Stilgoe, J;
Lock, SJ;
Wilsdon, J;
(2014)
Why should we promote public engagement with science?
Public Understanding of Science
, 23
(1)
4 - 15.
10.1177/0963662513518154.
![[thumbnail of Public_Understanding_of_Science-2014-Stilgoe-4-15.pdf]](https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png) Preview |
PDF
Public_Understanding_of_Science-2014-Stilgoe-4-15.pdf Download (775kB) |
Abstract
This introductory essay looks back on the two decades since the journal Public Understanding of Science was launched. Drawing on the invited commentaries in this special issue, we can see narratives of continuity and change around the practice and politics of public engagement with science. Public engagement would seem to be a necessary but insufficient part of opening up science and its governance. Those of us who have been involved in advocating, conducting and evaluating public engagement practice could be accused of over-promising. If we, as social scientists, are going to continue a normative commitment to the idea of public engagement, we should therefore develop new lines of argument and analysis. Our support for the idea of public engagement needs qualifying, as part of a broader, more ambitious interest in the idea of publicly engaged science.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Why should we promote public engagement with science? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0963662513518154 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662513518154 |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2014. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm). |
| Keywords: | governance; public dialogue; public engagement; |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Science and Technology Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1417989 |
Archive Staff Only
 |
View Item |
