Linking scicomm practitioners and the social science community

The ESRC Science in Society programme explores the rapidly changing relations between science and the wider society, while the BA seeks to help develop a national strategy for science communication.  The two organisations have joined together to develop a seminar series that brings together practitioners and academics committed to improving public engagement, in order to disseminate social science research and build relationships between science communicators and social scientists.

The series is aimed at people engaged in science communication, including policy makers, professionals, academics and students from a broad range of organisations including government departments, science centres and museums, research institutions, universities, industry, NGOs, education, funding organisations, learned societies and PR.

The final seminar in the series of six was held on Tuesday 6 June at the Dana Centre in London.  The first three seminars in the series were held in November 2005 and the subsequent two seminars occurred in spring 2006, during National Science Week.