At the launch meeting of the ESRC Science in Society research programme at
the Royal Society last week Frank Burnet raised a question as to whether the
programme specification allowed for projects involving collaboration between
social scientists and science communication practitioners.
The programme Director, Steve Rayner, made it clear that he was open to such
proposals and that it fitted his general approach that research under the
programme should follow a clinical model in being both conceptually robust
and with clear implications for policy and practice.
Steve has left it to me to decide whether it would be useful for me to post
a message on this list setting out this approach. I have decided to do so
because although the deadline for proposals for the first funding round is
close - 10 December - there is also a general message here about the
inclusiveness and utility of the new programme which may encourage many, who
might otherwise pass this kind of activity by, to engage with it. We are
seeing something potentially quite innovative in social science research.
Frank and I have some further thoughts as to how to use the S&S Forum to
help promote a constructive debate between science communication research
and practice which we will come back to later.
If you have detailed questions on the timing or content of proposals to the
programme please note that you should approach Steve Rayner himself -
[log in to unmask] - or Stephen Struthers in the ESRC secretariat
[log in to unmask] . The programme website is at
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/esrccontent/researchfunding/scisoc.asp
Peter Healey
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