We are now reviewing the Action Plan included in the report to see what progress has been made since 2010. We would like your views on the progress made, as well as actions which have yet to be completed. We’d also like to hear about any other activity which you feel is contributing to the delivery of the recommendations or which you feel are no longer relevant or important and for what reason.

The action plan can be downloaded here:

Science for All Action Plan Update – September 2012

In sharing your own experience and views, you will be helping us build up a picture of the current landscape, what is working well, and what the role of Government should be. We particularly welcome evaluations of impact and effectiveness of activities.

 The evidence that we collect from you will feed into the later phases of this project in which we will develop a new set of BIS objectives and programme of activity which complement and add value to the broader science and society endeavour in the UK.

Please leave any comments in the box at the bottom of the page or email the Science and Society team at scienceandsociety@bis.gsi.gov.uk. The deadline for responses is the 30 September 2012.

Science for All Follow-on Group

Minutes of the Science for All Follow-on Group Meeting 8 October 2012

Minutes of the Science for All Follow-on Group meeting of 11 November 2011

Agenda for Science for All Follow-on Group meeting 11 July 2011

Minutes of the Science for All Follow-on Group meeting 28 March 2011

Agenda of the Science for All Follow-on Group meeting 28 March 2011

Minutes of the Science for All Follow-on Group meeting 26 January 2011

Agenda for Science for All Follow-on Group meeting 26 January 2011

Minutes of the Science For All Follow-on Group meeting 30 September 2010

Agenda for Science for All Follow-up Group Meeting 14th June 2010

Minutes of the Science for All Follow-on Group Meeting 14 June 2010

Agenda for Science for All Follow-on Group Meeting 30th March 2010

Minutes of the Science for All Follow-on Group meeting 30th March 2010

Science for All Expert Group

Agenda for Science for All Expert Group Meeting 12th November 2009

Minutes of the Science for All Expert Group Meeting 12th November 2009

Minutes of the Science for All Expert Group Meeting 24th September 2009

Minutes of the Science for All Expert Group Meeting 7 July 2009

In its Action Plan, the Science for All Group committed to researching business motivations for public engagement. BIS and the Royal Academy of Engineering commissioned TNS-BMRB to conduct a study, which is published here.

Business motivations for engaging the public in science and engineering

The Science for All report highlighted a need to ‘create a wider understanding of why, when and how the public engages with the sciences’ and included an action to ‘develop a common framework to describe types/purposes of public engagement’.

To this end, a tool has been created by the follow-on group in order to spark conversations about public engagement and help define and inspire the approaches and methods of effectively engaging the public.

You can dowload the tool here:  UPDATED: Public Engagement for Science and Society – a conversational tool

Development of this tool was led by Lindsey Colbourne (Sciencewise Expert Resource Centre) for the Science for All Follow up group and we are grateful to all those who contributed to a workshop and on an earlier version online

Purpose

• when promoting (public) engagement needs or benefits (matching purposes to types of engagement)
• to broaden awareness (and use) of full range of (public) engagement available
• to help design engagement/ clarify what type engagement is sought
• undertaking a skills (or training needs) audit for individuals or organisations
• in evaluating engagement, including what is being delivered against what is being promised (myth debunking)
• mapping different engagement activities or volume of activity

Feedback – in practice

We would now like to invite you, as a public engagement brokers to have a go with the tool. We’d welcome your feedback on your experience of trying it and how it could be used and improved. Although this is the latest version of the tool, we hope that it will evolve and improve to better meet your needs.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions do please get in touch with us at scienceandsociety@bis.gov.uk. Alternatively you can leave comments/thoughts on the tool at the bottom of this webpage.

Comments left below up until 3 November 2010 refer to a draft version of the tool. These comments have been taken on board in the development of the final version.

The Group’s Report, Science for All, was published on 9 February 2010. It is available through the link below, along with a number of supporting documents. Discuss the report here by posting a comment at the bottom of this page.

Science for All – Final Report and Action Plan

Research commissioned by the Science for All Expert Group has fed into this report and can be downloaded below:

A review of the evidence base surrounding the value of public engagement by scientists

Aspects of science in UK culture

Public engagement map

Reward and recognition of public engagement

Informing the development of a competency framework for public engagement

Learning for change in public, educational and other science organisations: embedding greater public engagement

Organisational learning and change for public engagement