Making Science Public

Tag: public concerns

  • Re-imagining the public / re-imagining the political

    Re-imagining the public / re-imagining the political

      Last month (15-16 May) I attended a conference organised by Michel Ledda, Robert Cowley, and David Chandler from the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) at the University of Westminster entitled: ‘New perspectives on the problem of the public’. Together with Sujatha Raman I work on the Leverhulme funded project ‘Models of Managing…

  • The Threat of Fracking: Real or Constructed?

    The Threat of Fracking: Real or Constructed?

    Guest post by Dr. Rusi Jaspal, Research Fellow on the ESRC’s Climate Change as a Complex Social Issue programme in the School of Sociology & Social Policy. (This post can be read in conjunction with Rusi’s 2014 article in The Conversation) Global energy consumption is likely to rise significantly over the next two decades with…

  • Climategate, media volume and public concerns – what’s the relation?

    Climategate, media volume and public concerns – what’s the relation?

    In my last blog I promised some further discussion of the link between media volume and public concern about climate change. This is what today’s blog is about, based on some work I carried out with a former MA student, Alan Valdez. Discussions about the agenda-setting power of the media, particularly in the context of…