Communicating Science and Technology in Society

Introduction: How the Sociology of Science and Technology Addresses Science and Society Relations (Ana Delicado).- Part I: Scientists' Research Practices and Responses to Societal Demands.- Norms, Competition, and Visibility in Contemporary Science: The Legacy of Robert K. Merton ( Massimiano Bucchi).- Re-distributing Responsibility in Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production and Circulation (Thomas Völker).- How Do Scientists Doing Animal Experimentation View the Co-evolution Between Science and Society? The Swiss Case (Fabienne Crettaz Von Roten).- Science-Society Relations in a Context of Technological Change: How Scientists Working on Renewable Energy Technologies Perceive Their Role in the Energy Transition (Luís Junqueira).- Part II: Science Communication and Citizen Participation in Science.- Bringing Science to Public: Is it a Matter for Scientific Associations? (Cristina Palma Conceição).- Turning the Gaze on Ourselves: Public Communication of Sociology (Ana Delicado).- Technologies of Participation in Water Plans in Portugal: What kind of Science-Society Relation Are We Talking About? (Sofia Bento & Oriana Rainho Brás).- Material Trajectories: How issues Come to Matter in a Citizen Conference (Guillem Palà & Miquel Domènech).- Two Turtles: Children and Autonomy in Participatory Technological Design (Núria Vallès-Peris & Miquel Domènech).

Ana Delicado is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) of the University of Lisbon and has a PhD in Sociology (2006). She specialises in social studies of science. She is currently vice-coordinator of the "Observa" Observatory of Environment, Territory and Society of ICS. She has coordinated competitively funded national projects on scientific associations and on acceptance of renewable energies and the ICS team in four EU-funded research projects on children and disaster risk reduction, renewable energy landscapes, and science communication. She has also conducted research on scientific museums and scientific culture, international mobility of researchers, social aspects of climate change, nuclear and fusion energy. She teaches in the University of Lisbon Master Degree in Scientific Culture and Science Dissemination and several PhD programmes (including the PhD programme on Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies) and frequently engages in science outreach. She is a member of European Sociological Association (currently coordinator of the Research Network 24 Science and Technology); of EASST European Association for the Study of Science and Technology; and of the international network PCST (Public Communication of Science and Technology). She has published in relevant journals in the field: Public Understanding of Science, Journal of Science Communication, Minerva, Environmental Education Research, Science and Public Policy, International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. She was awarded the publication prize of the University of Lisbon in 2018. 

Fabienne Crettaz von Roten has a PhD in mathematics and is now Senior Lecturer and Head of the Observatoire Science, Politique et Société at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research offers a symmetrical view of the relation between science and society: public perceptions of science and society