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Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to announce that we have two London PUS events planned for May 2016. Firstly, on 11th May 2016, we will be hosting a special PUS 'China in Focus' Day (LSE, Department of Social Psychology, Q328, 11.00-18.00). While the conduct of science hasbecome a global affair, science culture and the public understanding of scienceremain local matters. This day offers an opportunity to reflect on suchsimilarities and differences and to engage in international comparisons and understandingdiversity in the field. The programmefor the day is below, and more details and abstracts on our website http://londonpus.wordpress.com Secondly,the next ‘regular’ London PUS Seminar will be taking place at 4.15pm on Wednesday 25th May 2016, in room QUE3 28/29 at LSE(map here http://www.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/home.aspx). We aredelighted to announce that our speakers will be Ethan Greenwood from theWellcome Trust, and Patrick Sturgis from University of Southampton, who will betalking about Wave 3 of the Wellcome Trust Monitor Survey of UK publicattitudes to medical research. Theirabstract is below and also on our website http://londonpus.wordpress.com We hope tosee you at at least one of these interesting events. Bestwishes JaneGregory, Martin Bauer, Simon Lock, Melanie Smallman The PUS ‘China in Focus’ Day LSE, Department of Social Psychology, Q328, 11.00-18.00, 11th May 2016. Chinais a large and diverse cultural space. It has lively discussions on science andpublic understanding of science, stimulated nationally by CAST (ChinaAssociation for Science and Technology), CAS (China Academy of Sciences), MOST(Ministry of Science and Technology) and in many provincial initiatives. ThisPUS Focus Day of presentations and discussions will raise the awareness of PUSdiversity with doctoral and post-doctoral research currently conduced in theUK. While the conduct of science has become a global affair, scienceculture and the public understanding of science remain local matters. Thisday offers an opportunity to engage comparative benchmarking of similaritiesand differences in the people’s relationship to science as this is representedin various streams of observation and performance. Programme (furtherdetails and abstracts available at http://londonpus.wordpress.com) 11.00 Welcome and introduction (Martin Bauerfor The London PUS team) 11.15 Kristiansen, Silje (IPMZ. Zurich): Responses to Fukushima in Switzerland –‘risk’ is a complex story 12.15 ZHANGHuiliang (CAST-CRISP / LSE) Creativeimagination among Chinese school children Lunch 14.00 LIUXuan (CAST-CRISP / LSE) DAO, MAO andMaster MENG - attitudes to science in China 15.00 SONGJia-Ou (University of Manchester) Two Case Studies on Contemporary ScienceMuseums in China from a UK Perspective 16.00 YIN Lin (CAST-CRISP / LSE) What Chinese scientists think about‘engaging the public’ 17.00 Final discussion leading into the PUB andbeyond ______________________________________________________________ PUS Seminar 4.15pm, Wednesday 25th May 2016, Room QUE3 28/29 LSE EthanGreenwood, Wellcome Trust; Patrick Sturgis, University of Southampton What dothe UK public think about medical research? This seminar with explorethe latest and previous findings from the Wellcome Trust Monitor Survey. ForWave 3, around 1500 adults were interviewed last year. The themes discussedwill be trends in public opinion, how health and environment considerationaffect food and drink choices, understanding of antibiotic resistance,confidence in understanding of medical terms and interacting with doctors. ______________________________________________________________ ********************************************************************** psci-com how-to: Once subscribed, send emails for the list to [log in to unmask] If not subscribed, either subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com or send reqests for items to be posted on your behalf to [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe (or silence messages while away) send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print **********************************************************************