[ogf20pc] Public outreach of e-Science

[David Wallom]

Hello All,

Bearing in mind dropping participation in Computer Science as well as other
maths and science subjects within schools and universities that appear to be
a nearly global problem as well as public uncertainty with various
scientific areas, I am convinced that we all need to work much harder at the
problem of Public Engagement in Science. I would like to have a session at
OGF 20 that has two lines of discussion. Firstly with a collection of world
leading science projects that have had a public engagement component we
should be ensuring that lessons are being learned from their point of view.
The second component is from the professionals in Science communication to
ensure that their experiences are fed back into the research communities.

I would also like to think about in future having as part of the community
track a program open to members of the general public, including local young
people with a plenary, workshop and possible participatory session? I think
that, apart from standards, a great service that OGF could do for research
since it should be attracting both the CS base but also novel
interdisciplinary research projects into the community sessions that can
really provoke public interest.

So please could all members of the PC please either contact directly, or
pass their contact details onto me, those people either within their own
communities who are very active in this area or funding agencies that make a
PES component part of any grant etc (I have heard that NSF cam be like
this?). That way we can have a healthy participation in this session and try
to build something in future meetings. I have heard from dave Berry about a
project called EPIC so if I could get further details on this it would be
very much appeciated.

Regards

David
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Dr. David Wallom
Technical Manager
Oxford e-Research Centre
University of Oxford
7 Keble Road
Oxford
OX1 3QG

Tel  : +44 (0)1865 610601
email: david.wallom at oerc.ox.ac.uk
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From: David Wallom <david.wallom at oerc.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:19:37 +0000
To: Myles Allen <allen at atm.ox.ac.uk>, Simon Cox <s.j.cox at soton.ac.uk>,
Morgane Artacho <martacho at nesc.ac.uk>, <j.redfearn at jisc.ac.uk>,
<coleman at nesc.ac.uk>
Conversation: Public outreach of e-Science
Subject: FW: Public outreach of e-Science

Hello All,

As below I have been asked by Dave Berry to consider facilitating setup of a
session on ³Public Outreach within e-Science².

As some of you are actively engaged in such an activity, whilst others have
used public outreach very successfully it was thought that this could be a
very good group to get together and knock out the possible bare bones of a
session. Dave B had some ideas below and I would be very interested in
looking at methods for public engagement and measuring their success. This
could also involve the members of HAS-RG to actually do some research whilst
participating in our session.

Please come back with your thoughts.

Regards

David
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Dr. David Wallom
Technical Manager
Oxford e-Research Centre
University of Oxford
7 Keble Road
Oxford
OX1 3QG

Tel  : +44 (0)1865 610601
email: david.wallom at oerc.ox.ac.uk
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From: Dave Berry <daveb at nesc.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:59:43 -0000
To: David Wallom <david.wallom at oerc.ox.ac.uk>
Cc: Morgane Artacho <martacho at nesc.ac.uk>
Conversation: Public outreach of e-Science
Subject: RE: Public outreach of e-Science

Hi David,
 
This session would be in the morning on Tuesday May 8th.
 
I'd like to introduce Morgane Artacho, who is project officer for the ICEAGE
project.  As outreach is also part of the responsibility of the NeSC
training team, Morgane may be able to contribute to this session.  In
discussion today several names were mentioned.
 
We could also involve Iain Coleman, who is our science writer, and Judy
Redfearn, who is the science writer for JISC & EPSRC.   Malcolm is
interested, if his schedule doesn't clash.
 
Malcolm mentioned a USA project called EPIC which is about taking e-science
into schools.
 
I agree that the outcomes are important to establish.  I was thinking of the
session as a sharing of experiences and "best practice" in (i) how to
explain the science in a way that attracts and engages people without
overhyping it (because obviously we don't do hype in the grid world), (ii)
how to engage the media in this (e.g. CP.net's experiences) and (iii) how to
include schools in that outreach.  Those aren't outcomes, so we need to
decide whether we want a report, an ongoing activity, or something else.
Either way, we need someone who would actually want to do this.  We also
need someone who will lead the session.
 
I should perhaps make clear at this point that I'm only proposing this in my
role as PC chair.  I'm not planning to lead the activity.
 
Best wishes,
 
Dave.
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>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Wallom  [mailto:david.wallom at oerc.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: 10 March 2007  08:36
> To: Dave Berry
> Subject: Re: Public outreach of  e-Science
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> What day and session would be  involved? I have had back from CP.net that they
> actually have a public  understanding person employed on the project who
> happens to actually be based  in Manchester.... So we only need to know time
> and place and we¹re sorted with  them.
> 
> I want to lock down what outcome we want rfom the meeting to make  sure we get
> GEODISE (Simon C) on beard.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> On 8/3/07  12:23, "Dave Berry" <daveb at nesc.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>  
>> Hi  David,
>> 
>> Have you had any response from the ClimatePrediction.net and  GENIE folks
>> about a possible session on e-science and the  public?
>> 
>> BTW, the e-Science keynote is still up in the air.  I'm  chasing a couple of
>> possible speakers who are more closely linked with  OGF.
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Dave  Berry
>> Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development
>> National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street
>> Edinburgh, EH8 9AA                   +44  131 651 4039
>> 
>> 
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> Dr. David Wallom
> Technical  Manager
> Oxford e-Research Centre
> University of Oxford
> 7 Keble  Road
> Oxford
> OX1 3QG
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> Tel  : +44 (0)1865 610601
> email:  david.wallom at oerc.ox.ac.uk
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