Last chance!!!

We need to know by 5.30 today (25 April) if we have enough 
participants to go ahead with this meeting, if you would like to 
come, call or e-mail Keith Lowry at the Foundation or me as STEMPRA 
Chair.

A copy of the original posting follows:-

STEMPRA and the Foundation for Science and Technology are organising 
a one-day meeting on 'The response of learned and professional 
societies to public attitudes to science', at the Royal Society, 6 
Carlton House Terrace, London SW1 5AG on 2 May 2000.

This seminar is timely in the light of the publication of the House 
of Lords select committee's report on public attitudes to science and 
the imminent publication of the Wellcome Trust/OST survey. The 
meeting will provide an overview of the findings and recommendations 
made by these surveys and will go on to examine what some societies 
and organisations are already doing in this field.

Cost:- 40 pounds per person. Cheques to be made payable to 'The 
Foundation for Science and Technology' and sent to:-

Mr Keith Lowry, Learned Societies Liaison Officer, Foundation for 
Science and Technology, Buckingham Court, 78 Buckingham Gate, London 
SW1E 6PE (Tel 020 7222 1222, Fax 020 7222 1225, e-mail 
[log in to unmask]).

Please note that the Foundation is handling the administration for 
this meeting. Please send payment and address any queries to the 
Foundation, not to STEMPRA.

Programme

Setting the scene

09.45-10.15 Tea/coffee, Registration
10.15-10.20 Introduction (Chairman - Lord Jenkin of Roding)
10.20-10.50 The Background (Dr Bernard Dixon, freelance journalist)
10.50-11.05 Discussion
11.05-11.25 Research project into public attitudes to science (Mark 
Dyball, People, Science and Policy Ltd)
11.25-11.45 Research project into public attitudes to science (Dr 
Suzanne King, People, Science and Policy Ltd)
11.45-12.00 Discussion

12.45-13.45 Luncheon


Taking action (case studies)

13.45-14.15 Public relations and the media (George Hayles, Holmes PR)
14.15-14.45 Collaboration to inform (Dr Neville Reed, Royal Society 
of Chemistry)
14.45-15.15 Promoting understanding (Peter Cooper and Dianne 
Stilwell, Institute of Physics)
15.15-15.45 Action by smaller societies (speaker to be announced)
15.45 Closing remarks and dispersal





Dianne Stilwell
Chair - STEMPRA
(Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine Public Relations Association)
c/o The Institute of Physics
76 Portland Place
London
WC1N 3DH

Tel 020 7470 4875
Fax 020 7470 4848

e-mail [log in to unmask]

STEMPRA website   www2.ifr.bbsrc.ac.uk/stempra



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