Demos

Theme : publicengagement

The Received Wisdom The modern world needs experts. They are everywhere. In government, we are told that they are a resource – ‘on tap, not on top.’ But experience over the last 20 years, from BSE to MMR and beyond, has punctured the old, ‘speaking truth to power,’ model of expertise. The policy response to BSE has been to open up. But are we making the most of openness? from : markfuller 8th December 2006
Podcast 5: Science and Society And so to the fifth Demos podcast. It’s the annual BA Festival of Science this week – one of the UK’s biggest annual get-togethers of the science community where Demos is launching a new project “ScienceHorizons” about public engagement in the future of science. With this in mind Demos Podcast 5 features Professor Kathy Sykes, Collier Professor of Public Engagement in Science and Engineering at Bristol University in conversation with Jack Stilgoe, who is a Senior... from : charlietims 6th September 2006