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Public involvement and public engagement: An example of convergent evolution? Findings from a conceptual qualitative review of patient and public involvement, and public engagement, in health and scientific research (2024)
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Wilkinson, C., Gibson, A., Biddle, M., & Hobbs, L. (2024). Public involvement and public engagement: An example of convergent evolution? Findings from a conceptual qualitative review of patient and public involvement, and public engagement, in health and scientific research. PEC Innovation, 4, Article 100281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecinn.2024.100281

Objective Patient and public involvement (PPI) in health research is now well-established, whilst science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research has shifted from a focus on science communication alone to public engagement (PE) with... Read More about Public involvement and public engagement: An example of convergent evolution? Findings from a conceptual qualitative review of patient and public involvement, and public engagement, in health and scientific research.

Teaching to bridge research and practice: Perspectives from science communication educators across the world (2024)
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Wilkinson, C. (in press). Teaching to bridge research and practice: Perspectives from science communication educators across the world. JCOM: Journal of Science Communication,

Despite growing awareness of the need to bridge research and practice in science communication, methods of facilitating meaningful interactions between them remain elusive. This practice insight explores how teaching efforts can help to fill this gap... Read More about Teaching to bridge research and practice: Perspectives from science communication educators across the world.

Is there a role for citizen science in death and dying research? (2023)
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Wilkinson, C., Llewellyn, A., & McCabe, C. (2023). Is there a role for citizen science in death and dying research?. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, Article 1241239. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1241239

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought conversations about death and dying to the fore in a way not experienced for generations. This raises questions around perceptions of death and dying; the role of healthcare and the community in care; and the use of... Read More about Is there a role for citizen science in death and dying research?.

Motivations and deterrents in contemporary science communication: A questionnaire survey of actors in seven European countries (2022)
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Wilkinson, C., Milani, E., Ridgway, A., & Weitkamp, E. (2023). Motivations and deterrents in contemporary science communication: A questionnaire survey of actors in seven European countries. International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 13(2), 131-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/21548455.2022.2139165

As the ecosystem of actors communicating science has become more complex, there is a need to understand the motivations and deterrents of those involved in the communication of science, technology and health topics. This article reports on a survey o... Read More about Motivations and deterrents in contemporary science communication: A questionnaire survey of actors in seven European countries.

“One might tweet just for money”: Organisational and institutional incentives for researchers’ social media communication and public engagement practices (2022)
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Koivumaki, K., & Wilkinson, C. (2022). “One might tweet just for money”: Organisational and institutional incentives for researchers’ social media communication and public engagement practices. Studies in Communication Sciences, 22(3), 471-491. https://doi.org/10.24434/j.scoms.2022.03.3205

The changing media landscape and proliferation of social media potentially increase agency amongst researchers to communicate individually. It also points to a need for studying science communication at an organisational level to understand how scien... Read More about “One might tweet just for money”: Organisational and institutional incentives for researchers’ social media communication and public engagement practices.

Roles, incentives, training and audiences for science communication: Perspectives from female science communicators (2022)
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Wilkinson, C., Milani, E., Ridgway, A., & Weitkamp, E. (2022). Roles, incentives, training and audiences for science communication: Perspectives from female science communicators. JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 21(4), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.21040204

Both research and anecdote in science communication suggests that it is a field where women feel ‘at home’, with high numbers of women science communicators and students on training programmes, but why might this be the case? Using data gathered from... Read More about Roles, incentives, training and audiences for science communication: Perspectives from female science communicators.

‘It’s there, it’s in front of your face if you put on the radio or the TV’: COVID-19, perceptions of death and dying and the context of public engagement (2022)
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Llewellyn, A., Wilkinson, C., McCabe, C., Byron, J., Madel, L., & Wilson, A. (2022). ‘It’s there, it’s in front of your face if you put on the radio or the TV’: COVID-19, perceptions of death and dying and the context of public engagement. Palliative Medicine, 36(1 Suppliment), 3-122. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163221093145

Background/aims: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought conversations about death and dying to the fore. Prior studies indicate that holding conversations about the future and end of life planning is beneficial but can be very difficult. Therefore, it is... Read More about ‘It’s there, it’s in front of your face if you put on the radio or the TV’: COVID-19, perceptions of death and dying and the context of public engagement.

A reappraisal of public engagement in Oxford during the pandemic: Three case studies (2022)
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Farrell, M., & Wilkinson, C. (2022). A reappraisal of public engagement in Oxford during the pandemic: Three case studies. Research Involvement and Engagement, 8(1), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-022-00343-z

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the majority of public engagement with research work moving online. This shift to online engagement is likely to affect inclusivity and diversity in such events and this requires further consideration... Read More about A reappraisal of public engagement in Oxford during the pandemic: Three case studies.

RETHINKING Science communication education and training: Towards a competence model for science communication (2021)
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Fähnrich, B., Wilkinson, C., Weitkamp, E., Heintz, L., Ridgway, A., & Milani, E. (2021). RETHINKING Science communication education and training: Towards a competence model for science communication. Frontiers in Communication, 6, Article 795198. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.795198

Science communication is at a pivotal stage in its development due to the emergence of digital communication platforms that are not only presenting new opportunities but are also leading to new challenges. In this context, science communicators, who... Read More about RETHINKING Science communication education and training: Towards a competence model for science communication.

Organisational forms of science communication: The UK and Spanish European higher education systems as paradigms (2021)
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Ojeda-Romano, G., Fernández-Marcial, V., Wilkinson, C., & Stengler, A. E. (in press). Organisational forms of science communication: The UK and Spanish European higher education systems as paradigms. Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-021-00801-9

As key elements in research and development systems, higher education institutions have been taking a leading role when it comes to communicating science and technology, but their performance has been inconsistent so far. In this critical and compara... Read More about Organisational forms of science communication: The UK and Spanish European higher education systems as paradigms.

Exploring the digital media ecology: Insights from a study of healthy diets and climate change communication on digital and social media (2021)
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Weitkamp, E., Milani, E., Ridgway, A., & Wilkinson, C. (2021). Exploring the digital media ecology: Insights from a study of healthy diets and climate change communication on digital and social media. JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 20(3), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.20030202

This study explores the types of actors visible in the digital science communication landscape in the Netherlands, Serbia and the UK. Using the Koru model of science communication as a basis, we consider how science communicators craft their messages... Read More about Exploring the digital media ecology: Insights from a study of healthy diets and climate change communication on digital and social media.

Neglected spaces in science communication (2021)
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Wilkinson, C. (2021). Neglected spaces in science communication. JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 20(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.20010301

Many of the earliest drivers for improved scientific literacy and understanding were based on the assumption that science and technology is all around us, and yet there are some spaces and communities that are neglected in science communication conte... Read More about Neglected spaces in science communication.

“We had to be very clear that they weren't going to try to break into any of the cases”: What potential do ‘escape rooms’ offer as a science communication technique? (2021)
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Wilkinson, C., & Little, H. (2021). “We had to be very clear that they weren't going to try to break into any of the cases”: What potential do ‘escape rooms’ offer as a science communication technique?. JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 20(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.20010307

‘Escape rooms’ are a recent cultural phenomena, whereby a group of ‘players’, often friends or colleagues, are ‘locked’ in a room and must solve a series of clues, puzzles, or mysteries in order to ‘escape’. Escape rooms are increasingly appearing in... Read More about “We had to be very clear that they weren't going to try to break into any of the cases”: What potential do ‘escape rooms’ offer as a science communication technique?.

Gathering evidence of impact from research support services: Examining impact in the context of the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (2020)
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Townsend, P., & Wilkinson, C. (2021). Gathering evidence of impact from research support services: Examining impact in the context of the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis. Research Evaluation, 30(2), 169-178. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvaa031

The Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) is a provider of two major services to the environmental science community; JASMIN and the CEDA Archive. CEDA is frequently required to evidence the impact it has on researchers and wider society. How... Read More about Gathering evidence of impact from research support services: Examining impact in the context of the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis.

Into the digital wild: Utilizing Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook for effective science and environmental communication (2020)
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Pavelle, S., & Wilkinson, C. (2020). Into the digital wild: Utilizing Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook for effective science and environmental communication. Frontiers in Communication, 5, Article 575122. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.575122

Recent years have seen an upsurge in the digital environment and the reliance placed upon it by society. This case study reports on a project which sought to examine how the digital environment can be utilized for science communication, exploring the... Read More about Into the digital wild: Utilizing Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook for effective science and environmental communication.

Exploring the intersections: Researchers and communication professionals' perspectives on the organizational role of science communication (2020)
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Koivumäki, K., & Wilkinson, C. (2020). Exploring the intersections: Researchers and communication professionals' perspectives on the organizational role of science communication. Journal of Communication Management, 24(3), 207-226. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCOM-05-2019-0072

Purpose: This paper reports on research exploring the intersections between researchers and communication professionals' perspectives on the objectives, funders and organizational influences on their science communication practices. Design/methodolog... Read More about Exploring the intersections: Researchers and communication professionals' perspectives on the organizational role of science communication.

What role can Athena SWAN play in gender equality and science communication? (2019)
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Wilkinson, C. (2019). What role can Athena SWAN play in gender equality and science communication?. JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 18(4), Article C06. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.18040306

This essay discusses how gender-focused culture change initiatives developed for science (like Athena SWAN) might offer models for science communication. Such initiatives can seek to mobilise change amongst university departments and practices, but t... Read More about What role can Athena SWAN play in gender equality and science communication?.

Understanding the Effects of ‘Behind-the-Scenes’ Tours on Visitor Understanding of Collections and Research (2019)
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Gallimore, E. J., & Wilkinson, C. (2019). Understanding the Effects of ‘Behind-the-Scenes’ Tours on Visitor Understanding of Collections and Research. Curator: The Museum Journal, 62(2), 105-115. https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12307

© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Collections can be a ‘mystery’ to many museum visitors, which makes investing in behind-the-scenes tours an opportunity for increasing awareness of the role museums play in scientific research. Drawing on the theories o... Read More about Understanding the Effects of ‘Behind-the-Scenes’ Tours on Visitor Understanding of Collections and Research.

Evidencing impact: a case study of UK academic perspectives on evidencing research impact (2019)
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Wilkinson, C. (2019). Evidencing impact: a case study of UK academic perspectives on evidencing research impact. Studies in Higher Education, 44(1), 72-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2017.1339028

© 2017, © 2017 Society for Research into Higher Education. The principle that research should demonstrate impact is now a central driver in UK research policy, with some describing the UK as having undergone a ‘culture change’ in regards to evidencin... Read More about Evidencing impact: a case study of UK academic perspectives on evidencing research impact.

Uwe boxed: Empowering students in the ‘real world’-providing responsible research and innovation opportunities through the boxed project (2018)
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Bourne, K., Wilkinson, C., Bancroft, M., Robinson, G., Noel, C., Varadi, A., …Lewis, D. (2018). Uwe boxed: Empowering students in the ‘real world’-providing responsible research and innovation opportunities through the boxed project. Higher Education Pedagogies, 3(1), 451-462. https://doi.org/10.1080/23752696.2018.1462098

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol has been piloting a schools outreach project entitled BoxED (EDuc... Read More about Uwe boxed: Empowering students in the ‘real world’-providing responsible research and innovation opportunities through the boxed project.