Why does public engagement matter? Why should it matter and how can it be made to matter more? These are the questions Mark Carrigan and Nick Mahony explore in this LSE Impact of Social Sciences blogpost by looking at the context of contemporary higher education where technology, institutional pressure, and an increasing diversity of engagement initiatives are emerging, within academia and beyond.
Creating Publics
public engagement, social science and the politics of public mediation
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SCIENCE AND PUBLICS IN DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES
The aim of the conference ‘Science and Public in Decision Making Processes‘ – hosted by Charles University in Prague on 25 October 2012 – is to discuss the relation between knowledge, expertise and public decision-making processes. There are plenaries by Andrew Sterling (University of Sussex) and Claudia Neubauer (Fondation Sciences Citoyennes) and others. As well as a set of panels, there will also be a workshop on ‘Conceptualising and making the publics of social science’, which I’ve co-organised with Simon Smith (who is a research fellow at University of Leeds and who I first met at the launch event of the Creating Publics project). This will look into how different ideas of contemporary crises can mediate a set of distinct ways of thinking about how researchers and publics are being positioned (and might take a position) in the current conjuncture.
Creating Publics 