To all you psci-commers, You are all invited to share your views with Lord
Sainsbury, Monday 20 March at 6pm, Scientific Societies Lecture Theatre, New
Burlington St, just off Savile Row at the corner of the English Heritage/BA
offices, 5.30  for 6pm start.  Please bring a friend otr two and afterwards
linger over a glass of wine to help us celebrate National Science Week.
There will be an opportunity for questions at the end of the event so stop
carping and come and put your questions to the panel.

Formalities finish at 7.30 and then the party starts!

To ensure that there is sufficient wine for all, an e-mailed "yes please"
would be appreciated. No tickets will be issued but if you are not there, it
will be recorded on your card!


Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Linda Capper [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:	Monday, March 13, 2000 9:36 AM
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> Subject:	Re: Do scientists need to understand other people?
> 
> Dear list
> 
> I've been enjoying this discussion so much, and how timely as I've just
> finished my own quantitative evalulation of our media coverage for 1999.
> 
> After eight years of engagement with PUS at British Antarctic Survey I
> think we all realise that understanding is an amibitious (but worthy)
> term.  Interested would be good.  But while most of us in the science
> communication business are aware of the issues, there is a bit of a lag in
> that information getting to some science managers.  For those managers who
> have signed up to the concept there is additional difficulty in
> understanding that what 'we' want to communicate to the public is not
> always what they want to hear - however, we do listen occasionally.  We
> recently published an A-level Geography resource for teachers and students
> that was a direct response from hundreds of letters and emails from kids.
> 
> Nevertheless, we 'communicators' shouldn't lose sight of the problems
> faced by our scientist colleagues.  Whilst the few who are good at
> engaging the public/media get much personal satisfaction from the
> experience, they are still under pressure to get on with their work and
> publish papers in scientific journals.  Management recognition for PUS
> effort can be extremely patchy - if it's seen to impinge on 'getting the
> science' done you've had it dearie.
> 
> So Andy keep up the great work with evaluation - it's a great help to me.
> And Mark ... can you please try to feed through the need for greater
> accreditation of PUS effort for scientists.
> 
> Linda Capper
> PS... I've never been to a football match and never read the sports pages
> or watch it on telly but somehow I've got the idea that people love
> Manchester United and it's a great team with a great manager..... how did
> that happen?!
> 
> Linda Capper MIPR
> Press & Information Officer
> British Antarctic Survey, High Cross
> Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET
> Tel: 01223 221448; fax 01223 302093
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
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