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

项目概述这个项目是一项协作的、多地点的人种学研究，将考察科学家使用的修辞如何影响对政策的科学贡献。智力价值研究人员将调查科学家如何参与并相互争论政策。具体地说，他们将收集和分析从事两种低碳能源技术开发的科学家使用的修辞，以了解他们的推理组合如何影响能源政策，以及他们的修辞如何成为将科学知识融入政策决策的富有成效的起点。广泛影响该项目在培训不同的学生学习社会科学方法和让参与的科学家了解结果方面具有社会意义，从而在缓解气候变化和能源安全的关键问题上加强科学在决策中的整合。

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.