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science communication conference
Monday 22 & Tuesday 23 June 2009 Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG www.britishscienceassociation.org
In partnership with
the programme This programme contains speaker names and a brief description of the focus of each session. Biographies for speakers and chairs can be found in your delegate pack.
venue information
Refreshments will be served in the foyer and lunch will be served in Battlebridge.
www.britishscienceassociation.org
involve
educate
refreshments
engage
All plenary sessions take place in Hall 1. Parallel sessions take place as indicated.
inspire
science communication conference 09
welcome
Time
Session type
09.00 10.00
Monday 22 June 2009
Session description Registration and refreshments
Session 1 Conference plenary
Welcome Roland Jackson, British Science Association & Clare Matterson, Wellcome Trust Keynote address Jonathon Porritt, Forum for the Future Chair: Roland Jackson, British Science Association
11.00
Session 2 Conference plenary
‘Behaviour and choice’ – exploring the role that science communicators should, or could, play as influencers of behavioural change Changes in individuals’ lifestyles cannot be accomplished with simple or isolated initiatives or interventions. This session looks at a range of different approaches including social marketing and arts-based training, which by definition ultimately aim to encourage behavioural change by a greater understanding of the issues. Alison Hardy, Department of Health, James Lowther, M&C Saatchi, Chair: Susan Jebb, MRC Human Nutrition Research
12.00
Session 3
Structured networking led by Ben Craven
12.45 14.00
Lunch Session 4 Conference splits into 3 parallel sessions
Moving forward with public 1 engagement - solutions (Hall 2)
Working with non-traditional partners (St Pancras)
The National Co-ordinating Centre and Beacons for Public Engagement in partnership with SEARCH, an HEI action learning project, explore ways to improve and increase public engagement through cultural change. This session includes a showcase of year 1 findings, alongside group work to explore evaluation, action learning, skills training, organisational change and more.
This session uses practical case studies to illustrate a range of non-traditional partnerships. These include working with commercial organisations and multiple partners as well as looking at what it is like for non-science partners to work with science communicators. The session incorporates small group discussions focussing on practical suggestions for engagement activities.
Gillian Squirrell, University of Bristol
Elizabeth Jeavans, Institute of Physics
Julie Worrall, Community University Engagement East
David Chalton, Dark Sky Scotland Matt Fletcher, Southampton Solent University
Geoff Watts, Science and Medical Writer
Chair: Paul Manners, National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement
Chair: Savita Custead, Bristol Natural History Consortium
Robin Lovell-Badge, MRC National Institute for Medical Research
2
Of hype and hybrids: sharing 3 the success of the HFE Bill (Hall 1) The successful passage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill through Parliament is an interesting example of how the collective voice of the scientific community can have a positive impact on political and media debates. This session presents an analysis of the media coverage throughout the Bill’s development and shares ideas on how organisations can work together to respond to and influence the political and media agenda during high profile debates on controversial areas of science.
Andy Williams, Cardiff University Chair: Fiona Fox, Science Media Centre
Time
Session type
15.15 15.45
Monday 22 June 2009
Session description Refreshments
Session 5 Conference splits into 6 parallel sessions
Evaluating the unevaluatable – 1 the case of science festivals (Hall 2) Can the effectiveness of science festivals ever be properly assessed? What can we learn from arts and cultural festivals and how can we evaluate our environmental impact? Presentations are followed by a practical session to help turn ideas into practice.
Public engagement with science on the web (Hall 1)
An interactive workshop session, aiming to share experiences and best practice in public engagement with science on the web. A number of short talks highlight projects using different platforms followed by a discussion of the technologies, aiming to draw out participants’ experiences and ideas.
Savita Custead, Bristol Natural History Consortium
Clare Wilkinson, University of the West of England
Neasan O’Neill, GridPP
Laura Drane, Laura H Drane Associates
Bella Dicks, National Centre for Research Methods, Cardiff University
Ed Yong, Cancer Research UK
Chair: Melanie Knetsch, ESRC
Chairs: Kat Arney, Cancer Research UK & Catherine Gater, CERN
Engaging people with an 5 emerging science – synthetic biology as an example (Battlebridge)
How can we use ‘new media’ in science communication? (Limehouse) 6
Facilitator: Dominic McDonald, Oxfordshire Science Festival
Creative projects for young people (Battlebridge)
4
This session combines visual arts with science to inform and engage youngsters in a creative forum. Projects using digital media and a wordless theatre show are explored as case studies. Lulie Biggs, ActionDog Gareth Smith, Science Made Simple Chair: Colin Johnson, British Science Association
This session explores the social and ethical issues surrounding synthetic biology, including the perspectives of funders, researchers and regulators. It explores findings from an independent study into objectives and opportunities for UK public engagement and enables participants to identify opportunities for collaboration.
Chris Smith, The Naked Scientists
In this session, Stempra explores the changing role of the press officer blogs, podcasts, Second Life, YouTube, Twitter and creating video content on a shoestring. Alan Cann, University of Leicester Pamela Agar, Imperial College London Chair: Lucy Goodchild, Imperial College London
Brian Johnson, BBSRC Bioscience for Society Panel Paul Martin, University of Nottingham Chair: Robert Winston, Imperial College London
17:00 18.30 22.00
3
This session explores the benefits of social science researchers working with public engagement practitioners. Two case studies examine the issues, benefits and solutions which arise from cross disciplinary working ending with a discussion focussing on issues raised.
Nicola Buckley, Cambridge Science Festival
Monday 22 June 2009
Social science and science 2 communication – polar opposites or partners in science? (St Pancras)
Drinks reception supported by Sciencewise-ERC (Gallery) Conference dinner held at the Wellcome Collection, Euston Road, London NW1 2BE During the evening you will see examples of excellent Wellcome Trust funded projects from across public engagement that use a wide range of methods. Moving around the Wellcome Collection you will be able to experience performance, debate, film, online interactive games and animation.
Time
Session type
08.30 09:30
Tuesday 23 June 2009
Session description Registration and refreshments
Session 6 Conference plenary
Keynote panel discussion How the roles and remits of the UK’s leading figures in public engagement relate to the Conference theme of influencing behaviour. Robert Winston, Imperial College London, Kathy Sykes, University of Bristol, Jim Al-Khalili, University of Surrey, Chair: Sue Nelson, Boffin Media
10:30
Session 7 Conference plenary
‘Years of...’ Do they work? This session reviews case studies of recent ‘years of’ including International Polar Year and Science Year, and examines how our learning from Darwin200 might inform future initiatives. Robert Bloomfield, Natural History Museum, Athena Dinar, British Antarctic Survey, Sophie Duncan, National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement, Chair: Daniel Glaser, Wellcome Trust
11.15 11.45
Refreshments Session 8 Conference splits into 3 parallel sessions
Does public engagement work? (Hall 1) As practitioners our goal is to inspire and engage people of all ages and all backgrounds with science. But how do we know if we’re achieving our goals? This session explores the latest thinking and techniques to assess impact and quality and asks if we are measuring what’s really important.
13.45
From preaching to reaching 2 how can researchers and communicators actually influence workplace practice? (Battlebridge) This session addresses how science communicators can communicate their findings to practitioners and policy makers in a way that is accessible and interesting but also influences behaviour and practice.
Penny Fidler, The Association for Science and Discovery Centres
Paula Vandergert, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
Justin Dillon, King’s College London
Keith Farley, Cambridge University
Robin Hoyle, Glasgow Science Centre
Steve Shaw, Sustainable Urban Environments research consortium
Chair: Nick Winterbotham, Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum
12.45
1
How does public opinion influence business behaviour? (Battlebridge)
This session explores how companies balance business profit with public attitudes. How do businesses monitor public attitudes? How do they react, change or try to alter their customers’ behaviour? Mike Barry, Marks & Spencer Atul Arya, Energy & Climate Policy, BP Chair: Jonathon Rees, Proof Communication Ltd
Facilitator: Kate Beckmann, Heriot-Watt University
Lunch Session 9 Conference plenary
3
Sustainability of public engagement projects This session explores a variety of public engagement projects that are addressing sustainability, followed by a discussion on how to make the best use of funding to ensure a balance between supporting innovation and longevity of initiatives. Claire Cockcroft, The Babraham Institute, Clare Matterson, Wellcome Trust, Chair: Philippa Bayley, University of Bristol
Time
Session type
14.45
Refreshments
15.15
Session 10
Tuesday 23 June 2009
Conference splits into 6 parallel sessions
Tuesday 23 June 2009
Session description
Popular culture as a tool for public engagement (Hall 2)
1
Building ‘The Tower of Life’ for the International Arts Pestival
2
Ensuring your public engagement project is sustainable (St Pancras)
3
Can the scientific establishment appropriate innovative cultural forms to reach out to new audiences? Using hip hop and comics as vehicles, this session explores the potential of popular culture as a science communication vehicle. The session includes a live performance of the ‘NASA Rap’ and a reading from ‘Selenia’.
(Battlebridge) This session explores how to bring together people from various disciplines such as engineers, architects, biologists and artists and how to broker the relationships between these groups. Do these types of collaborations lead to new forms of public engagement which help partners develop their ideas?
This problem-solving workshop leads on from the earlier plenary session. Aimed at people who have significant experience of securing funding and have either developed ways of ensuring their project’s longevity or are seeking ways of doing so. The workshop focuses on challenges and solutions brought by participants in an interactive, discussion-led format.
Jonathan Chase, University of Glamorgan
Bridget Nicholls, Pestival
Patrick Middleton, BBSRC
Mark Brake, University of Glamorgan
Rupert Soar, Freeform Engineering Ltd
Kate Miller, EPSRC
Emma Weitkamp, University of the West of England
Chris Bagot, Softroom Architects
Philippa Bayley, University of Bristol
Creating culturally relevant science cafés – lessons from abroad (Battlebridge)
Engaging young people in genetics (Limehouse)
4
Science cafés aim to fuse science with culture. But as cultures are diverse, cafés have to adapt to be inclusive and relevant. This session provides an overview of current developments plus an explanation of the African Science Café model and its benefits for the UK.
5
Do young people think about genetics? Do they engage in genetics learning? Do they feel they have a say in decisions being made by policy makers about genetics? This session reports on two projects from South Wales that engaged young people with genetics.
Filming science demonstrations (Hall 1)
6
This practical workshop introduces a range of video equipment, skills and techniques and explores why classic science demonstrations are the perfect starting point for YouTube. Jonathan Sanderson, science film-maker
Joy Francis, The Creative Collective Sheila Ochugboju, African Technology Policy Studies Network Duncan Dallas, Café Scientifique
16.15
16.30
Session 11 Conference plenary
Anita Shaw, Techniquest Rachel Iredale, University of Glamorgan Claudine Anderson, The Wales Gene Park
Closing Session Frustrated science graduate and Funny Women finalist Rosie Wilby leads us on a comedic investigation into human memory, fitting in some spoof Greek mythology and beginner’s neuroscience on the way.
CLOSE
Design: www.savageandgray.co.uk
science communication conference
British Science Association Wellcome Wolfson Building 165 Queen’s Gate London SW7 5HD www.britishscienceassociation.org
The British Science Association would like to thank the following for their support: Wellcome Trust, BP, DIUS and Sciencewise-ERC. British Science Association is a registered charity, No. 212479 and SCO39236 This programme has been printed on FSC certified (SGS-COC-0912 ) 50% recycled and 50% virgin fibre paper stock using vegetable based ink.
Monday 22 & Tuesday 23 June 2009 Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG www.britishscienceassociation.org
In partnership with
the programme This programme contains speaker names and a brief description of the focus of each session. Biographies for speakers and chairs can be found in your delegate pack.
venue information
Refreshments will be served in the foyer and lunch will be served in Battlebridge.
www.britishscienceassociation.org
involve
educate
refreshments
engage
All plenary sessions take place in Hall 1. Parallel sessions take place as indicated.
inspire
science communication conference 09
welcome
Time
Session type
09.00 10.00
Monday 22 June 2009
Session description Registration and refreshments
Session 1 Conference plenary
Welcome Roland Jackson, British Science Association & Clare Matterson, Wellcome Trust Keynote address Jonathon Porritt, Forum for the Future Chair: Roland Jackson, British Science Association
11.00
Session 2 Conference plenary
‘Behaviour and choice’ – exploring the role that science communicators should, or could, play as influencers of behavioural change Changes in individuals’ lifestyles cannot be accomplished with simple or isolated initiatives or interventions. This session looks at a range of different approaches including social marketing and arts-based training, which by definition ultimately aim to encourage behavioural change by a greater understanding of the issues. Alison Hardy, Department of Health, James Lowther, M&C Saatchi, Chair: Susan Jebb, MRC Human Nutrition Research
12.00
Session 3
Structured networking led by Ben Craven
12.45 14.00
Lunch Session 4 Conference splits into 3 parallel sessions
Moving forward with public 1 engagement - solutions (Hall 2)
Working with non-traditional partners (St Pancras)
The National Co-ordinating Centre and Beacons for Public Engagement in partnership with SEARCH, an HEI action learning project, explore ways to improve and increase public engagement through cultural change. This session includes a showcase of year 1 findings, alongside group work to explore evaluation, action learning, skills training, organisational change and more.
This session uses practical case studies to illustrate a range of non-traditional partnerships. These include working with commercial organisations and multiple partners as well as looking at what it is like for non-science partners to work with science communicators. The session incorporates small group discussions focussing on practical suggestions for engagement activities.
Gillian Squirrell, University of Bristol
Elizabeth Jeavans, Institute of Physics
Julie Worrall, Community University Engagement East
David Chalton, Dark Sky Scotland Matt Fletcher, Southampton Solent University
Geoff Watts, Science and Medical Writer
Chair: Paul Manners, National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement
Chair: Savita Custead, Bristol Natural History Consortium
Robin Lovell-Badge, MRC National Institute for Medical Research
2
Of hype and hybrids: sharing 3 the success of the HFE Bill (Hall 1) The successful passage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill through Parliament is an interesting example of how the collective voice of the scientific community can have a positive impact on political and media debates. This session presents an analysis of the media coverage throughout the Bill’s development and shares ideas on how organisations can work together to respond to and influence the political and media agenda during high profile debates on controversial areas of science.
Andy Williams, Cardiff University Chair: Fiona Fox, Science Media Centre
Time
Session type
15.15 15.45
Monday 22 June 2009
Session description Refreshments
Session 5 Conference splits into 6 parallel sessions
Evaluating the unevaluatable – 1 the case of science festivals (Hall 2) Can the effectiveness of science festivals ever be properly assessed? What can we learn from arts and cultural festivals and how can we evaluate our environmental impact? Presentations are followed by a practical session to help turn ideas into practice.
Public engagement with science on the web (Hall 1)
An interactive workshop session, aiming to share experiences and best practice in public engagement with science on the web. A number of short talks highlight projects using different platforms followed by a discussion of the technologies, aiming to draw out participants’ experiences and ideas.
Savita Custead, Bristol Natural History Consortium
Clare Wilkinson, University of the West of England
Neasan O’Neill, GridPP
Laura Drane, Laura H Drane Associates
Bella Dicks, National Centre for Research Methods, Cardiff University
Ed Yong, Cancer Research UK
Chair: Melanie Knetsch, ESRC
Chairs: Kat Arney, Cancer Research UK & Catherine Gater, CERN
Engaging people with an 5 emerging science – synthetic biology as an example (Battlebridge)
How can we use ‘new media’ in science communication? (Limehouse) 6
Facilitator: Dominic McDonald, Oxfordshire Science Festival
Creative projects for young people (Battlebridge)
4
This session combines visual arts with science to inform and engage youngsters in a creative forum. Projects using digital media and a wordless theatre show are explored as case studies. Lulie Biggs, ActionDog Gareth Smith, Science Made Simple Chair: Colin Johnson, British Science Association
This session explores the social and ethical issues surrounding synthetic biology, including the perspectives of funders, researchers and regulators. It explores findings from an independent study into objectives and opportunities for UK public engagement and enables participants to identify opportunities for collaboration.
Chris Smith, The Naked Scientists
In this session, Stempra explores the changing role of the press officer blogs, podcasts, Second Life, YouTube, Twitter and creating video content on a shoestring. Alan Cann, University of Leicester Pamela Agar, Imperial College London Chair: Lucy Goodchild, Imperial College London
Brian Johnson, BBSRC Bioscience for Society Panel Paul Martin, University of Nottingham Chair: Robert Winston, Imperial College London
17:00 18.30 22.00
3
This session explores the benefits of social science researchers working with public engagement practitioners. Two case studies examine the issues, benefits and solutions which arise from cross disciplinary working ending with a discussion focussing on issues raised.
Nicola Buckley, Cambridge Science Festival
Monday 22 June 2009
Social science and science 2 communication – polar opposites or partners in science? (St Pancras)
Drinks reception supported by Sciencewise-ERC (Gallery) Conference dinner held at the Wellcome Collection, Euston Road, London NW1 2BE During the evening you will see examples of excellent Wellcome Trust funded projects from across public engagement that use a wide range of methods. Moving around the Wellcome Collection you will be able to experience performance, debate, film, online interactive games and animation.
Time
Session type
08.30 09:30
Tuesday 23 June 2009
Session description Registration and refreshments
Session 6 Conference plenary
Keynote panel discussion How the roles and remits of the UK’s leading figures in public engagement relate to the Conference theme of influencing behaviour. Robert Winston, Imperial College London, Kathy Sykes, University of Bristol, Jim Al-Khalili, University of Surrey, Chair: Sue Nelson, Boffin Media
10:30
Session 7 Conference plenary
‘Years of...’ Do they work? This session reviews case studies of recent ‘years of’ including International Polar Year and Science Year, and examines how our learning from Darwin200 might inform future initiatives. Robert Bloomfield, Natural History Museum, Athena Dinar, British Antarctic Survey, Sophie Duncan, National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement, Chair: Daniel Glaser, Wellcome Trust
11.15 11.45
Refreshments Session 8 Conference splits into 3 parallel sessions
Does public engagement work? (Hall 1) As practitioners our goal is to inspire and engage people of all ages and all backgrounds with science. But how do we know if we’re achieving our goals? This session explores the latest thinking and techniques to assess impact and quality and asks if we are measuring what’s really important.
13.45
From preaching to reaching 2 how can researchers and communicators actually influence workplace practice? (Battlebridge) This session addresses how science communicators can communicate their findings to practitioners and policy makers in a way that is accessible and interesting but also influences behaviour and practice.
Penny Fidler, The Association for Science and Discovery Centres
Paula Vandergert, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
Justin Dillon, King’s College London
Keith Farley, Cambridge University
Robin Hoyle, Glasgow Science Centre
Steve Shaw, Sustainable Urban Environments research consortium
Chair: Nick Winterbotham, Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum
12.45
1
How does public opinion influence business behaviour? (Battlebridge)
This session explores how companies balance business profit with public attitudes. How do businesses monitor public attitudes? How do they react, change or try to alter their customers’ behaviour? Mike Barry, Marks & Spencer Atul Arya, Energy & Climate Policy, BP Chair: Jonathon Rees, Proof Communication Ltd
Facilitator: Kate Beckmann, Heriot-Watt University
Lunch Session 9 Conference plenary
3
Sustainability of public engagement projects This session explores a variety of public engagement projects that are addressing sustainability, followed by a discussion on how to make the best use of funding to ensure a balance between supporting innovation and longevity of initiatives. Claire Cockcroft, The Babraham Institute, Clare Matterson, Wellcome Trust, Chair: Philippa Bayley, University of Bristol
Time
Session type
14.45
Refreshments
15.15
Session 10
Tuesday 23 June 2009
Conference splits into 6 parallel sessions
Tuesday 23 June 2009
Session description
Popular culture as a tool for public engagement (Hall 2)
1
Building ‘The Tower of Life’ for the International Arts Pestival
2
Ensuring your public engagement project is sustainable (St Pancras)
3
Can the scientific establishment appropriate innovative cultural forms to reach out to new audiences? Using hip hop and comics as vehicles, this session explores the potential of popular culture as a science communication vehicle. The session includes a live performance of the ‘NASA Rap’ and a reading from ‘Selenia’.
(Battlebridge) This session explores how to bring together people from various disciplines such as engineers, architects, biologists and artists and how to broker the relationships between these groups. Do these types of collaborations lead to new forms of public engagement which help partners develop their ideas?
This problem-solving workshop leads on from the earlier plenary session. Aimed at people who have significant experience of securing funding and have either developed ways of ensuring their project’s longevity or are seeking ways of doing so. The workshop focuses on challenges and solutions brought by participants in an interactive, discussion-led format.
Jonathan Chase, University of Glamorgan
Bridget Nicholls, Pestival
Patrick Middleton, BBSRC
Mark Brake, University of Glamorgan
Rupert Soar, Freeform Engineering Ltd
Kate Miller, EPSRC
Emma Weitkamp, University of the West of England
Chris Bagot, Softroom Architects
Philippa Bayley, University of Bristol
Creating culturally relevant science cafés – lessons from abroad (Battlebridge)
Engaging young people in genetics (Limehouse)
4
Science cafés aim to fuse science with culture. But as cultures are diverse, cafés have to adapt to be inclusive and relevant. This session provides an overview of current developments plus an explanation of the African Science Café model and its benefits for the UK.
5
Do young people think about genetics? Do they engage in genetics learning? Do they feel they have a say in decisions being made by policy makers about genetics? This session reports on two projects from South Wales that engaged young people with genetics.
Filming science demonstrations (Hall 1)
6
This practical workshop introduces a range of video equipment, skills and techniques and explores why classic science demonstrations are the perfect starting point for YouTube. Jonathan Sanderson, science film-maker
Joy Francis, The Creative Collective Sheila Ochugboju, African Technology Policy Studies Network Duncan Dallas, Café Scientifique
16.15
16.30
Session 11 Conference plenary
Anita Shaw, Techniquest Rachel Iredale, University of Glamorgan Claudine Anderson, The Wales Gene Park
Closing Session Frustrated science graduate and Funny Women finalist Rosie Wilby leads us on a comedic investigation into human memory, fitting in some spoof Greek mythology and beginner’s neuroscience on the way.
CLOSE
Design: www.savageandgray.co.uk
science communication conference
British Science Association Wellcome Wolfson Building 165 Queen’s Gate London SW7 5HD www.britishscienceassociation.org
The British Science Association would like to thank the following for their support: Wellcome Trust, BP, DIUS and Sciencewise-ERC. British Science Association is a registered charity, No. 212479 and SCO39236 This programme has been printed on FSC certified (SGS-COC-0912 ) 50% recycled and 50% virgin fibre paper stock using vegetable based ink.
