Prof. Eric Jensen
CEO and Research Director
Prof. Eric Jensen
CEO and Research Director
Books
Articles
Chapters
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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
Zoos boost biodiversity literacy
Zoos and aquaria worldwide attract more than 700 million visits every year. They are therefore well placed to make more people aware of the importance…
Evaluating Children’s Conservation Biology Learning at the Zoo
Millions of children visit zoos every year with parents or schools to encounter wildlife firsthand. Public conservation education is a requirement for membership in professional…
The problems with science communication evaluation
Even in the best-resourced science communication institutions, poor quality evaluation methods are routinely employed. This leads to questionable data, specious conclusions and stunted growth in…
Why people attend science festivals: Interests, motivations and self-reported benefits of public engagement with research
As a form of public engagement, science festivals have rapidly expanded in size and number over recent years. However, as with other domains of informal…
Re-considering ‘The Love of Art’: Evaluating the potential of art museum outreach
Art museums have long been identified as bastions of social and cultural exclusion. This conclusion was best evidenced by the large-scale 1967 French study by…
Scientific sensationalism in American and British press coverage of therapeutic cloning
This study examines the production and content of press coverage of therapeutic cloning in the United States and Britain. The sample includes 5,128 news articles,…
Mediating subpolitics in US and UK science news
The development of therapeutic cloning research sparked a scientific controversy pitting patients’ hopes for cures against religious and anti-abortion opposition. The present study investigates this…
Towards a ‘contextual turn’ in visitor research: Evaluating visitor segmentation and identity-related motivations
This article assesses the use of audience segmentation in visitor studies by analyzing its application in the identity model of visitors proposed by J. Falk…
Dialogue and synthesis: Developing consensus in visitor research methodology
This brief synthesis presents the main points of agreement between Dawson and Jensen's article, “‘Towards a ‘Contextual Turn’ in Visitor Studies: Evaluating Visitor Segmentation and…
Evaluate impact of communication
Effective communication between scientists and non-scientists calls for special evaluation and training procedures, not simply “more and better science” (Nature 468, 1032–1033; 2010). The impact of…
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)
Linking policy and practice in monitoring socially responsible research and innovation (RRI): A conceptual framework to evaluate progress through the UNESCO-led Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers
This paper sets out a high-level conceptual framework for monitoring the development of socially responsible research and innovation (RRI) systems linked to the global policy…
Introducing cinematic scientific visualization: A new frontier in science communication
With rapid advances in science, data processing, and computer graphics technologies, the line between representations of “real science” and “Hollywood science” is blurring. The film…
South African scientists explain why they make time for science festivals
Science festivals across the world attract millions of visitors every year. They are typically busy, buzzing events: visitors stroll through interactive displays, enjoy science-themed shows…
Has the pandemic changed public attitudes about science?
The article explores how public attitudes toward science and scientists have evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic, as experts and evidence-based approaches took center stage in…
Science in Ireland Barometer 2020 National Survey of Public Attitudes about Science
In 2019, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) commissioned Qualia Analytics to run the 2020 wave of its public science attitudes survey, the SFI Science in Ireland…
State of the Art of RRI in the Five UNESCO World Regions
The overall project aim is to bring RRI into the linked up global world to promote mutual learning and collaboration in RRI. This will be…
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…
The UNESCO Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers will transform working conditions, rights and responsibilities of researchers globally
While national science and innovation public policy is often in flux, truly global science policy initiatives are rare. Such a global initiative gained acceptance in…
For science communication to be effective it should be evidence based
At its best, science communication can empower research and innovation systems to address global challenges. It does this by improving the relationships with stakeholders in…
Mapping of funding for digital projects and skills
Jensen, A. M., Jensen, E. A. & Romain, S. (2017). Mapping of funding for digital projects and skills. Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS):…
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