaluation of the Wellcome Trust strand at the Latitude Festival 2015 (2015)
Report

This report details the key findings of the evaluation of a series of events sponsored by the Wellcome Trust at the 2015 Latitude Festival, which took place between 16th and 19th July. In addition, the report includes the complete evaluation kit.
Th... Read More about Evaluation of the Wellcome Trust strand at the Latitude Festival 2015.

Beyond dissemination - Science communication as impact (2015)
Journal Article

The drive for impact from research projects presents a dilemma for science communication researchers and practitioners - should public engagement be regarded only as a mechanism for providing evidence of the impact of research or as itself a form of... Read More about Beyond dissemination - Science communication as impact.

Open science (2015)
Journal Article

Open science is the most recent paradigm shift in the practice of science. However, it is a practice that has emerged relatively recently and as such, its definition is constantly-shifting and evolving. This commentary describes the historical backgr... Read More about Open science.

Café sci East Africa: Talking with young people about science and technology (2015)
Journal Article

When Café Sci started in Ugandan schools in 2009, it was rare for scientists to visit schools to talk about their research. Former students might speak at career days and the National Council for Science and Technology set up occasional school visits... Read More about Café sci East Africa: Talking with young people about science and technology.

Cafe scientifique (2015)
Book Chapter

Cafés scientifiques (also known as science cafés, particularly in the USA) are informal, accessible, gatherings in which members of the public and scientists meet to talk about issues in science and technology that affect people’s everyday lives.... Read More about Cafe scientifique.

UWE Science Communication Postgraduate Papers (2014)
Book

Foreword
This second volume in the Postgraduate Papers series has been produced as part of the celebrations of ten years of Science Communication postgraduate programmes in the Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of Englan... Read More about UWE Science Communication Postgraduate Papers.

The building as an exhibit: Communicating environmental sustainability in science centres (2014)
Book Chapter

This paper is based on research carried out by Jennifer Garret as part of her MSc in Science Communication

Mapping the hinterland: Data issues in open science (2014)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2014. Open science is a practice in which the scientific process is shared completely and in real time. It offers the potential to support information flow, collaboration and dialogue among professional and non-professional participan... Read More about Mapping the hinterland: Data issues in open science.

Café Scientifique (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, Science Reviews Ltd. All rights reserved. Every month, in 700 or so bars, cafés, pubs, teahouses, shopping centres, community halls, art galleries, libraries, theatres, museums, bookshops … and a blood donation centre, 40 or so people meet to... Read More about Café Scientifique.

Peering over the shoulders of giants? (2014)
Journal Article

‘Open’ is a highly-visible cultural trend of the early twenty-first century. A brief scan of a
newspaper or quick Internet search reveals it as a prefix to learning, source, standard, data,
knowledge, democracy, access, repository, innovation, gove... Read More about Peering over the shoulders of giants?.

'More dynamic than expected': Assessing STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory's work experience placements (2014)
Book Chapter

This paper is based on research carried out by Alexander Brown as part of his MSc in Science Communication

An investigation of motivations for volunteering in three UK science centres and museums (2014)
Book Chapter

Encouraging creativity: Novel learning environments in science and technology centres (2014)
Book Chapter

This paper is based on research carried out by Melanie Davies as part of her MSc in Science Communication

Review: 'Social networks and popular understanding of science and health: sharing disparities' by Brian G Southwell (2014)
Journal Article

In this book, Brian G Southwell discusses how disparities in information-sharing arise and what can be done to alleviate them. In all sorts of ways and for all sorts of reasons, people have always sought to share information among their family and ot... Read More about Review: 'Social networks and popular understanding of science and health: sharing disparities' by Brian G Southwell.

Engagement: Knitting up the ravelled sleeve? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The poster aimed to explore the big questions around partnerships in public engagement and consider how, as public engagement researchers, we can draw these threads together and tie them in a strong knot that supports university research.

The post... Read More about Engagement: Knitting up the ravelled sleeve?.