David,
I have come across a couple of recent relevant
articles that might intererest you:
1. The Economist, Feb 3, 2007: editorial p. 13 and article
p. 75 on scientific research and social and economic benefit in
Africa
2. Editorial by R. K. Pachauri, "Sustainable Well-Being",
in Science, Vol. 315, No. 5814, 16 Feb 2007, p. 913 on science and technology
and economic progress.
Best regards,
Martin
Hello All,
Bearing in mind dropping participation
in Computer Science as well as other maths and science subjects within schools
and universities that appear to be a nearly global problem as well as public
uncertainty with various scientific areas, I am convinced that we all need to
work much harder at the problem of Public Engagement in Science. I would like to
have a session at OGF 20 that has two lines of discussion. Firstly with a
collection of world leading science projects that have had a public engagement
component we should be ensuring that lessons are being learned from their point
of view. The second component is from the professionals in Science communication
to ensure that their experiences are fed back into the research
communities.
I would also like to think about in future having as part of
the community track a program open to members of the general public, including
local young people with a plenary, workshop and possible participatory session?
I think that, apart from standards, a great service that OGF could do for
research since it should be attracting both the CS base but also novel
interdisciplinary research projects into the community sessions that can really
provoke public interest.
So please could all members of the PC please
either contact directly, or pass their contact details onto me, those people
either within their own communities who are very active in this area or funding
agencies that make a PES component part of any grant etc (I have heard that NSF
cam be like this?). That way we can have a healthy participation in this session
and try to build something in future meetings. I have heard from dave Berry
about a project called EPIC so if I could get further details on this it would
be very much appeciated.
Regards
David
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From: David Wallom
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:19:37
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To: Myles Allen <allen@atm.ox.ac.uk>, Simon Cox
<s.j.cox@soton.ac.uk>, Morgane Artacho <martacho@nesc.ac.uk>,
<j.redfearn@jisc.ac.uk>, <coleman@nesc.ac.uk>
Conversation:
Public outreach of e-Science
Subject: FW: Public outreach of
e-Science
Hello All,
As below I have been asked by Dave Berry to
consider facilitating setup of a session on “Public Outreach within
e-Science”.
As some of you are actively engaged in such an activity,
whilst others have used public outreach very successfully it was thought that
this could be a very good group to get together and knock out the possible bare
bones of a session. Dave B had some ideas below and I would be very interested
in looking at methods for public engagement and measuring their success. This
could also involve the members of HAS-RG to actually do some research whilst
participating in our session.
Please come back with your thoughts.
Regards
David
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David Wallom
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Oxford e-Research Centre
University of
Oxford
7 Keble Road
Oxford
OX1 3QG
Tel : +44 (0)1865
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email:
david.wallom@oerc.ox.ac.uk
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From: Dave Berry
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:59:43
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To: David Wallom <david.wallom@oerc.ox.ac.uk>
Cc:
Morgane Artacho <martacho@nesc.ac.uk>
Conversation: Public
outreach of e-Science
Subject: RE: Public outreach of
e-Science
Hi David,
This session would be in the morning on Tuesday May 8th.
I'd like to introduce Morgane Artacho, who is
project officer for the ICEAGE project. As outreach is also part of the
responsibility of the NeSC training team, Morgane may be able to contribute to
this session. In discussion today several names were mentioned.
We could also involve Iain Coleman, who is our
science writer, and Judy Redfearn, who is the science writer for JISC &
EPSRC. Malcolm is interested, if his schedule doesn't clash.
Malcolm mentioned a USA project called EPIC which
is about taking e-science into schools.
I agree that the outcomes are important to establish. I was
thinking of the session as a sharing of experiences and "best practice" in (i)
how to explain the science in a way that attracts and engages people without
overhyping it (because obviously we don't do hype in the grid world), (ii) how
to engage the media in this (e.g. CP.net's experiences) and (iii) how to include
schools in that outreach. Those aren't outcomes, so we need to decide
whether we want a report, an ongoing activity, or something else. Either
way, we need someone who would actually want to do this. We also need
someone who will lead the session.
I should perhaps make clear at this point that I'm only proposing
this in my role as PC chair. I'm not planning to lead the activity.
Best wishes,
Dave.
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From: David Wallom [mailto:david.wallom@oerc.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: 10 March 2007 08:36
To: Dave
Berry
Subject: Re: Public outreach of
e-Science
Hi
Dave,
What day and session would be involved? I have had back
from CP.net that they actually have a public understanding person
employed on the project who happens to actually be based in
Manchester.... So we only need to know time and place and we’re sorted with
them.
I want to lock down what outcome we want rfom the meeting
to make sure we get GEODISE (Simon C) on
beard.
David
On 8/3/07 12:23, "Dave Berry"
<daveb@nesc.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi
David,
Have you had
any response from the ClimatePrediction.net and GENIE folks about a
possible session on e-science and the public?
BTW, the
e-Science keynote is still up in the air. I'm chasing a couple
of possible speakers who are more closely linked with
OGF.
Best wishes,
Dave
Berry
Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development
National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street
Edinburgh,
EH8 9AA
+44
131 651 4039
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Oxford e-Research Centre
University of Oxford
7 Keble
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Oxford
OX1 3QG
Tel : +44 (0)1865
610601
email:
david.wallom@oerc.ox.ac.uk
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