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Hello, I am hoping you might be able to help. I am looking for published research that has been carried out with 'lay publics' which presents their perspectives/opinions about public engagement with science (preferably health science). I have tried searching terms generally but have found very little empirical research so far from the perspective of the public. I was thinking that evaluation data from specific public engagement activities/initiatives may provide a rich source of public opinion but I am still having little luck in finding such research. The kind of initial broad questions I'm looking to find answers for are: ·What does public engagement mean to lay publics? ·How do they define/discuss it? ·What activities do they describe/think of as public engagement? ·If involved in a public engagement with science activity, what are their opinions about it? I was wondering if anyone might be able to point me in the right direction of any published or unpublished information that may help to answer some of these questions please? I appreciate that public engagement with science is a very broad area, but at this early stage of my work I am looking very broadly to try and build a picture of what exists so if anything at all comes to mind I'd really appreciate it if you could drop me a very quick email. Many thanks, Jenny -- Dr Jenny van Bekkum Career Development Fellow MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit 4 Lilybank Gardens Glasgow G12 8RZ 0141 357 3949 (switchboard) ********************************************************************** 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 You may also change your settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail'. It adheres to the JISCMail Acceptable Use Policy: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html and to the JISCMail guidelines for etiquette: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html Email commands: 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] Please allow up to 24 hours for these commands to activate. Remember that you will need to send commands using the same email address that you used to register on psci-com. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************