6: Science Communication

Project: “Science and Human Histories”Has public confidence in the ethics and capacities of science declined in recent times? Topics such as climate change, vaccines, telecommunications, food safety, and most recently COVID-19 have been the subject of debate. This project examines one of the key factors which lies behind the conflict between science and its critics: specifically, the way in which science is, and has been, communicated to society.The team expertise for this Societal Challenge is in Museum Studies and Physics:Dr Jennifer Walklate, Lecturer in Museum Studies,Department of Anthropology, University of AberdeenDr Veronica Gonzalez-Fernandez, Assistant Professor in Physics, Department of Optics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Dr Antonija Grubisic-Cabo, Assistant Professor in PhysicsZernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen