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[ecrea] Exploring the Communication of Research across Contexts and Theoretical Perspectives, University of Copenhagen, 9 October 2009
Thu Jun 25 18:13:17 GMT 2009
Open invitation to participate in symposium on
Exploring the Communication of Research across
Contexts and Theoretical Perspectives, University of Copenhagen, 9 October 2009
We would like to invite you to participate in a
one-day symposium at the University of Copenhagen
on Exploring the Communication of Research across
Contexts and Theoretical Perspectives, 9 October, 10.00-16.00.
The symposium is to be held under the joint
auspices of the Network on Experts and the
Communication of Knowledge funded by the
Department of Media, Cognition and Communication,
University of Copenhagen
(<http://vidensformidling.mef.ku.dk/>http://vidensformidling.mef.ku.dk/)
the Nordic Network for the Study of the Dialogic
Communication of Research funded by NordForsk
(<http://www.dialogue.ruc.dk>www.dialogue.ruc.dk)
and the Science and Environment Communication
Section, European Communication Research and
Education Association (http://www.scienv-com.eu/).
The symposium will explore how research within
and across the humanities, social sciences and
the natural sciences and technology is
communicated in different contexts. In research
policies internationally, there is an increased
focus on the communication of research, with
researchers being urged ? and often required
through legislation - to communicate their
research via the mass media and to engage in
dialogue-based activities with different social
actors. Practical initiatives have been launched,
such as awards for research communication and
research days in which university researchers go
out and talk about their research with different
audiences. Practical initiatives also include
?upstream? public engagement with science
exercises, officially designed to further public
engagement in decision-making about the direction
and content of scientific developments. In
addition, collaborative research between
researchers and diverse social actors is
promoted. In such collaborative research, the
communication of research does not only involve
the communication of finished research results to
different target-groups but can be understood as
the ongoing communication processes in which the
collaborating actors (university researchers and
practitioners) co-produce research by negotiating
between different knowledge forms and expert identities.
The above research communication activities are
often framed as expressions of a new, democratic
form of scientific governance based on dialogue,
interaction and participation throughout the
research process rather than the unidirectional
knowledge transfer of completed research results
from researchers to policy-makers, practitioners
and publics. At the symposium, research will be
presented that critically examines such
activities in the light of questions of
scientific governance, power and democracy. The
research presented will deal with examples of the
communication of research in a wide range of
contexts including the mass mediation of natural
sciences and technology, the social sciences and
environmental problems, and the communication of
research-based knowledge in collaborative
research. A plethora of different theoretical
perspectives will be applied, including public
understanding of science and public engagement
with science, action research, actor-network
theory, discourse analysis and dialogic
communication theory. By providing a forum for
discussion across these contexts and
perspectives, the symposium aims to further
research on the diverse practices of research communication.
The symposium will be organised around five
presentations by invited speakers. As a
participant, you will be able to attend these
presentations and take part in the discussions
that will follow each presentation. Immediately
after the symposium, there will be a meeting from
16.00-17.30 for members of ECREA?s Science and
Environment Communication Section, including
anyone interested in joining the Section, where
we will discuss shared interests and themes that
emerge from the symposium and consider ideas for
future collaboration, building on those shared interests and themes.
The invited speakers and their presentations are as follows:
Bruce Lewenstein (Professor of Science
Communication, Department of Communication,
Cornell University) on the Public Communication of Science and Technology.
Ulla Britt Lilleaas (Professor, Faculty of Health
and Sport, University of Agder) on the
communication of her research in a film shown in cinemas across Norway.
Anabela Carvalho (Associate Professor, Department
of Communication Sciences, University of Minho on
the negotiation of expert knowledges and
identities in the discursive construction of an environmental problem.
Ursula Plesner (Doctoral Student, Department of
Communication, Business and Information
Technologies, Roskilde University) on an
actor-network approach to studying the mass
mediation of social scientific research.
Louise Phillips (Associate Professor in
Communication Studies, Department of
Communication, Business and Information
Technologies) on the negotiation between
different knowledge forms and expert identities
in the dialogic communication of research-based
knowledge in collaborative social scientific research.
The symposium (including refreshments in the
breaks) is free of charge for all participants.
If you have any queries, you are welcome to get
in touch with one of the two main organisers,
Associate Professor Christa Lykke Christensen
(<mailto:(christal /at/ hum.ku.dk)>(christal /at/ hum.ku.dk))
or Associate Professor Louise Phillips (<mailto:(louisep /at/ ruc.dk)>(louisep /at/ ruc.dk)).
If you would like to attend the symposium, please
register by sending a mail to Christa Lykke
Christensen
(<mailto:(christal /at/ hum.ku.dk)>(christal /at/ hum.ku.dk))
by Monday, 7 September 2009. A detailed programme
(including symposium room number) will be sent to all registered participants.
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