Science and the Public Postgraduate Conference 2006:
Interdisciplinary Approaches
PROGRAMME
9-9.25am
Registration (Room 309)
9.25-9.30am
Welcome by Dr Nick Russell, Director of Imperial College
Science Communication Group
9.30-11am
Session 1: Questions of trust (Room 311)
11-11.30am
Coffee break (Room 309)
11.30-1pm
Session 2a: Spare-time science (Room 311)
Session 2b: The classroom as context (Room 309)
1-2.30pm
Lunch (Room 309)
2.30-4pm
Session 3: Investigating audiences (Room 311)
4-5pm
Plenary session: Conference themes and responses/the
future for science and the public as a discrete area of
study/conference outputs and next steps (Room 311)
5.30pm onwards
Drinks reception and dinner (‘The Prince Regent’
Gloucester Road)
Session themes
Each session is made up of two or three papers, grouped around the title
theme. Presenters will speak for 20 minutes and there will be a panel
discussion at the end.
Session 1: Questions of trust (Room 311)
Chair: Dr Nick Russell
Rikke Schmidt Kjaeraard: Media coverage of South Korean cloning –
Constructing local narratives of stem-cell research
Louise Thorn (Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine,
Imperial College London): The historiography of trust – A different view of
science in museums
Richard Milne (Institute of Human Genetics and Health, University College
London): ‘Red’ and ‘green’ biotechnologies in regulation and public attitude
Session 2a: Spare-time science (Room 311)
Chair: Rachel Souhami
Tom Lean (Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine,
University of Manchester): HAL and the ZX81 – The ‘Cultural Computer’
1948-1984
Katherine Gillieson (Department of Typography and Graphic
Communication, University of Reading): Glossy science – the graphic
language of contemporary non-fiction
Carolyn MacLulich (University of Sydney): Making Meanings of the Distant
Past – representations of archaeology in museum exhibitions
Session 2b: The classroom as context (Room 309)
Chair: Sarah Davies
Sian Owen (Science Communication Unit, The University of Liverpool):
Communicating science to secondary school students with the creative and
performing arts
Jane Lehr (Centre for Informal Learning and Schools, Kings College
London): Scientifically Literate Citizenship in the United States in the 1980s –
Challenges to the ‘Deficit Model’ of Public Understanding of Science
Session 3: Investigating audiences (Room 311)
Chair: Jane Lehr
Morton Andreasen (Institute of Sociology, University of Copenhagen):
Investigating the public response to facts about human gene patenting
Elin Simonsson and Khadija Khan (Science Museum London): Taking
Dana Centre events to a new audience – Learning about Dana Centre
outreach
Helen Featherstone (Faculty of Applied Science, The University of the West
of England): Communicating climate change
Plenary session (Room 311)
Presenter and chair: Kevin Burchell (Department of Geography and
Environment, London School of Economics)