Risky Business
Sciencewise-ERC funded project 2005-2006
Background
Risky Business was based on a school theatre performance involving the assessment of risk in science and technology. It was developed to respond to a need for practical citizenship activity for older secondary school and post-16 students, linking science and society. Find out more about the project background
Aims and Objectives
- Increase awareness in students aged fourteen and over of issues of risk in science, specifically environmental risk related to climate change
- Increase students’ ability to participate meaningfully in discussions about risk
- Enable teachers and students to contribute to the policy debate on climate change
- Encourage innovative teaching practices.
Latest Status Updates
This project is now complete.
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Key Impacts
- Met national curriculum requirements for teaching and learning about climate change for one-third of participating schools
- Special performance held at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), for 40 staff
- Report included extensive data on young people’s views about climate change and options to address it.
Project Quotes
“In many ways, children inspire and shape the environmental debate. It is they who will suffer tomorrow the effects of our negligence today.”Alan Johnson, the then Secretary of State.