Public Engagement for Science and Society – a conversational tool

In spring 2010 the Science for All Expert Group published a report which reviewed the current public engagement landscape, outlined a vision for public engagement with the sciences and laid out a roadmap for future development in the area. The report highlighted a need to ‘create a wider understanding of why, when and how the public engages with the sciences’ and included an action to ‘develop a common framework to describe types/purposes of public engagement’.

The Science for All Follow Up Group have developed a practical tool to help people working in public engagement have constructive conversations about what type of engagement is appropriate for different aims/situations. The tool and further details about what it hopes to achieve can be found here.

The Science for All Follow Up Group would now like people working in this area to trial the tool and feedback their thoughts on whether it is a useful tool to help them have a constructive conversation around public engagement. If you visit the website you can download the tool and try it out.

Any comments or thoughts on the tool are welcomed – these can be submitted either on the website itself or via a short survey linked to the site.

The deadline for submission of comments is 8 October 2010