The Big Lunch Extras website features ideas and advice on what to do in your local community, a set of activities to try , inspirational stories from neighbourhoods around the UK, and simple guides to help you get to grips with big ideas.
For more information, visit: http://www.biglunchextras.com
The Royal Institution website features a range of educational games and quizzes to learn more about science, engineering and the natural world.
For more information visit: http://rigb.org/education/games
A one-day experiential training course to explore public engagement activities that researchers can get involved in. The material has been written for postgraduate researchers and research staff with little or no public engagement experience but the exercises may work for other audiences.
For more info, please click here: https://www.vitae.ac.uk/vitae-publications/vitae-library-of-resources/about-vitae-researcher-development-programmes/engaging-researcher
International Journal of Science Education Part B: Communication and Public Engagement will address the communication between and the engagement by individuals and groups concerning evidence-based information about the nature, outcomes, and social consequences, of science and technology.
For more information, please visit: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rsed20#.VaPR5Pkz6VB
Public Understanding of Science is a fully peer reviewed, quarterly international journal covering all aspects of the inter-relationships between science (including technology and medicine) and the public. Topics Covered Include: popular representations of science, scientific and para-scientific belief systems, science in schools, history of science, education of popular science, science and the media.
For more information, please visit: http://pus.sagepub.com/
Science Communication (SC), published bi-monthly, is an international, interdisciplinary social science journal that examines the nature of expertise, the diffusion of knowledge, and the communication of science and technology among professionals and to the public.
For more information, please visit: http://scx.sagepub.com/
JCOM is an open access journal on science communication. Since the world of communication and the scientific community are now undergoing a rapid and uncertain transition, JCOM wants to provide some theoretical guidelines both for scholars and practitioners in the field of public communication of science and technology.
For more information, please visit: http://jcom.sissa.it
The National Genetics and Genomics Education Centre has published a collection of free-to-use genetics and genomic images.
Here’s an example:
For details, please see here.
Research Involvement and Engagement is an open access interdisciplinary, health and social care journal focusing on patient and wider involvement and engagement in research, at all stages. The journal is co-produced by all key stakeholders, including patients, academics, policy makers and service users.
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