[PCST] FW: Tracking public views on medical research - a new study from the Wellcome Trust

[Candy ,Sara]

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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
<http://comms.wellcome.ac.uk/c/1E2z00VD9iYF>  - 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 <http://comms.wellcome.ac.uk/c/1E2AJQDzGJ1o>
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