Public Engagement - Science topic

Thank you David! 🙏

Public engagement opportunities are identified through staying informed, networking, and following relevant organizations. The frequency varies by project and field. While crucial in academia, industries also engage with the public for various reasons. Understanding public engagement enhances communication skills and contributes to corporate responsibility efforts.

I know some of the people who wrote this and would trust that they read everything.

Dear Mohammed,

I believe in a wider perspective. Broaden your range. the more you research, the more you realise how different disciplines converge. I speak especially for the Arts, which are a result of human activity. And yes, you can do both. start on a specific problem. Your sources will lead you to other aspects, other disciplines.

Northern Aral Sea restoration project is one of the world’s most successful ecosystem restoration example.

In 2003, the Kazakhstani government, along with the World Bank, began work on the joint €62 million Northern Aral Sea restoration project. The hallmark of the project was the Kok-Aral dam, which was completed in 2005. The dam allows water to accumulate in the northern half of the Aral Sea in an attempt to increase agriculture and fish production in the area. So far, the results have been encouraging. A small fraction of the fishing industry has been revived and water is even starting to creep back towards the old harbour of Aralsk.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02356-9_15

Hi Ian, 

ArcGIS Online offers to my understanding some PPGIS capabilities in their Survey123 extension, but it is not opensource. You can build some fuctionalities quite easily on top of Google Maps, but I at least have limited knowledge on how the dataset created this way look like. 

Greg Brown builds his PPGIS solutions "in-house", Aalto University nowadays buys Maptionnaire from Mapita Ltd. as a SaaS, and actually Mapita has been offering Maptionnaire to quite many universities recently. So it depends a bit on what you aim to do, but I believe if you want to do public participation with maps, Mapita has a solution that might come quite handy. 

I am happy to have a chat over the Skype, if you wish.

And just to make this clear for others - I used to work for Aalto University where I used and developed PPGIS tools in many years, and nowadays I work in Mapita Ltd. Ian and I have met previously.

Kind regards, and sorry for the slight product placement.  

Anna

These papers may be useful, though more explicit focus on minorities should probably be done in future research.

1.     Storm, M., Hausken, K., and Mikkelsen, A. (2010), “User Involvement in In-patient Mental Health Services: Operationalization, Empirical Testing, and Validation,” Journal of Clinical Nursing 19, 13, 1897-1907.

2.     Storm, M., Hausken, K., and Knudsen, K. (2011), “Inpatient Service Providers’ Perspectives on Service User Involvement in Norwegian Community Mental Health Centres,” International Journal of Social Psychiatry 57, 6, 551-563.

3.     Storm, M., Knudsen, K., Davidson, L., Hausken, K., and Johannessen, J.O. (2011), “‘Service User Involvement In Practice’: The Evaluation of an Intervention Program for Service Providers and Inpatients in Norwegian Community Mental Health Centers,” Psychosis 3, 1, 29-40.

4.     Heggland, L.H., Øgaard, T., Mikkelsen, A., and Hausken, K. (2012), “Patient Participation in Surgical Treatment Decision-Making from the Patients’ Perspective: Validation of an Instrument,” Nursing Research and Practice, Article ID 939675, 8 pages, doi:10.1155/2012/939675.

5.     Heggland, L.H. and Hausken, K. (2013), “A Qualitative Identification of Categories of Patient Participation in Decision-Making by Healthcare Professionals and Patients During Surgical Treatment,” Clinical Nursing Research 22, 2, 206-227.

6.     Heggland, L.H., Mikkelsen, A., and Hausken, K. (2013), “Models, Phases, and Cases of Patient Participation in Decision-Making in Surgical Treatment in Norway: A Qualitative Study,” Nursing and Health Sciences 15, 1, 39-44.

7.     Heggland, L.H. and Hausken, K. (2014), “Patient Participation, Decision Makers, and Information Flow in Surgical Treatment,” Journal of Clinical Nursing 23, 9-10, 1430-1444.

8.     Heggland, L.H., Mikkelsen, A., Øgaard, T., and Hausken, K. (2014), “Measuring Patient Participation in Surgical Treatment Decision-Making From Healthcare Professionals’ Perspective,” Journal of Clinical Nursing 23, 3, 482-491.

9.     Heggland, L.H. and Hausken, K. (2015), “Four Categories of Patient Participation in Treatment and Their Linkage to Decision-Making in a Structure of 81 Models,” Nursing Reports 5, 4783, 1-12.

I know in Gothenburg they Planning office use City Engine

Best regards,

Laura

Very interesting. Generally people don't like to talk about physics because they are afraid of not having enough knowledge on the subject. May be if they feel more free and they have not the feeling of taking an exam they will talk about physics without shame. I don't know, in my thirdty years teaching physics, everytime I assist to a social reunion and I identify myself as physicien people looks at me as an alien.

You may wish to take this question to Twitter and/or Facebook as there are a number of groups who are active in the area of your interest who do promote themselves online and from whom you may be able to obtain some ansewrs to your questions.

For an ongoing practical example, you could look into what the City of Winnipeg (Canada) is doing with Our Winnipeg, the City's official development plan. Page 9 of the attached report mentions the public participation strategy that went into Waterfront Winnipeg, a 20-yr vision for developing the city's 240 km of riverfront.

You might also go a step further to examine more innovative forms of PPP, such as strategic alliances, which go beyond contract fulfillment and delve into more strategic issues of co-innovation. Haiying Lin and I have a couple of papers on this topic.

Some surveys use questions about the frequency of watching, reading, or listening to the news as proxies for political interest, although, of course, people may be interested in the news without being interested in politics.  Having voted in the most recent election(s) is another, less subjective indicator, if voting is voluntary, but yields only a yes-no response.  Asking how closely one identifies with each political party is another (subjective) approach that may yield a strong, moderate, or apathetic response.  As Kylie wrote, it all depends on what you are trying to measure.  It also depends on what you plan to do with the indicator once you have it.  Do you need ten categorical responses?

Hi Scott, 

I encourage you to have a look at the following presentation by Professor Croft at the recent STEM2014 conference. It particularly concerns engagement of women in STEM but much of the talk applies equally to both genders. Hope this helps. Kevin

http://stem2014.ubc.ca/files/2013/09/The-Next-Generation-of-Women-in-STEM-v2.pdf 

I beg to disagree with Aceil. If we want science to contribute to the collective knowledge, well-being and prosperity of mankind, the use of a scientific lingua franca is a must. English seems to serve this purpose well and scientists currently have no option but to learn English (I am not a native speaker, but I realize that it is much easier for Western European scientists to learn English than for colleagues from many other parts of the work!). More easily accessible publications in our native languages are and will remain a valuable means of informing our (national) general public - but are not a substitute for sharing our work with international colleagues.

Perhaps this issue will be rendered trivial when translation software really takes off:)

Interesting question. There does seem to be a huge literature around this. See refs at the end of http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/elpubs/pdf/sr80.pdf, and within http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/elpubs/pdf/sr80.pdf. This book looks especially good - US EPA discussed a range of implications and also monitoring strategies. I think if you read this at http://water.epa.gov/polwaste/nps/upload/Dam_removal_full_report.pdf with a more thorough review of the specific literature on monitoring methods (this book is a bit too descriptive and not precise enough in this regard) then you'll have enough to mentally exhaust you. One thing that is clear from this work, and the work of ours which I described earlier is the need for the monitoring to engage with the government decision makers, which requires both people engagement and knowledge of the legal and planning landscape. If your questions arise from a need to solve such problems in Brazil then you presumably have a different context again in terms of community engagement, legal/planning framework and stream ecology ...