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How academic biologists and physicists view science outreach.

Elaine Howard Ecklund¹, Sarah A James, Anne E Lincoln

¹Department of Sociology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America. ehe@rice.edu

|May 17, 2012

Summary

Academic scientists

Area of Science:

Scientific communication
Public engagement
STEM outreach

Background:

Growing call for U.S. scientists to increase public outreach.
Limited systematic studies on scientists' perceptions of outreach barriers.

Purpose of the Study:

To classify scientists' outreach activities and target audiences.
To explore scientists' narratives on outreach and its academic reception.
To identify perceived impediments to science outreach.

Main Methods:

Analysis of 97 semi-structured interviews with academic biologists and physicists.
Focus on scientists at top U.S. research universities.

Main Results:

Outreach activities are stratified by gender.

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