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  • NSF INCLUDES DDLP: Math FACESS (Families & Communities Empowering Student Success in Mathematics)
    Date: 12/15/2017
    Resource Category: Project Descriptions
    This NSF INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilot will improve math achievement among elementary school students of color in public schools in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Recognizing the need to coordinate efforts related to students' math and science achievement, key stakeholders formed the NM STEM Ecosystem, a dynamic network of cross-sector ... »
  • Science communication practices at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
    Date: 12/13/2017
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is one of the world's single largest employers of science communicators, with over 350,000 students and 40,000 staff. Its science communication activities include five museums (Universum, Museo de la Luz, the Geology Museum, Museo de la Medicina Mexicana and Musem of Geophysics), botanical ... »
  • The “Gateway Belief” illusion: reanalyzing the results of a scientific-consensus messaging study
    Date: 12/13/2017
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    This paper analyzes data collected but not reported in the study featured in van der Linden, Leiserowitz, Feinberg, and Maibach [van der Linden et al., 2015]. VLFM report finding that a “scientific consensus” message “increased” experiment subjects' “key beliefs about climate change” and “in turn” their “support for public action” to mitigate it. ... »
  • Gateway illusion or cultural cognition confusion?
    Date: 12/13/2017
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    In this paper, we respond to the critiques presented by [Kahan, 2017]. Contrary to claims that the scientific consensus message did not significantly influence the key mediator and outcome variables in our model, we show that the experiment in [van der Linden et al., 2015] did in fact directly influence key beliefs about climate change. We also ... »
  • Considering what works: experiments in science communication
    Date: 12/13/2017
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    This editorial provides an overview of the Journal of Science Communication, volume 16, issue 5. This issue of JCOM explores the question ‘what works in science communication?’ from a variety of angles, as well as focusing on the politically sensitive topic of climate change. In addition, the issue contains a set of commentaries that explore the ... »
  • Introduction to Commentary on Universities and Science Communication
    Date: 12/13/2017
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    This is an introduction to four essays in a Commentary that examine contributions of universities to science communication’s development but also challenges in consolidating those efforts. ... »
  • Universities, science communication and professionalism
    Date: 12/13/2017
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    This essay examines several distinct roles universities play in science communication, with particular reference to professionalisation in the field. It identifies the ways in which universities have facilitated, even driven, that continuing process. But it also notes the potential and actual contradictions between some of the roles of ... »
  • Universities as living labs for science communication
    Date: 12/13/2017
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    Science communication research and education programmes worldwide exhibit notable differences as well as similarities. In this essay the authors claim that this diversity is not a problem. They argue that universities can contribute well to the science communication field, theoretically and in practice, if they invest in building collaborations ... »
  • Supporting excellence in engaged research
    Date: 12/13/2017
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    This paper reviews the purposes, definitions and criteria designed to embed ‘engaged research’ as a strategic priority with universities, and explores some of the challenges of implementation. Surveys of academics have shown various understandings of, and attitudes to, the practices of engaged research, but also impediments to realising the ... »
  • The influence of temperature on #ClimateChange and #GlobalWarming discourses on Twitter
    Date: 12/10/2017
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    Research suggests non-experts associate different content with the terms “global warming” and “climate change.” We test this claim with Twitter content using supervised learning software to categorize tweets by topic and explore differences between content using “global warming” and “climate change” between 1 January 2012 and 31 March 2014. ... »

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