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Dear list: This is primarily a research conference (i.e. we don't, for a moment, mean to compete with the British Science Association's very fine Science Communication Conference, or the ABSW's recently announced UK Conference of Science Journalists...). However, that doesn't mean it has to be limited to science communication researchers based in universities. So if you're interested, wherever you happen to work, please do submit an abstract. Details below. Alice ------ Dr Alice Bell Lecturer in Science Communication Imperial College, London http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/alice.bell ------ Call for Papers: Science and the Public 2010 Imperial College & Science Museum, London. 3rd and 4th of July 2010. Now in its fifth year, the Science and the Public conference aims to bring together the various strands of research which consider science’s relationships with groups generally called ‘the public’. Delegates come from a wide range of disciplines: science and technology studies, history of science, geography, psychology, cultural studies, media studies, sociology, development studies, English literature, science policy studies and more. Keynote Speakers: Professor Mike Michael, Goldsmiths, University of London, and Professor David Edgerton, Imperial College, London. The range of topics covered may include (but are not limited to): * PUS, PEST, PR. * Surveying public knowledge and attitudes. * Science and the arts (including science fiction). * Science, publics and personal identity. * The role of industry and/ or the third sector in public engagement and scientific research. * The challenges of ‘upstream’ engagement. * Popular science and professionalization. * Specific public-science issues: e.g. climate change, MMR, energy policy, GMOs. * Studies of specific media: e.g. film, books, the internet, museums, radio. * Science, religion and the ‘New Atheism’. * Politically engaged scientists. * Churnalism vs. investigative science journalism. * Edu-tainment. * Scientific advisers, spin and secrecy. * Patients and publics in health services. * Science and the sceptics. * Amateur science. Potential contributors should email a 300 word abstract to [log in to unmask] by 1st March 2010. Please include full contact details (name, affiliation, email) of all authors. Panel proposals should include a panel abstract and individual abstracts for each of the papers on the panel as well as contact information (name, affiliation, email) of the presider (moderator) and all panel members. ********************************************************************** 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] 4. Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html 5. The psci-com gateway to internet resources on science communication and science and society can be found at http://psci-com.ac.uk 6. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] **********************************************************************