Collaborative Research: The Influence of Low-Carbon Energy Technology Scientists and Engineers on the Composition of Energy Policy

项目概述本项目是一个合作的、多地点的人种学研究，将研究科学家使用的修辞如何影响科学对政策的贡献。研究人员将研究科学家如何就政策问题相互参与和争论。具体来说，他们将收集和分析从事两种低碳能源技术发展的科学家所使用的修辞，风力发电和核电，以了解他们的推理构成如何影响能源政策，以及他们的修辞如何可以作为将科学知识整合到政策决策中的富有成效的起点。更广泛的影响该项目具有社会意义，可培训各类学生掌握社会科学方法，并使参与的科学家了解研究结果，以便在有关减缓气候变化和能源安全等关键问题的决策中更好地将科学纳入其中。

Project OverviewThis project is a collaborative, multi-sited ethnographic study that will examine how the rhetoric used by scientists serves to influence scientific contributions to policy.Intellectual MeritThe researchers will examine how scientists engage and argue with one another about policy. Specifically, they will collect and analyze the rhetoric used by scientists who are engaged in the development of two types of low carbon energy technologies, wind power and nuclear power, in order to understand how the composition of their reasoning influences energy policy, and how their rhetoric could serve as a productive starting point for integrating scientific knowledge into policy decisions.Broader ImpactsThe project has societal relevance in terms of training a diverse set of students in social science methodologies and of making the participating scientists aware of the results so as to improve the integration of science in policymaking with respect to the crucial issues of climate change mitigation and energy security.