Investigating diversity in European audiences for public engagement with research: Who attends European Researchers' Night in Ireland, the UK and Malta?
Investigating diversity in European audiences for public engagement with research: Who attends European Researchers' Night in Ireland, the UK and Malta?
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0252854
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发表时间：
2021
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Roche J
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作者：
Jensen AM;Jensen EA;Duca E;Roche J
欧洲研究人员之夜是一年一度的泛欧洲同步活动，致力于公众参与研究。它于2005年首次举办，目前在欧洲400多个城市举行，旨在使研究人员更接近公众。为了调查这些事件中的社会包容性，我们在三个国家（爱尔兰，马耳他和英国）和2016年至2019年期间在七个城市（n = 1590）进行了调查研究。这项探索性描述性研究的结果证实了一个假设，即活动参与者的大学学历水平远远高于全国公众。这与公众基于社会经济地位不平等参与研究活动的更广泛模式是一致的。然而，我们还发现，与一般人群相比，活动参与者中少数民族代表的普遍性存在混合证据，因此未能支持第二个假设，即预测白色多数参与者的代表性过高。这第二个发现偏离了现有的研究结果之间的科学传播受众的种族多样性，提高了一些公众参与活动的社会包容性的这方面表现过度的可能性。总体而言，研究结果表明，欧洲研究人员之夜有潜力解决提高公众参与研究的受众多样性的关键目标，即使它在社会经济多样性的关键指标上福尔斯不足。
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 researchers closer to the general public. To investigate social inclusion in these events, we conducted survey research across three national contexts (Ireland, Malta and the UK) and events in seven cities between 2016 and 2019 (n = 1590). The results from this exploratory descriptive study confirmed one hypothesis, namely that event attendees had substantially higher levels of university qualification than the national publics. This is in line with wider patterns of unequal participation in public engagement with research activities based on socio-economic status. However, we also found mixed evidence on the prevalence of ethnic minority representation among event attendees compared to the general population, thus failing to uphold the second hypothesis that predicted an over-representation of white majority participants. This second finding diverges from existing research findings about ethnic diversity amongst science communication audiences, raising the possibility that some public engagement events are over-performing on this dimension of social inclusion. Overall, the findings demonstrate that European Researchers’ Night has potential for addressing the critical goal of enhancing the diversity of audiences for public engagement with research, even as it falls short on the key metric of socio-economic diversity.
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DOI：
10.1177/0963662517750072
发表时间：
2018-10
期刊：
Public understanding of science (Bristol, England)
影响因子：
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作者：
Dawson E
通讯作者：
Dawson E
影响因子：
4.9
作者：
Dawson, Emily
通讯作者：
Dawson, Emily
影响因子：
4.1
作者：
Cassidy, A
通讯作者：
Cassidy, A
影响因子：
2.4
作者：
Jensen, Eric A.;Gerber, Alexander
通讯作者：
Gerber, Alexander
影响因子：
4.3
作者：
Feinstein, Noah Weeth
通讯作者：
Feinstein, Noah Weeth