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This qualitative study draws on and extends two important concepts of the public understanding of science literature: scientists understandings of the public , and the currently popular notion of science-public dialogue. Using data from interviews with scientists and engineers, the 'understanding of the public by scientists is examined. Constructions of publics are also an emphasis in a detailed case study of informal science-public dialogue at the Dana Centre, London. Here structures of power and authority are more traditional than the dialogue movement s rhetoric would suggest, but there is…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This qualitative study draws on and extends two
important concepts of the public understanding of
science literature: scientists understandings of the public , and the currently popular notion of
science-public dialogue. Using data from interviews
with scientists and engineers, the 'understanding of
the public by scientists is examined. Constructions
of publics are also an emphasis in a detailed case
study of informal science-public dialogue at the Dana
Centre, London. Here structures of power and
authority are more traditional than the dialogue
movement s rhetoric would suggest, but there is also
continual resistance to and contestation of these
structures. To conclude, the threads of analysis are
drawn together to provide a theoretical reasoning of,
and model for, informal dialogue processes which are
able to utilise the sociological complexity of
scientists talk.
Autorenporträt
Sarah Davies is a researcher at Durham University, UK, where
her research interests focus around public engagement with
science. She has a BSc in Biochemistry, an MSc in Science
Communication, and a PhD examining public dialogue on science.
She has also worked in exhibition development at London's Science
Museum and taught science communication.