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2005 Conference presentations, transcripts and workshop reports
Speakers of the working with the media workshop
The presentations, transcripts and workshop reports from day 2 of the 2005 Science Communication Conference are detailed below. Reports and presentations from day 1 can be found here.

Day 2
Tuesday 24 May 2005

Session 5
: Government strategy for science and society
Tony Whitehead (ppt 539KB), Office of Science and Technology
Inform and involve: putting science at the heart of society (pdf 76KB)

Session 6: Implementing science in society policy (pdf 48KB)
Ian Diamond (ppt 2744KB), Chair of Research Councils UK, Chief Executive of ESRC

Session 7a: Influencing policy
Melanie Smallman, Small Talk, and Richard Wilson, Involve
Working in partnership to feed into policy (pdf 21KB)

Session 7b: A vision for schools enrichment
Ken Mannion, Sheffield Hallam University, and Steve Smyth, SETNET
Regional hubs for school science, technology, engineering and mathematics (pdf 16KB)

Session 7c: Evaluation and impact
Sheila Anderson (ppt 1685KB), Head of Communications, NERC and Suzanne King, People, Science and Policy
Evaluation: friend of foe? (pdf 10KB)
Download the evaluation guide
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/documents/evaluationguide.pdf
Session 7d: Delivering inclusion in science communication (DISC)
Malleh Dangan (ppt 173KB), DISC national project coordinator
Report findings from DISC year one (pdf 19KB)

Session 8a: Scientists and industry
Jane Gregory, UCL
Technology and citizenship, public engagement by science based companies (pdf 20KB)

Session 8b: Scientists and artists
David Buckland, Capefarewell Project
The art of climate change (pdf 19KB)

Session 8c: Scientists and the media
Toby Murcott, Times Columnist and Chair of the Association of British Science Writers

Session 8d: Scientists and the public
Sarah Macnaughton (ppt 494KB), Momenta
MORI Science in Society survey (pdf 17KB)

Session 9: Closing Session (pdf 138KB)
Chair - Kathy Sykes
Slides (ppt 189KB)
Report (doc 33KB)

Reports and presentations from Day 1 of the conference can be found here.