[ecrea] The Communication Researcher¹s Role(s) in Science and Environmental Communication-Programme and Registration Info

FINAL PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION



The Communication Researcher’s Role(s) in Science and Environmental 
Communication



Pre-IECA conference: International workshop organised by the Science and 
Environment Communication Section, ECREA 
(http://www.ecrea.eu/divisions/section/id/16 and 
http://www.scienv-com.eu/spip.php?article102) and Department of Culture 
and Media Studies, Umeå University, Sweden ( 
http://www.kultmed.umu.se/ecrea-sec).



Where: Clarion Hotel Gillet, Dagarbrunnsgatan 23, Uppsala, Sweden 
(http://www.clarionhotelgillet.com/). (For directions see: 
http://www.clarionhotelgillet.com/directions.aspx and the map below.)



When: 6 June 2013 from 9.00-15.20



REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT: Each participant (presenter and others) is 
asked to register before the workshop since there are limited spaces 
available and we need to pre-book the lunch bag (which in turn will be 
paid (100 SEK) directly at the conference venue). There is no workshop 
fee for participants. If you plan to participate send an email to Annika 
Egan Sjölander at 
((annika.egansjolander /at/ kultmed.umu.se)<mailto:(annika.egansjolander /at/ kultmed.umu.se)>) 
before 17 of May with information about your name/affiliation and 
possible restrictions regarding food alternatives.



CONTENT: The purpose of this workshop is to focus on the role of the 
communication researcher in science and environmental projects. This 
type of (self)reflection is a much needed, yet on the whole overlooked 
or at least not sufficiently acknowledged activity among our research 
community. And this even if the position(s) of communication researchers 
often are complex and contradictory. Many science-related projects for 
example suggest that the main problem (for instance regarding 
implementation of new technologies), is that the public is uninformed 
and needs education. The role of the communication researcher therefore 
becomes to tackle the 'deficit'. Such approach can, in turn, be 
problematic seen from a democratic perspective where everybody’s view is 
equally valid or at least seen as legitimate. In environmentally related 
projects, on the other hand, communication researchers are themselves 
often motivated by a will to change or to improve actual situations (for 
people and the environment), if not to solve practical problems. 
Sometimes the work involves initiating communication campaigns to raise 
awareness about an urgent environmental issue or attempts to influence 
people’s behaviour, for example. But how to decide what the best way 
forward is and how do you combine the analytical task with practical 
work to solve the very same problem? How can the identities of 
communication scholars as researchers and as advocates be reconciled? 
What kinds of ethical and value-related questions do different roles 
raise? And lastly, to what extent can we expect potential transformative 
impacts from the specific perspectives, research questions and methods 
we start from in the framing of our research projects?



In this workshop we want to gather communication researchers with 
different experiences from the field of science and environmental 
communication and discuss their different role(s) in projects. We hope 
to create a space for dialogue, (self)reflection and learning among the 
participants and to offer an opportunity to deepen the understanding of 
these vital issues.



9.00-9.10 Welcome and introduction, ECREA SEC Management Team



Annika Egan Sjölander, Anabela Carvalho and Pieter Maeseele



9.10-10.10 Chair: Annika Egan Sjölander



1. Gitte Meyer ‘Communication scholars in science projects: Technical 
experts or critical participants?’



2. Stefanie Wahl; Christoph Klimmt ‘The „Strategy“ Deliverable as 
Vehicle to Reconcile Project and Public Obligations of Communication 
Scholars in Science and Technology Projects’



3. Michael Schanne, Christoph Spurk ‘Evaluation of an International 
Education and Training Programme for Science Journalists: Boundary Work 
between Science Journalism and Science Journalism Research’



10.15-10.55 Chair: Anabela Carvalho



4. Sally S. Deffor ‘Climate Change Communication in West Africa- Who 
Does What And How’



5. Therese Asplund ‘Experiences from research practice: The 
Communication researcher´s role in Science and Environmental Communication’



BREAK



11.10-12.10 Chair: Pieter Maeseele



6. Marie-Ève Maillé ‘When citizens’ concerns meet the ethical doubts of 
the researcher’



7. Veronica Dermott ‘Researcher’s role in ‘bearing witness’ to 
environmental issues’



8. Justin Rolfe-Redding ‘Para-Scholars as the Impresarios of 
Researcher/Practitioner Collaboration’



LUNCH



13.10-14.10 Chair: Annika Egan Sjölander



9. Sukanya Sereenonchai ‘Environmental Communication Researcher’s Roles: 
Sharing from Thailand’



10. Sam H Ham ‘Balancing two roles for interpretation researchers’



11. Jen Schneider ‘Science Communication Turning Inward: The Promise and 
Peril of the Self-Reflexive Turn in Federally Funded Science Projects’



BREAK



14.25-15.20 Final discussion, All participants


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