PCST 2012

PCST NETWORK

Public communication of science and technology is critical in a world thoroughly interwoven with science and technology. The International Network on Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) is a network of individuals from around the world who are active in producing and studying PCST.

The PCST Network includes:

• Science journalists.
• Science museum and science center staff.
• Science theatre directors.
• Academic researchers who study aspects of PCST.
• Scientists who deal with the public.
• Public information officers for scientific institutions.
• Many others interested in these issues.
  
  

The PCST Network sponsors international conferences, electronic discussions, and other activities to foster dialogue among the different groups of people interested in PCST, leading to cross-fertilization across professional, cultural, international, and disciplinary boundaries.
The PCST Network seeks to promote new ideas, methods, intellectual and practical questions, and perspectives.

 

• To foster public communication of science and technology (PCST).
  
• To encourage discussion of practices, methods, ethical issues, policies, conceptual frameworks, economic and social concerns, and other issues related to PCST.
  
• To link practitioners of PCST, researchers who study PCST, and scientific communities concerned with PCST.
  
• To link those from different cultures and countries worldwide, in both developed and developing parts of the world, concerned with PCST.
  
• To provide opportunities for meetings, electronic interactions
  
  

GASCOIGNE, Toss
Consultant, Canberra (Australia)

TRENCH, Brian
Dublin City University, Dublin (Ireland)

CLAESSENS, Michel
ITER, St.Paul-lez-Durance (France)

METCALFE, Jennifer
E-connect Science Communication Consultants, Brisbane (Australia)

BORCHELT, Rick
Genetics & Public Policy Center, Johns Hopkins University, Bethesda, MD (USA)

BROSSARD, Dominique
Department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (USA)

BUCCHI, Massimiano
University of Trento, Trento (Italy)

CHENG, Donghong
Chinese Association of Science and Technology, Beijing (China)

CHO, Sook-Kyoung
Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science & Creativity, Seoul (South Korea)

DE CHEVEIGNE, Suzanne
CNRS, Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille (France)

DE SEMIR, Vladimir
Science Communication Observatory - Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (Spain)

FOG, Lisbeth
Colombian Association of Science Journalism, Bogota (Colombia)

JOUBERT, Marina
Southern Science and University of Pretoria, Pretoria (South Africa)

KIM, Hak Soo
Sogang University, Seoul (South Korea)

KOULAIDIS, Vasilis
University of Peloponnese, Athens, Tripolis (Greece)

MASSARANI, Luisa
Fiocruz/Museum of Life, Rio de Jainero (Brazil)

MILLER, Steve
University College of London, London (United Kingdom)

PATAIRIYA, Manoj
National Council for Science & Technology Communication, New Delhi (India)

PETERS, Hans Peter
Research Center Juelich, Jülich (Germany)

PLEASANT, Andrew
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ (USA)

PUPATWIBUL, Kunungnit
Naresuan University, Phitsanulok (Thailand)

RIISE, Jan
Göteborg University Sociology, Göteborg (Sweden)

SCHIELE, Bernard
University of Quebec, Montreal (Canada)

TAGÜEÑA, Julia
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelos (México)

WATANABE, Masataka
Departament of Public Understanding of Science & Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo (Japan)