Te Pūnaha Matatini International Advisory Board: February 2024
Kia ora, TPM's International Advisory Board.
This page shares information about the Engagement Incubator: a participatory process for iterating engagement ideas, connecting scientists and researchers with 'best practice' from public engagement with science (PES) theory.
The resources will remain here—laundromat.makinggood.design/TPM-IAB—for your reference. Ngā mihi.
This page by direct link: laundromat.makinggood.design/TPM-IAB
We use science communication is an umbrella term covering any ‘organised, explicit, and intended actions that aim to communicate scientific knowledge, methodology, processes or practices in settings where non-scientists are a recognized part of the audience’ (Horst et al., 2017). Engagement (or public engagement with science (PES)) is a subset where there is an expectation of two-way processes with mutual benefit for publics and researchers.
See Cunliffe (2004) and (2016); Salmon et al.(2017) and Bailey, et al. (2022).
In line with TPM's philosophy and commitment to a generous, nurturing and supportive research culture we shared the resources under a CC licence…
We found:
Three overarching interrelated issues voiced by participants:
1. the value of design (of process; experience; and of artefacts)
2. collective social experience and culture
3. resonant content from public engagement with science (PES) theory
WE FOUND:
Three key points of reflection pertinent to theory for us as researchers:
1. the role that design played in making PES theory practiceable;
2. our role as researchers enacting PES theory;
3. the circularity and need to continually revisit engagement work
See Bailey et al. (2022) and Finlay (2008).
