Table of Contents

Section 1 - Engaging with public engagement
1.1: Alan Irwin: Moving forwards or in circles? Science communication and scientific governance in an age of innovation
1.2: Jack Stilgoe and James Wilsdon: The new politics of public engagement with science?
1.3: Richard Holliman and Eric Jensen: (In)authentic sciences and (im)partial publics: (re)constructing the science outreach and public engagement agenda
Section 2 - Researching public engagement
2.1: Eric Jensen and Richard Holliman: Investigating science communication to inform science outreach and public engagement
2.2: Sarah Davies: Learning to engage; engaging to learn: the purposes of informal science-public dialogue
2.3: Robin Meisner and Jonathan Osborne: Engaging with interactive science exhibits: A study of children's activity and the value of experience
Section 3 - Studying science in popular media
3.1: Anders Hansen: Science, communication and media
3.2: Joan Leach, Simeon Yates and Eileen Scanlon: Models of science communication
Section 4 - Mediating science news
4.1: Stuart Allan: Making science newsworthy: exploring the conventions of science journalism
4.2: Brian Trench: Science reporting in the electronic embrace of the Internet
Section 5 - Communicating science in popular media
5.1: James Bennett: From flow to user-flows: Understanding 'good science' programming in the UK digital television landscape
5.2: Felicity Mellor: Image-music-text of popular science
Section 6 - Examining audiences for popular science
6.1: Susanna Hornig Priest: Reinterpreting the audiences for media messages about science
6.2: Jenni Carr, Elizabeth Whitelegg, Richard Holliman, Eileen Scanlon and Barbara Hodgson: Investigating gendered representations of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians on UK children's television
6.3: Richard Holliman and Eileen Scanlon: Interpreting contested science: media influence and scientific citizenship

About the Author

Richard Holliman is Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at the Open University (OU), UK and production course team chair of Communicating Science in the Information Age. After completing a PhD investigating the representation of contemporary scientific research in television and newspapers in the Department of Sociology at the OU, in 2000 he moved across the campus to the Faculty of Science. Since that time he has worked on a number
of undergraduate and postgraduate course teams, producing mixed media materials that address the interface between science and society. He is a member of the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology and is
currently leading (with colleagues) the ISOTOPE (Informing Science Outreach and Public Engagement) and (In)visible Witnesses research project teams.
Elizabeth Whitelegg is Senior Lecturer in Science Education working in the Science Faculty at the Open University (OU), and Award Director for Science Short Courses. She recently produced (with Professor Patricia Murphy) a review of the research literature on the participation of girls in physics, for the Institute of Physics. Her main research interest is in girls' and women's participation in science and in learning science (particularly physics) at all levels; she is
currently leading (with colleagues) the (In)visible Witnesses project. In 2003 she was invited to become a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.
Eileen Scanlon is Professor of Educational Technology and co-Director of the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology at the Open University. She is also Visiting Professor in the Moray House School of Education at the University of Edinburgh.
Sam Smidt is a senior lecturer based in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Open University, and Programme Director of the MSc in Science. She has interests in physics education and outreach work in promoting science to the public.
Jeff Thomas is a senior lecturer within the Department of Biological Sciences at the Open University. He has worked at the OU all his professional life, contributing to a wide range of teaching initiatives in biology and in health sciences, and more recently to a range of projects concerned with contemporary science issues and on the relationships between science and different publics, at both undergraduate and Masters level. His research interests are concerned with the
influence of contemporary science controversies on public attitude, on conceptual problems of learning biological science, and in public involvement in science-based policy-making. He also teaches part-time for Birkbeck
College, University of London on its Diploma in Science Communication.

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`A valuable and much-needed resource.'
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We are convinced that due to the variation of subjects every reader (students, researchers, policy makers, science communicators, teachers in higher education) will find useful information in these volumes, and for teachers of science communication these books are obligatory reading.