Publications & Reports

Looking to learn more about public engagement and science communication? Check out some of the articles below.

• Peterman, K., Garlick, S., Besley, J., Allen, S., Fallon Lambert, K., Nadkarni, N. M., Rosin, M. S., Weber, C., Weiss, M., & Wong, J. 2021. Boundary Spanners and thinking partners: Adapting and expanding the research-practice partnership literature for public engagement with science (PES). Journal of Science Communication, 20, 7. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.20070801
• Weber, C, Allen, S, & N. Nadkarni. 2021. Scaling training to support scientists to engage with the public in non-traditional venues. Journal of Science Communication, preprint.
• Logan, A.C.; Nadkarni, N.M. Tapestry Thinking: An Interview with Dr. Nalini Nadkarni on an Unexpected Life in Science. Challenges 2022, 13, 61. https://doi.org/10.3390/challe13020061
• American Academy of Sciences. 2018. Perceptions of science in America. (13 September 2018; www.amacad.org/multimedia/pdfs/publications/researchpapersmonographs/PFoS-Perceptions/PFoS-Perceptions-Science-America.pdf).
• Besley J, Dudo A, Yuan S. 2017. Scientists’ views about communication objectives. Public Understanding of Science:1–23.
• Canfield, K. & Menezes, S. 2020. The State of Inclusive Science Communication: A Landscape Study. Metcalf Institute, University of Rhode Island. Kingston, RI. 77 pp. https://inclusivescicomm.org/files/State-of-Inclusive-SciComm-2020-2.pdf
• Cohen GL, Aronson J, Steele CM. 2000. When beliefs yield to evidence: Reducing biased evaluation by affirming the self. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 26:1151–1164.
• Dawson E. 2014. Reframing social exclusion from science communication: Moving away from “barriers” towards a more complex perspective. Journal of Science Communication 13.
• Dawson E. 2018. Reimagining publics and (non)participation: Exploring exclusion from science communication through the experiences of low-income, minority ethnic groups. Public Understanding of Science Theoretical/ research paper.
• Falk J, Dierking L. 2012. The Personal Context: Identity-related motivations. Pages 37–63 in The Museum Experience Revisited. Routledge.
• Goldman S. 2017. Design Thinking. in K. Peppler, ed. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Out-of-School Learning. Sage Publishing.
• Kahan D. 2010. Fixing the communications failure. Nature 463: 296-297.
• Kahan D. 2015. Climate-science communication and the measurement problem. Political Psychology 36:1–43.
• Leshner AI. 2007. Outreach training needed. Science 315:161.
• Nadkarni, N., Weber, C., Goldman, S., Schatz, D., Allen, S., Menlove, R. 2019. Beyond the Deficit Model: The Ambassador Approach to Public Engagement. Bioscience 69: 305-313.
• Nadkarni NM. 2004. Not preaching to the choir: Communicating the importance of forest conservation to nontraditional audiences. Conservation Biology 18: 602-606.
• Nadkarni NM. 2007. Ecological outreach to faith-based communities. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5: 332-333.
• National Alliance for Broader Impacts. 2018. The Current State of Broader Impacts: Advancing Science and Benefiting Society.
• Pew Research Center. 2009. Public praises science: scientists fault public, media. (13 September 2018; http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/legacy-pdf/528.pdf).
• Risien J, Storksdieck M. 2018. Unveiling Impact Identities: A Path for Connecting Science and Society. Integrative and Comparative Biology 58:58–66.
• Selvakumar, M., and M. Storksdieck. 2013. Portal to the Public: Museum educators collaborating with scientists to engage museum visitors with current science. Curator: The Museum Journal 56:69–78.
• Sturgis P, Allum N. 2004. Science in society: Re-evaluating the deficit model of public attitudes. Public Understanding of Science 13: 55–74.
• Ulrich C, Nadkarni NM. 2009. Sustainability research and practices in enforced residential institutions: Collaborations of ecologists and prisoners. Environment, Development and Sustainability 11: 815–832.