List members may be interested to know that the latest issue of Science & Public Affairs is available online at http://www.the-ba.net/spa.
Published four times a year, Science & Public Affairs magazine highlights public engagement in science. Its contributors explain their research, report their experience, disclose their doubts and argue about the way forward.
Science & Public Affairs recruits some of the leading figures inside and outside the scientific community to write for the magazine. The result is a challenging and authoritative update on the progress of public engagement.
***************************************
In this month’s issue:
Cover Story
‘Preparing the public for floods’
- Deeper understanding brings better engagement, says Heena Dave
SPATalk
‘Should researchers welcome or avoid public engagement?’
- Dan Graur and Phil Macnaghten disagree
Opinion
‘Science is messy’
- We should value public scepticism, argues Kevin Burchell
‘Upstream engagement’
- Tee Rogers-Hayden and Nick Pidgeon sound a caution
Argument
‘Human extinction – so what?’
- Anthony O’Hear argues that the loss would matter
- Simon Blackburn maintains that it would not
Exchange
‘Entertainment, achievement, enlightenment’
- Wendy Barnaby looks back over National Science and Engineering Week
Review
‘Public perceptions of risk’
- Joan Harvey warms to an analysis
Sounding Off
‘Fact and faith: help the public distinguish!’
- Ruth Cronje opens the black box of scientific facts
The Wakeford Watch
‘Humble pie and boy scout ethics’
- Tom Wakeford reflects on the GM saga
SET in Parliament
‘The Human Embryology Bill’
- Ian Gibson, MP for Norwich North, joins the battle for science
Features
‘Science in society budget axed’
- Martin Taylor looks to the future
‘Democratising science’
- Sarah Whatmore, Catharina Landström and Sue Bradley describe a new way to manage flood risk
‘Redesigning SET corporations for women’
- Sylvia Ann Hewlett on the way forward
‘Enthusiasm, concern and confusion’
- Saffron Townsend and Suzanne King digest the public’s views of science
‘Dialogue on Darwin’
- Patrick Middleton describes a new initiative
‘The world’s first open-science unconference’
- Jim Thomas explores the joys of SciBarCamp
‘Cancer screening: promoting racial equality’
- Ala Szczepura wants to ensure better uptake
‘How do different ethnic groups cope with cancer?’
- Karen Lord is finding out
‘Undergraduate biology is surprising’
- Beatrice Downing compares her experience with her expectations
‘Everyone’s a scientist’
- Pete Wilton reveals how people power can be the key to scientific success
Best wishes,
Lisa
__________________________________
Roll up, roll up for the Magical Memory Tour… Contribute to a new psychology study exploring the link between memory and music and help create the biggest database of ‘autobiographical memories’ ever attempted by adding your Beatles-related memories online at www.magicalmemorytour.com. Join us at the BA Festival of Science in the European Capital of Culture, Liverpool (6 to 11 September) www.the-ba.net/festivalofscience to find out the results.
Lisa Hendry
Press Officer
The BA (British Association for the Advancement of Science)
Wellcome Wolfson Building
165 Queen's Gate
London
SW7 5HD
Website: http://www.the-ba.net
Registered charity: 212479 and SCO39236
Please consider the environment before printing this email
________________________________________________________________________
This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System on
behalf of the BA (British Association for the Advancement of Science)
________________________________________________________________________
|