From asi.webcalendar at gmail.com Wed Mar 3 04:28:45 2010 From: asi.webcalendar at gmail.com (Toss Gascoigne) Date: Wed Mar 3 09:32:04 2010 Subject: [PCST] PCST Conference New Delhi Dec 6-10, 2010 Message-ID: <4B8DE57D.1090906@tossgascoigne.com.au> Colleagues The 11th Conference of the PCST Network will be in New Delhi from December 06-10, 2010. The Conference again will look at the many issues affecting and arising from science communication. We will have papers and panels involving both practitioners and analysts of science communication. You can go to the Conference web site to register your interest, and also to see the latest information as it becomes available: www.pcst-2010.org Details about the program will be posted soon, along with an invitation to submit proposals. Conference fees and details of hotels will also be posted soon. The Indian organising committee are planning a pre-conference event on December 04-05 at Khajuraho (Central India). A Post Conference Workshop is being planned for December 12-15, 2010 in Bangalore (South India). We hope to see many new participants as well as many of those who have enjoyed our recent conferences in Cape Town (2002), Barcelona (2004), Seoul (2006), and Malmo/Copenhagen (2008) to join us in New Delhi! Regards Toss Gascoigne -- Toss Gascoigne President, PCST Network P. +61 2 6249 7400 M. +61 408 704 442 E. director@tossgascoigne.com.au W. http://tossgascoigne.com.au Skype. tossgascoigne From s.candy at wellcome.ac.uk Fri Mar 12 11:36:26 2010 From: s.candy at wellcome.ac.uk (Candy ,Sara) Date: Sun Mar 14 22:34:21 2010 Subject: [PCST] FW: Tracking public views on medical research - a new study from the Wellcome Trust Message-ID: If you cannot view this email in HTML please click here for a web version. Do the public support the funding of medical research? What motivates people to seek information about medical research? What areas of medical research are they most interested in? What expectations do people have for future advances? Is the scientific process understood? How interesting is school science education? Are young people interested in a career in science? Answers to these questions and many more can be found in the report of the first Wellcome Trust Monitor - a unique survey of UK adults' and young people's awareness of, knowledge about, interest in and attitudes towards medical research. As well as incorporating the questions about medical research as administered to adults, the Monitor will also track changes in young people's (aged 14-18) attitudes to school science education, motivations and barriers to learning science and perceptions of careers in science more generally. The Wellcome Trust Monitor is unique in that it: * focuses on medical research and its applications * provides detailed inter-generational data and comparisons by including both adults and young people * will provide reliable tracking data and determine trends over time in relation to public awareness, knowledge, interests and attitudes to medical research. The survey will be repeated every three years in order to contribute to and build a unique evidence base that will make it possible to explore trends and variations over time on both the core themes and specific issues related to medical research and science education. Further information about the Monitor, including the full report written by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), is available at www.wellcome.ac.uk/monitor . To unsubscribe from future emails about the Wellcome Trust Monitor email us at unsubscribe@wellcome.ac.uk with the subject line 'Monitor'. To unsubscribe from all Wellcome Trust communications click here . The Wellcome Trust We are a global charity dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health. We support the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. We are independent of both political and commercial interests. This message has been scanned for viruses by Websense Hosted Email Security - www.websense.com From cmadsen at eso.org Tue Mar 23 11:15:29 2010 From: cmadsen at eso.org (Claus Madsen) Date: Thu Mar 25 08:28:55 2010 Subject: [PCST] =?windows-1252?q?Scientific_Europe_=96_Policies_and_Polit?= =?windows-1252?q?ics_of_the_European_Research_Area?= Message-ID: <935D87E0-C964-474B-AC59-517F7E67C3A9@eso.org> Dear PCST Colleagues, You may be interested in learning about my new book 'Scientific Europe ? Policies and Politics of the European Research Area', which also includes a chapter on European-level science communication and science education efforts over the last 10 years. The book has just been published by Multi-Science Publishing Co., UK. Scientific Europe ? Policies and Politics of the European Research Area, ISBN 978-1-907132-15-5 In March 2000 Europe?s leaders decided on a new and forward looking strategy for the European Union, aiming to develop a competitive knowledge-based economy. A main tool was the creation of a ?European Research Area?. Exactly to the date, ten years hence, Claus Madsen examines how European cooperation in research has developed in the light of this political initiative. What has worked? What has failed? And what do we need to do in the future to strengthen Europe?s position in the world of scientific research. As the Portuguese Minister for Science, Jose Mariano Gago says in his foreword, "Claus Madsen took the time and energy to write an important book on the future of science policy in Europe": important, and also illuminating and stimulating for all those concerned with the vital issues of science policy and politics. Further information can be obtained from Multi-Science Publishing Co. Ltd, 5 Wates Way, Brentwood, Essex CM15 9TB, United Kingdom, E-mail: mscience@globalnet.co.uk , Fax: +44(0)1277 223453. Best regards, Claus Madsen From mgondwe at medcol.mw Thu Mar 25 05:46:18 2010 From: mgondwe at medcol.mw (Mzamose Gondwe) Date: Thu Mar 25 08:29:40 2010 Subject: [PCST] Call for papers on Public Understanding of Science in Africa In-Reply-To: <22688147.3310.1269489178903.JavaMail.root@mailsrv.medcol.mw> Message-ID: <4815489.3330.1269495978696.JavaMail.root@mailsrv.medcol.mw> The Public Understanding of Science in Africa http://www.african.cam.ac.uk/ Call for Papers A workshop to be held at the British Institute of East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, 22-24th September 2010 Organised by the Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, UK (supported by the Leverhulme Trust and Isaac Newton Trust, Cambridge) Together with the British Institute of East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya and The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Anthropologies of African Biosciences Group With the spread of mobile and Internet technology, the expansion of medical research sites, the development of genetically modified crops, the growing food crisis, the threat of global warming, and the challenges of particular diseases and health care, the question of how science engages publics is becoming increasingly important in Africa, as elsewhere. The workshop will bring together researchers, academics, journalists, policy makers, and those working in science education to discuss public engagement with science, and the engagement of publics by science in Africa, in scientific controversies, and through various scientific projects ? environmental, medical or technological. Policy makers often assume that ?the public ? lacks knowledge of science, and that its members are irrational, anti-scientific, and in need of education. More recently there has been a move to understanding the public as more differentiated and more capable of engaging with science. However, such moves continue to conceive as ?the public ? as lay citizenry separate from scientists and policymakers. Science does not necessarily engage with a freestanding public, but also creates certain publics; while some publics emerge through relations with science. Thus a public may be a group of people that forms around a particular issue, for example, a conservation project, a health issue, or an issue of access to particular resources. Science gains legitimacy through public engagement, but what is the nature of this engagement, and what ethical issues arise? The workshop will discuss the following questions: What debates are African publics engaging in, in relation to science and policy-making and scientific debates? How is science in Africa engaging with publics, whom do these publics consist of and how are they conceived? Are particular publics emerging in relation to scientific issues? What do public engagements with science in Africa tell us about opportunities for participation in decision-making, policy and public debates? What relationships exist between the various publics involved and various actors, from the state to international scientific research groups, pharmaceutical companies, NGOs and UN agencies? What do these reveal about the meanings of citizenship and the development of networks of concerned actors in relation to scientific issues, as well as the ability of particular communities to shape or affect scientific policies that concern their livelihoods? We welcome papers or media presentations. The list below is intended as a guide and is by no means exclusive. Panel One: Science, Medicine and public health Possible topics Media reports on health and medicine Medical research and the engagement of publics Public health campaigns Global disease programmes and their publics Panel Two: Conservation and the environment Possible topics Public engagement with conservation projects Public understanding of climate change; water resources; deforestation; Foreign states buying land in Africa to cultivate food Environmental degradation and migration Media reports on climate change issues in Africa Panel Three: Science, technology and development Possible topics Implications of expanding mobile phone technology and Internet access Debates about genetically modified crops Development of sustainable energy sources Development of sustainable technology We welcome abstracts and expressions of interest from researchers, journalists, science educators, scientists, policymakers and academics. Deadline for abstracts is 1 May 2010 Please contact Mrs Dorian Addison at the Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge conference@african.cam.ac.uk From willrifkin at unsw.edu.au Fri Mar 26 04:53:15 2010 From: willrifkin at unsw.edu.au (William Rifkin) Date: Fri Mar 26 12:34:07 2010 Subject: [PCST] April 21: World-Wide Day in Science virtual event Message-ID: PCST colleagues, April 21st -- this year's World-Wide Day in Science -- virtual event. You know the drill ... Science-based professionals write a blurb on the high point of their day. They explain what got them into science in the first place. Upload it to www.dayinscience.unsw.edu.au. 10 minutes and you are done; even a shy research scientist can do it. It is our 8th year, and WWDS now features 1000 profiles. Submissions have come from the most highly regarded scientific institutions around the world. Many were written by you and your scientific colleagues. Most were drafted from interviews by university students. The 'Day in Science' strategy draws on theory about 'communities of practice' and the notion of 'legitimate peripheral participation' -- students stepping into the world of science, and science-based professionals stepping into the domain of 'science communication'. Our focus is on 'relational' aspects of communication as opposed to 'informational' aspects, on the human side rather than the scientific content. We aim to enfranchise young people and adults into conversations about lives in science and the science in our lives. FAQs -- No, we are not changing the date. April works for the school years in the northern and southern hemispheres. Yes, it is a nightmare to find all the particle physicists on the WWDS site. Why should it be easy? Year 9 & 10 students who are ambivalent about science careers will NOT be searching by discipline; hence, match ups via our 5-question, personality test. Yes, multi-media is welcome. Upload photos. Put a link to your videos or podcasts. Employ our automatic hyperlink to results of a Google Images search. Will World-Wide Day in Science wwds@unsw.edu.au Will Rifkin, PhD Director, Science Communication Program Faculty of Science, BSB-BABS UNSW, Sydney, NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA willrifkin@unsw.edu.au +61 2 9385 2748 +61 2 9385 1530 fax www.scom.unsw.edu.au www.onset.unsw.edu.au www.dayinscience.unsw.edu.au From director at tossgascoigne.com.au Fri Mar 26 12:46:01 2010 From: director at tossgascoigne.com.au (Toss Gascoigne) Date: Fri Mar 26 12:49:40 2010 Subject: [PCST] International School for Scientific Journalism and Communication Message-ID: <16C12E14-B1DA-4BE2-A457-BBDA980A7752@tossgascoigne.com.au> From: Barbara Date: 26 March 2010 5:05:32 AM To: pcst@mailmanlist.net Cc: maria rita ferrazza Subject: international school for scientific journalism and communication in Erice Dear all, the second edition of the International School for Scientific Journalism and Communication will take place in Erice, Sicily, from May 9 to May 13. First of all directed to young journalists, the School is aimed in general to all those interested in communicating science to the public, such as youngresearchers. The goal is to introduce the main challenges of the field to a new generation of science communicators and scientists, encouraging them to develop new tools and strategies. The School is based on lectures, working sessions and other activities, held by international experts in the fields of science, journalism and communication on general topics and on a specific scientific theme, to offer a focus to the discussion. Frontier Science for Health is the theme of the second course of the School in 2010, aiming at highlighting on one hand some new instruments and methods that fundamental science is making available for health sciences and, on the other hand, the most advanced tools to communicate this topic to the larger public. Please find more information and the program at the webpage http://pcaen1.ing2.uniroma1.it/SchoolJournalismErice/ Thank you for your attention and best wishes barbara -- dr. Barbara Gallavotti Science Writer Phone: +39 335 660 60 75 http://www.webalice.it/barbara.gallavotti/ -------------------------- Mr Toss Gascoigne Executive Director Australian Science Innovations Box 7251 Canberra Mail Centre ACT 2610 P. (02) 6125 9647 M. 0408 704 442 F. (02) 6125 9646 www.asi.edu.au In partnership, ASI delivers the Australian Science Olympiads, Rio Tinto Big Science and LABLINKS. From hugo.ahlenius at nordpil.com Fri Mar 26 12:51:22 2010 From: hugo.ahlenius at nordpil.com (Hugo Ahlenius) Date: Sat Mar 27 12:40:17 2010 Subject: [PCST] survey on visual science communication Message-ID: <754FA0B9E0F7A34A808B5E58158CF09B2EF86A45@ex2.gns.se> Dear colleagues, My name is Hugo Ahlenius, I am an independent communications consultant. Me and my colleague Marianne Fernagut are interested in the current state of affairs regarding the use of graphics for science communication, and in particular regarding environmental issues. We have set up a short survey (only eight questions!) that addresses the use of graphics--charts, maps and diagrams--for communication and dissemination of environmental data and information. You can access the survey here: http://bit.ly/baPtjg We greatly appreciate your participation in this survey. If you have any further ideas or thoughts you'd like to share with us, they are most welcome! Once we close and summarize the results from the survey, the summary will be announced and shared on this mailing list. Thank you very much! Best regards, Hugo Ahlenius & Marianne Fernagut -- Hugo Ahlenius ------------------------------------------------------------- Hugo Ahlenius E-Mail: hugo.ahlenius(at)nordpil.com Phone: +46 75 7575284 Nordpil Fax: +46 8 6747020 http://nordpil.com Mobile: +46 733 467111 Skype: callto:hugo.ahlenius vCard: http://nordpil.com/hugoahlenius.vcf ------------------------------------------------------------- From vladimir.semir at upf.edu Tue Mar 30 16:10:45 2010 From: vladimir.semir at upf.edu (Vladimir) Date: Wed Mar 31 09:53:14 2010 Subject: [PCST] Media for Science Forum References: <754FA0B9E0F7A34A808B5E58158CF09B2EF86A45@ex2.gns.se> Message-ID: <3BB472085EFC4AF7A9AF6E352F537094@nombrexqgzqeum> Organised by The Spanish Foundation for Science and Techonology (FECYT), with the collaboration of the Science Communication Observatory-UPF, the Spanish Association of Science Communication and the European Union of Science Journalists' Associations, Media For Science Forum 2010 is a science journalism European congress that will deal with strategic issues about science communication and science journalism and its social dimension. Science journalism plays a vital role in informing and educating audiences about the scientific advances and their social applications, yet it faces unprecedented challenges and opportunities offered by the emerging digital technologies. Media for Science Forum will be attended by experts and gather the latest research in science communication, in areas such as social perception and public participation in science. http://www.mediaforscience.com _____ Vladimir de Semir www.occ.upf.edu http://comunicacioncientifica.wordpress.com