Dr Andrea Sella has some interesting things to say about it on his blog: bit.ly/fDtH3g

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Bob Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I would be interested to hear views about Monday's Horizon programme
which was presented by Paul Nurse (if you haven't seen it yet, it is
available to watch here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mgxf).

I have seen some criticisms of it (such as it didn't deal with the
issues in enough detail), but I thought it was pretty good, particularly
as its parting message was that the debates surrounding issues such as
climate change and GM are too important to be left to campaigners and
columnists, so researchers should engage more with the public and the
media.

Anybody else have (constructive) views on this?

Linked to this, one of my colleagues has flagged up to me the
publication by research funders on 7 December of a 'Concordat for
Engaging the Public with Research':
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/news/2010news/Pages/101207.aspx

I haven't seen any discussion of this on the list. Does anybody know
what follow-up there will be and when? Is there an implementation
strategy and an assessment of what successful implementation would look
like? And does this mean additional resources will be devoted to public
engagement activities?

Bob Ward

Policy and Communications Director
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE

http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham

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