Education, outreach and communication during the International Polar Year 2007–2008: stimulating a global polar community

Salmon, Richard; Carlson, David J.; Zicus, Sandra; Pauls, M.; Baeseman, Jenny; Sparrow, E. B.; Edwards, Kathryn A.; Almeida, Miriam Hebling; Huffman, L. T.; Kolset, Tove; Malherbe, René J.H.; McCaffrey, M. S.; Munro, Nicola A.L.; Pomereu, Jean de; Provencher, Jennifer F.; Rahman-Sinclair, Khadijah Abdul; Raymond, Mélianie R.

doi:10.1080/2154896x.2011.626629

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“…The first author of this paper (whom we describe herein as the Bscientist^) is an atmospheric chemist and science outreach facilitator, with a positive attitude to outreach, who works in the field of climate change and has coordinated international, national, and regional public outreach efforts (Salmon et al 2011;Salmon 2013a, b). Eighteen months prior to first submission of this paper, she received an internal grant, from the Faculty of Science at which she is employed, to Bidentify and adapt a methodology by which formal and informal science-centred outreach and education initiatives can be evaluated with respect to the expectations and learning goals of the expert individuals, organisations/funding bodies, and audience/ learners.^The desired outcome was Bthe establishment of a robust research method, and a recommendation for standardised success markers, by which science-centred education and outreach initiatives can be evaluated^including establishment of Ba method for objective evaluation of science-led outreach and education initiatives^.…”

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“…3 The wide acceptance of this ill-defined term is demonstrated by the existence of committees with a mandate to focus on Boutreach^along with either one or both of Beducation^and Bcommunication^(e.g. Salmon et al 2011). In this context, outreach should be seen to encompass both one-way Bcommunication^and two-way dialogue, or Bengagement^ac-tivities, between scientists and different publics.…”

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The reflexive scientist: an approach to transforming public engagement

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Calls for greater public engagement with science (PES) are widespread, but there appears to be little agreement on the meaning and purpose of engagement across the various actors calling for it. This reflects a persistent gulf between PES scholars and scientists communicating with the public. We argue that direct engagement between PES scholars and scientist-communicators could, by facilitating greater reflexivity, lead to a step-change in the calibre and clarity of activities that are designed to support enhanced public engagement with science and technology. In this paper, we, as authors beginning from different perspectives, explore the potential of, and barriers to, a conversation between critical social scientists and members of the science community about public engagement. We demonstrate how and why the PES literature does not Bspeak for itself^to scientists but provides a starting point for conversation rather than a substitute for it. We then explore what reflexivity might mean for PES and argue for three important foci: political-economic context or politics of the field; institutional context; and personal assumptions. We then discuss barriers to, as well as strategies for, fostering such reflexivity, concluding that new models of authorship and publication are needed if this promise is to be fulfilled.

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The reflexive scientist: an approach to transforming public engagement

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2015

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“…(Provencher et al, 2011:37). According to Salmon et al (2011), the success of "the IPY science education, outreach and communication […] derived primarily from international collaboration and cooperation, from careful cultivation of a global community of enthusiastic volunteers, and from creative use of free technologies." Moreover, in their view, "The success of these activities also shows how science communication can, and indeed must, function in the modern multimedia environment" (Salmon et al, 2011:283).…”

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Blogging on the ice: Connecting audiences with climate-change sciences

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2013

International Journal of Media &Amp; Cultural Politics

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Scientists working in Antarctica have recognized the need to counteract problems associated with mainstream media’s treatment of the climate-change crisis. For this reason, several of them have assumed the role of citizen journalists in order to report on the effects of global warming first-hand. More specifically, they have chosen to communicate directly with the general public through official or personal blogs. In so doing they are capitalizing on the way the Internet is changing science news and journalism. This article draws on an analysis of more than 50 Antarctic blogs published during the International Polar Year (2007–08), as well as data from e-interviews with a broad selection of bloggers, in order to examine how scientists ‘on the ice’ act as citizen journalists. The article explores the idea of citizen journalism as education and the extent to which the scientists achieve an unmediated form of communication through their blogging efforts. It concludes by suggesting this new form of citizen journalism, beyond raising people’s awareness of the climate-change crisis, also signals an important way in which mainstream environmental reporting can be reinvigorated.

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“…However, ECS have been strongly involved with reaching out to the general public since the International Polar Year 2007e2008 (Salmon et al, 2011). The ICARPIII process provided an opportunity especially also for ECS to become actively involved in transdisciplinary efforts to communicate the global importance of the Arctic to policy-makers and the broader public .…”

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Arctic in Rapid Transition: Priorities for the future of marine and coastal research in the Arctic

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a b s t r a c tUnderstanding and responding to the rapidly occurring environmental changes in the Arctic over the past few decades require new approaches in science. This includes improved collaborations within the scientific community but also enhanced dialogue between scientists and societal stakeholders, especially with Arctic communities. As a contribution to the Third International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARPIII), the Arctic in Rapid Transition (ART) network held an international workshop in France, in October 2014, in order to discuss high-priority requirements for future Arctic marine and coastal research from an early-career scientists (ECS) perspective. The discussion encompassed a variety of research fields, including topics of oceanographic conditions, sea-ice monitoring, marine biodiversity, land-ocean interactions, and geological reconstructions, as well as law and governance issues. Participants of the workshop strongly agreed on the need to enhance interdisciplinarity in order to collect comprehensive knowledge about the modern and past Arctic Ocean's geo-ecological dynamics. Such knowledge enables improved predictions of Arctic developments and provides the basis for elaborate decision-making on future actions under plausible environmental and climate scenarios in the high northern latitudes. Priority research sheets resulting from the workshop's discussions were distributed during the ICARPIII meetings in April 2015 in Japan, and are publicly available online.

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Education, outreach and communication during the International Polar Year 2007–2008: stimulating a global polar community

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The reflexive scientist: an approach to transforming public engagement

The reflexive scientist: an approach to transforming public engagement

Blogging on the ice: Connecting audiences with climate-change sciences

Arctic in Rapid Transition: Priorities for the future of marine and coastal research in the Arctic

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