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
Critical review of the UK’s “gold standard” survey of public attitudes to science. Public Understanding of Science
Since 2000, the UK government has funded surveys aimed at understanding the UK public’s attitudes toward science, scientists, and science policy. Known as the Public…
Norms and Values in UK Science Engagement Practice
In recent years, there has been a rhetorical shift from ‘deficit’ to ‘dialogue’ and ‘engagement’ in UK policy and institutional discourse about science communication. Past…
SMILE: Twitter emotion classification using domain adaptation. CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Despite the widely spread research interest in social media sentiment analysis, sentiment and emotion classification across different domains and on Twitter data remains a challenging…
Outreach: Science festivals preach to the choir
Science festivals are designed to expand the public's interest in science, but we find that this genre of science communication appeals mainly to a select…
Critical response to Archer et al. (2015). “Science Capital”: A conceptual, methodological, and empirical argument for extending Bourdieusian notions of capital beyond the arts
Archer et al. (2015) propose contributing to science education theory by introducing the concept of ‘science capital’ to supplement influential French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s theory.…
Evaluating impact and quality of experience in the 21st century: using technology to narrow the gap between science communication research and practice
This essay begins by identifying some of the common challenges that explain this gap between evaluation evidence and practice. Automating evaluation processes through new technologies…
Evaluating indicator-based methods of ‘measuring long-term impacts of a science center on its community
This article addresses some of the challenges faced when attempting to evaluate the long-term impact of informal science learning interventions. To contribute to the methodological…
Highlighting the value of impact evaluation: enhancing informal science learning and public engagement theory and practice
In this critical response essay, I highlight the article’s tendency to construct a straw man version of ‘impact evaluation’ that is impossible to achieve, while…
Evaluating the contribution of zoos and aquariums to Aichi Biodiversity Target 1
The United Nations Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 is a key initiative within global efforts to halt and eventually reverse the loss of biodiversity. The…
Cloning wild life: zoos, captivity, and the future of endangered animals
Cloning Wild Life presents a largely sociological account of endangered species cloning practices laced with narratives from the author's research. This research included interviews with…
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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