Over the past few decades, significant advances have been made in public engagement
with, and the democratization of, science and technology. Despite notable successes, such …

Mainstream approaches to energy democracy and public engagement with energy
transitions tend to adopt specific, pre-given meanings of both “democracy” and “publics.” …

Rural community energy projects in the Global South have too frequently been framed within
a top-down technologically-driven framework that limits their ability to provide sustainable …

The prospect of fracking in the United Kingdom has been accompanied by significant public
unease. We outline how the policy debate is being framed by UK institutional actors, finding …

Scholars have variously described different models of science communication over the past
20 years. However, there has been little assessment of theorised models against science …

Abstract In January 2014, then British Prime Minister David Cameron declared that his
government was 'Going all out for Shale.'In November 2019, during an election campaign …

While previous research into understandings of climate change has usually examined
general public perceptions, this study offers an audience-specific departure point. This …

Innovation is about more than technological invention. It involves change of many kinds:
cultural, organisational and behavioural as well as technological. So, in a world crying out …

Blogs provide potential for publics to engage more deliberatively through dialogue in
controversial science than one-way dissemination methods. This study investigated who …

Public engagement with science has become a prominent area of research and effort for
democratizing science. In the fall of 2020, we held an online conference, Public …