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Climate change is a global risk as its causes and effects are not limited to national borders, but the risks and the responsibility are not evenly spread [Beck, 2009]. Pakistan...
DATE: March 13th, 2018
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This INSPIRE award is partially funded by the Cyber-Human Systems Program in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems in the Directorate for Computer Science and Engineering, the Gravitational Physics...
DATES: October 1st, 2015 - September 30th, 2019
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This study examines the relative efficacy of citizen science recruitment messages appealing to four motivations that were derived from previous research on motives for participation in citizen-science projects. We report...
DATE: February 6th, 2018
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While academic interest in science comics has been growing in recent years, the creators of these materials remain understudied. This research aimed to explore the experiences and views of science...
DATE: March 6th, 2019
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The rise of artificial intelligence has recently led to bots writing real news stories about sports, finance and politics. As yet, bots have not turned their attention to science, and...
DATE: March 6th, 2018
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Growing Beyond Earth (GBE) is Fairchildâs NASA-funded classroom science project designed to advance research on growing plants aboard spacecraft. As NASA looks toward a long term human presence beyond Earth...
DATE: August 25th, 2019
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This zine summarizes the book "Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning." It provides an accessible graphic introduction to how inequalities in everyday science learning happen, so that we can get...
DATE: October 17th, 2019
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The challenge to the science communication field put forward by Bruce Lewenstein, of the sector becoming a âghettoâ of women's over-representation (see the commentary by Lewenstein in this issue), is...
DATE: September 30th, 2019
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This essay discusses how gender-focused culture change initiatives developed for science (like Athena SWAN) might offer models for science communication. Such initiatives can seek to mobilise change amongst university departments...
DATE: September 30th, 2019
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There is a significant under-representation of women in STEM which is damaging societal progress for democratic, utilitarian, and equity reasons. However, changing stereotypes in STEM requires a solution denied by...
DATE: September 30th, 2019
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This comment discusses feminization of science communication as a process that is related to the professionalization of the field, but also with the subordination of its practices to certain ideas...
DATE: September 30th, 2019
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Feminist technoscience theory offers perspectives for science communication that both question common narratives and suggests new narratives. These perspectives emphasize issues of ethics and care often missing from science communication....
DATE: September 30th, 2019
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This commentary introduces feminist standpoint theory and discusses its potential value in science communication. It offers two ways in which feminist standpoints can help in both research and practice. First,...
DATE: September 30th, 2019
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This is a blog post describing the Why Zoos and Aquariums Matter webinar series through CAISE.
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DATE: March 20th, 2019
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This handout was prepared for the Climate Change Showcase at the 2019 ASTC Conference in Toronto, Ontario. It highlights resources available on InformalScience.org related to the topic of climate change.
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DATE: September 29th, 2019
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In this poster, the Center for Research on Lifelong STEM Learning shared lessons learned from a study that used audio and video data from GoPros to investigate the entry characteristics...
DATE: July 11th, 2019
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The poster presents information about a research study where we used video-based data collection to investigate how framing of interpretive signage influences visitorsâ talk and behaviors at exhibits. The poster...
DATE: July 11th, 2019
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One way to motivate young people from diverse backgrounds to pursue engineering careers is to enlist them as educators who can help the general public understand how engineers help respond...
DATES: July 1st, 2018 - November 30th, 2020
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In this paper we share an emerging analytical approach to designing and studying STEAM programs that focuses on how programs integrate the respective epistemic practicesâthe ways in which knowledge is...
DATE: October 6th, 2019
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As science communication develops as a field of both practice and research, it needs to address issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion across a wide range, including race, power, class,...
DATE: September 30th, 2019
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Itâs a simple idea. Introduce a kid to a scientist, and let the child ask questionsâwhatever they wonder about. Then ask the child to reflect a little on the conversation...
DATE: October 22nd, 2018
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Participants in this study reported a variety of resources used in the past to learn to code in Apex, including online tutorials, one-day classes sponsored by Salesforce, and meet-up groups...
DATE: September 30th, 2019
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Participants in this study reported a variety of resources used in the past to learn to code in Apex, including online tutorials, one-day classes sponsored by Salesforce, and meet-up groups...
DATE: September 30th, 2019
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Grassroots women's learn-to-code groups are springing up in many places. This infographic a study of one such group, in which more-knowledgeable "coaches" lead novice "learners" in learning software programming on...
DATE: September 30th, 2019
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For nearly 20 years, the UAB Center for Community OutReach Development (CORD) has conducted SEPA funded research that has greatly enhanced the number of minority students entering the pipeline to...
DATES: March 6th, 2019 - February 28th, 2024
