by Andrew Maynard | Jul 11, 2015 | Communication, Engagement
As an academic, I take public engagement seriously. I see it as a responsibility that comes with the societally-sanctioned license to study the things that I’m passionate about. And I consider it a privilege to interact with others who can inform what I do as...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 16, 2010 | Communication, Education, Engagement, Public Perception
Back in August, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences published a collection of essays under the editorship of Donald Kennedy and Geneva Overholster on the (seemingly) increasingly strained relationship between science and the media. I was too embroiled in the...
by Andrew Maynard | May 9, 2010 | Civic Science, Communication, Engagement
Having recently finished Robert Winston’s “Bad Ideas? An Arresting History of our Inventiveness,” I was rather taken by his concluding “Scientist’s Manifesto” – a fourteen-point guide to help strengthen the relationship...
by Barbara Herr Harthorn | May 4, 2010 | Engagement, Guest Post, Nanotechnology
A guest blog by Barbara Herr Harthorn, Director of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the University of California Santa Barbara. A couple of weeks back, my colleague David Guston wrote here about engaging the public on nanotechnology. In his piece he gave...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 28, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Engagement, Policy
Does the US need more public participation in assessing technologies and their potential impact on society, and informing decisions on their development and use? Richard Sclove – author of a new report on technology assessment – thinks yes; but only as...
