Beyond the deficit model: The ambassador approach to public engagement

NM Nadkarni, CQ Weber, SV Goldman, DL Schatz… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Scientists are increasingly motivated to engage the public, particularly those who do not or
cannot access traditional science education opportunities. Communication researchers …

Researchers' public engagement in the context of interdisciplinary research programs: Learning and reflection from boundary crossing

F Hendriks, R Bromme - Science Communication, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Outreach activities might facilitate researchers' boundary crossing not only between science
and society but also between disciplines. This offers opportunities for learning and reflection …

Use your power for good: Collective action to overcome institutional injustices impeding ethical science communication in the academy

ED Broder, BG Merkle, MM Balgopal, EG Weigel… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Science communication (scicomm) shapes our world by helping people use science to
make societal and personal decisions. Supporting and doing ethical scicomm requires …

Scientists need professional development to practice meaningful public engagement

KA Stofer, D Hanson, K Hecht - Journal of Responsible Innovation, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Public engagement with science is emerging in research and practice, but most research
focuses on perspectives of and/or outcomes for public communities, not scientists. However …

Science Communication Spaces as “Pockets of Belonging”: Inviting in a Plurality of Science Identities for Scientists-in-Training

N Bennett, A Dudo, J Besley - Science Communication, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Science communication spaces may provide an antidote to the hostility of graduate
academic spaces. Using the conceptual lens of science identity, we interviewed North …

Leveraging a University to Create Local Equity-Oriented K–12 Learning Opportunities: A Conversation Starter

M Pollock, S Yonezawa, M Sweet… - Educational …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article shares our university center's efforts to act as a boundary spanner supporting
colleagues across our university to contribute collectively to more equitable educational …

Boundary spanners and thinking partners: adapting and expanding the research-practice partnership literature for public engagement with science (PES)

K Peterman, S Garlick, J Besley, S Allen… - Journal of Science …, 2021 - par.nsf.gov
This paper is the culmination of several meaning-making activities between an external
researcher, PES practitioners, and social scientist researchers who considered the unique …

Watching the sunrise on our ocean planet in a new era of marine science

O Schofield - ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Over the last 30 years, ocean sciences have been undergoing a technological revolution.
Changes include the transition of autonomous platforms from being interesting engineering …

Boundaries crossed and boundaries made: The productive tension between learning and influence in transformative networks

J Risien, BE Goldstein - Minerva, 2021 - Springer
We present an in-depth case study of a learning network that aims to transform infrastructure
and practice across the research enterprise to advance societal impacts. The theory of social …

Species loss: Exploring opportunities with art–science

J Harrower, J Parker, M Merson - Integrative and comparative …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Human-induced global change has triggered the sixth major extinction event on earth with
profound consequences for humans and other species. A scientifically literate public is …