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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC): News media training

The logo of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) runs a one-day training course in news media. The website for the course describes it in the following terms:

Citizens Juries: a radical alternative for social research

The logo of Social Research Update.

In this pamplet, Tom Wakeford considers the case for using citizen juries in social research projects. In so doing, he describes the process of running a citizens jury, and notes that:

Dialogue academy - professional development for science communicators

The logo of dialogue academy.

Dialogue academy is described on this website as being: "all about helping professional science communicators gain the ideas, tools, skills and techniques to use dialogue and debate to engage audience

Science in the public eye (2)

In this short article, produced for a Royal Society-commissioned CPD course held at the Open University, the author considers the following questions:

Sciences in the public eye (1)

In this short article, produced for a Royal Society-commissioned CPD course held at the Open University, Richard Holliman considers the following questions:

Science in its social landscape

In this short article, which Matthew Harvey (Senior Policy Advisor at the Royal Society) produced for a Royal Society-commissioned CPD course held at the Open University, he argues that: “A popular

Science and society now

In this short article, which Stephen Webster (Director of the Science Communication Group at Imperial College) produced for a Royal Society-commissioned CPD course held at the Open University, he prov

Science, policy and people

In this short article, which Giskin Day (from the Science Communication Group at Imperial College) produced for a Royal Society-commissioned CPD course held at the Open University, she considers the f

Royal Society/Open University Science in Society CPD course for scientists

This is a photograph of Richard Jones delivering his lecture.

The Royal Society Science in Society programme piloted a professional development course on the social and ethical dimensions of science in February 2008.

Finding and projecting the voice of science and engineering

In this short article, which Bob Ward produced for a Royal Society-commissioned CPD course held at the Open University, he briefly describes an important contemporary scientific issue (with a particul