Prof. Eric Jensen
CEO and Research Director
Prof. Eric Jensen
CEO and Research Director
Books
Articles
Chapters
Reports
Publications
Books (selected)
Doing research in the real world: 5th Edition
From first planning to writing up your research, this complete guide will help you push your project forward. Walking you through every step you need…
Science communication: An introduction
A concise, coherent and easily readable textbook about the field of science communication, connecting the practice of science communicators with theory. In the book, recent…
Doing real research: A practical guide to social research
Challenging the formality and idealized settings of conventional methods teaching and opting instead for a real world approach to social research, this book offers frank,…
Culture and Social Change: Transforming society through the power of ideas.
This book brings together social sciencists to create an interdisciplinary dialogue on the topic of social change as a cultural process. Culture is as much…
Articles in International Peer-reviewed Journals
Strategic priorities and challenges in research software funding: Results from an international survey [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 2 approved with reservations, 1 not approved]
Research software is increasingly recognized as critical infrastructure in contemporary science. It spans a broad spectrum, including source code files, algorithms, scripts, computational workflows, and…
Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world
Language matters in shaping perceptions and guiding behaviour. The term stakeholder is widely used, yet little attention is paid to the possibility that its use may inadvertently…
Analyzing who is relevant to engage in environmental decision-making processes by interests, influence and impact: The 3i framework
Outcomes in participatory environmental processes are strongly affected by choices about who is engaged. Inclusive engagement diversifies the range of interests and perspectives represented, including…
Transforming science narratives? The impact of explanatory labels of 3D data visualization on public understanding of space science
This survey experiment evaluates the effectiveness of explanatory labels in enhancing learning outcomes and attitudes in a space science documentary featuring cinematic-style data visualizations.
Picture perfect science communication: How public audiences respond to informational labels in cinematic-style 3D data visualization
Communicating science effectively is important. Effectively mobilizing practical techniques to achieve this goal can be challenging, however. One promising science communication approach that has gained…
Evidence-based research impact praxis: Integrating scholarship and practice to ensure research benefits society
Effective research impact development is essential to address global challenges. This commentary highlights key issues facing research impact development as a nascent professional field of…
Global indicators framework for socially responsible research and innovation (RRI): Aligning standards to monitor public and researcher perspectives with the UNESCO Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 not approved]
As calls for more socially responsible research and innovation (RRI) policies and practices grow more insistent, the need for high quality indicators that can be…
Social responsibility in research and innovation practice and policy across global regions, institutional types, and fields: Interview data and qualitative content analysis outputs revealing the perspectives and experiences of professionals
The European Commission-funded RRING (Responsible Research and Innovation Networked Globally) Horizon 2020 project aimed to deliver activities that promoted a global understanding of Socially Responsible…
Evaluating researcher and stakeholder perspectives on socially responsible research and innovation policies and practices in marine and maritime research performing organisations
The European Commission-funded GRRIP (Grounding RRI Practices) project aims to embed sustainable Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) practices in five research performing organisations (RPOs), focusing…
Global indicators framework for socially responsible research and innovation (RRI): Aligning standards to monitor public and researcher perspectives with the UNESCO Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 not approved]
As calls for more socially responsible research and innovation (RRI) policies and practices grow more insistent, the need for high-quality indicators that can be used…
Chapters in Edited Books
Microgenetic evaluation: Studying learning in motion
Reflexivity is a category that is too appealing not to arouse interest. It is a concept largely diffused in several psychological domains, as well as…
Quantification
Counting has long been a major tool in social science research methodology. In many fields, to understand a phenomenon is to quantify it, to represent…
Developing idiographic research methodology: Extending the Trajectory Equifinality Model and Historically Situated Sampling
Cultural Psychology is a radical new look in psychology that studies how persons and social-cultural worlds mutually constitute one another. With the increase of globalization…
Scientific controversies and the struggle for symbolic power
This book brings together social sciencists to create an interdisciplinary dialogue on the topic of social change as a cultural process. Culture is as much…
Mediating social change: Irony, hybridity and corporate censorship
This book brings together social scientists to create an interdisciplinary dialogue on the topic of social change as a cultural process. Culture is as much…
Introduction: Theorizing culture and social change
This book brings together social scientists to create an interdisciplinary dialogue on the topic of social change as a cultural process. Culture is as much…
Conclusion: Cycles of social change
This book brings together social scientists to create an interdisciplinary dialogue on the topic of social change as a cultural process. Culture is as much…
Investigating science communication in the information age: Implications for public engagement and popular media
How are recent policy changes affecting how scientists engage with publics? How are digital technologies influencing how scientists disseminate their work and knowledge? How are…
(In)authentic science and (im)partial publics: (Re)constructing the science outreach and public engagement agenda
This chapter describes how focus group interviews were used to investigate scientists expressions of commitment to first (deficit), second (dialogic) and third (contextual) orders of…
Government Reports (selected)
Investigating the link between research data and impact (Phase 1 and Phase 2 reports)
The Institute for Methods Innovation – a research charity registered in the United States and United Kingdom – was commissioned by the Australian Research Data…
Supporting UNESCO Member States in Evidencing 10 Key Priority Areas – Measures and Indicators for Lithuania, Serbia and South Africa
The UNESCO Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers (RSSR) sets out a number of globally agreed expectations for national systems of science to anticipate and…
GRRIP WP5 – Researcher Survey
Respondents of this survey work in a research performing or research funding organisation in the marine and maritime sector which is taking part in the GRRIP…
GRRIP WP5 – Stakeholder Survey
This dataset includes the full survey data of the GRRIP project's WP5 Stakeholder Survey, including documentation about using the dataset and the original survey design.
RRING Global Survey Research Dataset (WP3)
The RRING Work Package 3 (WP3) objective was to clarify how Research Funding Organisations (RFOs) and Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) operated within region-specific research and…
Viral Communication Phase I-II
This dataset represents the anonymised data collected as part of the Viral Communication (Understand-ELSED) project. It includes the two measurements, Phase I (30 October 2020…
Viral Communication Phase I-II Merged
This dataset represents the anonymised data collected as part of the Viral Communication (Understand-ELSED) project. It includes the two measurements, Phase I (30 October 2020…
Understand-ELSED Main Survey Phase I Data
This dataset represents the anonymized data collected as part of the Viral Communication (Understand-ELSED) main survey between 30 October 2020 and 14 December 2020. Weights…
Viral Communication: Longitudinal Survey Data on the Social Dimensions of the COVID-19 Pandemic
This dataset represents the anonymised data collected as part of the Viral Communication (Understand-ELSED) project, which focussed on the social and ethical dimensions of the…
Cosmic Vision Public Consultation on EU Public Attitudes about the Future of Space Science
Jensen, E. A. & Jensen, A. M. (2019). Cosmic Vision Public Consultation on EU Public Attitudes about the Future of Space Science. European Space Agency.
Professional Publications (selected)
Responsible science communicators
It takes critical reflection, evidence-based practice and a community of practice to develop responsible science communication There are many different pathways into science communication. But…
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