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Podcast 5: Science and Society
at 2:59pm on Wednesday, 6th September 2006
And so to the fifth Demos podcast. It’s the annual BA Festival of Science this week – one of the UK’s biggest annual get-togethers of the science community where Demos is launching a new project “ScienceHorizons” about public engagement in the future of science. With this in mind Demos Podcast 5 features Professor Kathy Sykes, Collier Professor of Public Engagement in Science and Engineering at Bristol University in conversation with Jack Stilgoe, who is a Senior Researcher specialising in Science at Demos.
In many ways, science has never had it so good. Research budgets are as high as they’ve ever been and are still rising. And science and innovation are core themes of Labour’s third term agenda. But the relationship between science and wider society still needs work. Fewer people are becoming scientists, university departments are closing and there is lingering public unease about the way that science is governed.
Kathy and Jack talk about the legitimacy of scientists to act in the public interest, and the role of the public in scientists professional life. If you’re interested in reading more about this, you might want to look at See-Through Science or The Public Value of Science.
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