Browsing School of Education by Subject "Non-formal Science Education"
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Academic Writing in Museums
(2021)Museum staff strive to create environments rich in opportunity for visitors to explore their relationship with their heritage, culture, art, or science. Their unique expertise in communicating and creating educational ... -
Citizen Science in Ireland
(2021)Ireland has a rich history of public engagement with science and the growing number of national citizen science initiatives is in keeping with developments seen in other European countries. This paper explores several ... -
Citizen Science, Education, and Learning: Challenges and Opportunities
(2020)Citizen science is a growing field of research and practice, generating new knowledge and understanding through the collaboration of citizens in scientific research. As the field expands, it is becoming increasingly important ... -
Engaging migrant and refugee communities in non-formal science learning spaces.
(2020)In this era of pandemics, economic crises and civil unrest, science centres and museums have an opportunity to become truly relevant resources to society. This paper summarises a number of critical lessons from the PISEA ... -
How does moving public engagement with research online change audience diversity? Comparing inclusion indicators for 2019 & 2020 European Researchers? night events
(2022)Taking place annually in more than 400 cities, European Researchers’ Night is a pan- European synchronized event that aims to bring researchers closer to the public. In this paper audience profiles are compared from events ... -
Inclusion, reflection and co-creation: responsible science communication across the globe
(2022)Science communication is at the heart of many of the challenges our societies face today. At the same time, on-going changes in the relationship between science and society and the digitalisation of society can make ... -
Investigating diversity in European audiences for public engagement with research: Who attends European Researchers� Night in Ireland, the UK and Malta?
(2021)European Researchers’ Night is an annual pan-European synchronized event devoted to public engagement with research. It was first held in 2005 and now occurs in over 400 cities across Europe, with the aim of bringing ... -
The landscape of European science communication
(2021)European science communication project QUEST surveyed and reviewed different aspects of European science communication, including science journalism, teaching and training in science communication, social media activity, ... -
Learning in Citizen Science
(Springer Nature, 2021)Citizen science is a promising field for educational practices and research. However, it is also highly heterogeneous, and learning happens in diverse ways, according to project tasks and participants’ activities. Therefore, ... -
Perceptions of the European Space Sector: Youth Engagement With Space Education Events
(2021)Space education not only plays a key role in helping young people understand the natural world and their impact on the planet but is also vital in ensuring that future generations can make meaningful contributions to the ... -
Quality indicators for science communication: results from a collaborative concept mapping exercise
(2021)Although the need to improve quality of science communication is often mentioned in public discussions, the science communication literature offers few conceptualizations of quality. We used a concept mapping approach, ... -
Report on training needs in citizen science
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Science Communication Through STEAM: Professional Development and Flipped Classrooms in the Digital Age
(2021)STEAM is the term given to a growing field of research and practice that integrates arts into traditional science, technology, engineering, and mathematics subjects. It is also the name of a science communication summer ... -
Supporting quality in science communication: insights from the QUEST project
(2021)The promotion of quality is a critical aspect to consider in the re-examination of science communication. This problem is analysed in the research carried out by the QUEST project, as featured in this paper. Engaging key ... -
Taking Stock and Re-Examining the Role of Science Communication
(2021)Eight science communication research projects have been funded by the European Commission since 2018. These projects are a response to one of the European Commission's ‘Science with and for Society' (SwafS) funding calls ... -
The trouble with STEAM and why we use it anyway
(2021)As an emerging field of theory, research, and practice, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) has received attention for its efforts to incorporate the arts into the rubric of STEM (Science, ... -
Zines as Reflective Evaluation Within Interdisciplinary Learning Programmes
(2021)This paper presents a unique method for documenting and reflecting learning in interdisciplinary science learning settings, which prioritises the perspectives of marginalised learners and which may be used across cultural ...
