The key readings were selected and analyzed. They focus on (i) public engagement with science that range from an understanding of how people make decisions to how to develop trust in science and (ii) understanding the underrepresentation of women in science and the value of enacting gender-inclusive practices in public engagement with science. The authors, type, data released, organization, purpose and aim, summary, an overview of the points relevant to the project, and evaluation were analyzed for each of the key readings.
Key-reading 1: Public Engagement for Net-Zero: A literature review
Authors | Martin King, Chandrima Padmanabhan, and Katie Rose |
Type | Literature review |
Data released | April 2021 |
Aim | An analysis of public engagement models on climate change that highlights how communication, collaboration and public engagement around climate interventions can be made more effective. This source covers the understanding of the factors causing distrust towards scientists and disengagement with science and climate action. Target audience: Both inexperienced and experienced professional science communicators can use this source as practical guidance. |
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Key-reading 2: Media and scientific communication: a case of climate change
Authors | Maxwell T. Boykoff |
Type | Theoretical paper |
Data released | January 2008 |
Aim | To demonstrate how science communication and the relationships of scientists, policy actors and the public affect the mass-media coverage of climate change. Target audience: Scientists, professional science communicators, and others with interest in science communication in mass media with a focus on climate change. Key-competences: This article will improve understanding of the factors causing distrust towards scientists and disengagement with science and climate action. It also aids in developing an understanding of how public engagement can benefit a scientist’s career. |
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Key-reading 3: Shifting public engagement: How media coverage of climate change conferences affects climate change audience segments
Authors | Wonneberger, A., Meijers, M.H.C., & Schuck, A.R.T. |
Type | Research paper |
Data released | February 2020 |
Aim | The aim is to research the climate change-related mobilization effects in the five identified segments of the Dutch population (Alarmed, Concerned, Cautious, Disengaged and Doubtful) in response to the media attention for the UN Climate Change Conference held in Paris in 2015 and the possible influences of this media attention on public opinion.
Target audience: Scientists and professional science communicators. Key-competences: This article will improve understanding the factors causing distrust towards scientists and disengagement with science and climate action. It also explains the theory of motivated reasoning and provides insight into the level of audience engagement with climate change within the identified audience segments. |
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Key-reading 4: People and power: Expanding the role and scale of public engagement in energy transitions
Authors | John H. Armstrong |
Type | Original research paper |
Data released | 11 June 2021 |
Aim | The paper explores the relation between science and technology studies (STS) and public engagement in issues related to energy and climate change. In particular, it assesses the limitations of primary STS perspectives and approaches to researching public engagement in energy transitions. Target audience: Although the paper focuses primarily in the general public and people’s role in energy transitions (especially transformative one), it suggests recommendations for researchers to adopt new approaches and avenues for the incorporation of holistic analysis of public engagement. Key-competences: this article improves readers’ understanding on how STS considers public role in leading and shaping energy transitions, for example addressing climate change globally. |
Weblink | https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2214629621002292 |
Key-reading 5: What is Public Engagement and How Does it Help to Address Climate Change?
Authors | Ville Kumpu |
Type | Original research paper |
Data released | 05 April 2022 |
Aim | The paper aimed to review ways public engagement helps address climate change, by focusing on the concept of communication. Target audience The target audience are scientists, science communicators, psychologists, and sociologists interested in exploring the relation between public engagement and public communication with climate change. Key-competences The paper improves readers’ understanding in the way communication is approached as a tool to address climate change. |
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Key-reading 6: Ten Thousand Voices on Marine Climate Change in Europe
Authors | Paul J. Buckley1, John K. Pinnegar1, 2, Suzanne J. Painting1, Geraldine Terry2, Jason Chilvers2, Irene Lorenzoni2, Stefan Gelcich3 and Carlos M. Duarte4 1 |
Type | Original research paper |
Data released | 11 July 2017 |
Aim | The paper aimed to examine the established levels of awareness, concern, and trust among different demographic groups and nationalities, regarding scientific understanding and management of impacts of climate change in the marine environment. Target audience: 10,000 European citizens from 10 countries. Key competences: the article aims to increase readers’ knowledge concerning varying perceptions of marine climate change among different EU citizens. |
Weblink | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00206/full |
Key-reading 7: Communicating Climate Change: Why Frames Matter for Public Engagement
Authors | Matthew C. Nisbet |
Type | Review |
Data released | 2009 |
Aim | The paper describes frames used for public engagement and historical development of these approaches. The paper helps to think about writing and oral skills needed to communicate science, mainly issues related to climate change. Moreover, it can improve understanding of the factors causing distrust towards scientists and disengagement with science and climate action. Target audience: scientists, science communicators Key competence: develop writing and oral skills needed to communicate science, mainly issues related to climate change; reflect critically on the social, historical, cultural and ethical dimensions of science. |
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Key-reading 8: Bridging the gap between science communication practice and theory: Reflecting on a decade of practitioner experience using polar outreach case studies to develop a new framework for public engagement design
Authors | Rhian A. Salmon, Heidi A. Roop |
Type | Research Article |
Data released | 2019 |
Aim | The paper proposes three foci for increasing the professionalization of practitioner approaches to Education, Outreach and Communication related to polar research. Target audience: scientists, science communicators. |
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Key-reading 9: Humour and sarcasm: expressions of global warming on Twitter
Authors | Hande Eslen-Ziya |
Type | Research Article |
Data released | 2022 |
Aim | The paper presents interesting analysis of tweets related to the climate change. Target audience: scientists, science communicators Key competence: develop writing and oral skills needed to communicate science, mainly issues related to climate change; reflect critically on the social, historical, cultural and ethical dimensions of science. |
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Key-reading 10: Public engagement with climate change: what do we know, and where do we go from here?
Authors | Lorraine Whitmarsh, Saffron O’Neill, Irene Lorenzoni |
Type | Theoretical |
Data released | March, 2013 |
Aim | The target audience of the paper are communicators lacking experience in science communication Key competence: Develop writing and oral skills needed to communicate science, mainly issues related to climate change and the gender gap in STEM, in various spaces (popular science magazines, newspapers, websites, social media, TV, radio, TEDx talks, science festivals etc.) |
Weblink | https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/mcp/2013/00000009/00000001/art00002 |
Key-reading 11: Net zero public engagement and participation
Authors | Christina Demski |
Type | Report |
Data released | March, 2021 |
Aim | The target audience of the paper are climate policy makers
Key competence: Develop writing and oral skills needed to communicate science, mainly issues related to climate change and the gender gap in STEM, in various spaces (popular science magazines, newspapers, websites, social media, TV, radio, TEDx talks, science festivals etc.) |
| https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/net-zero-public-engagement-and-participation |
Key-reading 12: Is it climate change? Coverage by online news sites of the 2019 European summer heatwaves in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK
Authors | James Painter, Joshua Ettinger, Marie‑Noëlle Doutreix, Nadine Strauß, Anke Wonneberger & Peter Walton |
Type | Research paper |
Data released | November 2021 |
Aim | The target audience of the paper are science communicators on climate change. Key competence: Develop writing and oral skills needed to communicate science, mainly issues related to climate change and the gender gap in STEM, in various spaces (popular science magazines, newspapers, websites, social media, TV, radio, TEDx talks, science festivals etc.) |
Weblink | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-021-03222-w |
Key-reading 13: Public engagement with climate change: the role of human values
Authors | Adam Corner, Ezra Markowitz, Nick Pidgeon |
Type | Review |
Data released | 2014 (may/june) |
Aim | Are there certain values on which public engagement with climate change is (or should be) predicated? The paper reviews the growing body of literature that explores the role of human values (and the closely related concept of cultural worldviews) in public engagement with climate change. Target audience: scientists. Key competences: Reflect critically on the social, historical, cultural and ethical dimensions of science. |
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Key-reading 14: Communication Practices and Political Engagement with Climate Change: A Research Agenda
Authors | Anabela Carvalho, Margit van Wessel & Pieter Maeseele |
Type | Review paper |
Data released | October 2016 |
Weblink | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17524032.2016.1241815?journalCode=renc20 |
Key-reading 15: Quantifying stakeholder learning in climate change adaptation across multiple relational and participatory networks
Authors | Jose Daniel Teodoro, Christina Prell, Laixiang Sun |
Type | Empirical paper |
Data released | October 2020 |
Weblink | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030147972031433X |
