Engagement tools for scientific governance

Bandelli, Andrea

doi:10.22323/2.09020301

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“…The material presence of information, statements, and short stories in the form of cards raises awareness of the breadth of potential issues and invites the participants to actively position themselves. The cards present a broad spectrum of information in a graspable manner, thereby supporting participants to talk about a topic even though they might not have experienced the described situations themselves (Bandaelli, 2010 ). Moreover, the cards allow us to address sensitive issues, which might otherwise be regarded as taboo topics and thus, not given adequate attention (Olesen et al, 2018 ).…”

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RESPONSE_ABILITY A Card-Based Engagement Method to Support Researchers’ Ability to Respond to Integrity Issues

Felt

Frantz

2022

Sci Eng Ethics

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Issues related to research integrity receive increasing attention in policy discourse and beyond with most universities having introduced by now courses addressing issues of good scientific practice. While communicating expectations and regulations related to good scientific practice is essential, criticism has been raised that integrity courses do not sufficiently address discipline and career-stage specific dimensions, and often do not open up spaces for in-depth engagement. In this article, we present the card-based engagement method RESPONSE_ABILITY, which aims at supporting researchers in developing their ability to respond to challenges of good scientific practice. The method acknowledges that what counts and what does not count as acceptable practice may not be as clear-cut as imagined and that research environments matter when it comes to integrity issues. Using four sets of cards as stimulus material, participants are invited to reflect individually and collectively about questions of research integrity from different perspectives. This approach is meant to train them to negotiate in which contexts certain practices can still be regarded as acceptable and where possible transgressions might begin. RESPONSE_ABILITY can be seen as fostering the creation of an integrity culture as it invites a more reflexive engagement with ideals and realities of good practice and opens a space to address underlying value conflicts researchers may be confronted with. Concluding the article, we call for caution that addressing issues of integrity meaningfully requires striking a delicate balance between raising researchers’ awareness of individual responsibilities and creating institutional environments that allow them to be response-able.

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RESPONSE_ABILITY A Card-Based Engagement Method to Support Researchers’ Ability to Respond to Integrity Issues

Felt

Frantz

2022

Sci Eng Ethics

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“…In the field of science centers and museums, this trend induces "a certain ambiguity, or tension […]: on the one hand, a strong willingness to be "agents of change"; on the other hand, the fear of losing neutrality and of compromising their impartiality." (Bandelli, 2010) The trend towards expert amateurs and public engagement, and the increasing foundation of society on these values, requires and, at the same time, promotes multiliteracy.…”

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The student-curated exhibition - A new approach to getting in touch with science

Kampschulte

Parchmann

2015

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Exhibitions provide a great variety of opportunities for shedding light on a scientific topic. By visiting an exhibition, and even more so by curating an exhibition, students gain great insights into scientific topics. Developing an exhibition offers students multiple ways of engaging with a topic, and presents a multifaceted learning environment, in which skills believed to be highly relevant for individuals’ development into active, well-educated citizens can be developed. These skills support individuals in their private and working life, as well as enabling them to participate in a global society – with some of them (such as project management) being rarely addressed at school at all. To empower teachers to unfold this potential and create professional-like exhibitions within the tight time and budget frame of today’s school life, a simple exhibition framework (EXPOneer) is presented in this article. Its design will be used in the EU-funded project IRRESISTIBLE. Using IKEA shelves, the system allows students to build their own professional-like exhibitions at school based on available knowledge and everyday resources, without distinctive craftsmanship or special tools. The incorporation of student-curated exhibitions (SCEs) into school practice will also be discussed, based on examples of current exhibition projects. After briefly sketching the theoretical background in the first part of this article, the second part aims to enable teachers, as well as other people working with students, to start their own professional-like exhibition project.

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“…consultations on the regulation of scientific endeavour), policy direction (e.g. on research priorities) or at a more individual level scientists engaging with stakeholders to shape research directions as well as small size, semi-formal processes such as discussion games which may not feed directly into participatory processes but can be effective in engaging public audiences in discussion [5]. Dialogue also occurs in many different spaces, both intentionally and unintentionally.…”

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Exploring serendipitous dialogue

Weitkamp¹

2014

JCOM

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Over the past decades there has been an increasing recognition of the need to promote dialogue between science and society. Often this takes the form of formal processes, such as citizen’s juries, that are designed to allow the public to contribute their views on particular scientific research areas. But there are also many less formal mechanisms that promote a dialogue between science and society. This editorial considers science festivals and citizen science in this context and argues that we need a greater understanding of the potential impacts of these projects on the individuals involved, both scientists and the public.

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Engagement tools for scientific governance

Abstract: Museums have a great potential to facilitate the political engagement of citizens, intended not in the sense of taking part to the “party politics”, but as full participation in the systems that define and shape society.

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RESPONSE_ABILITY A Card-Based Engagement Method to Support Researchers’ Ability to Respond to Integrity Issues

RESPONSE_ABILITY A Card-Based Engagement Method to Support Researchers’ Ability to Respond to Integrity Issues

The student-curated exhibition - A new approach to getting in touch with science

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