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Author Archives: Allan Jones

‘Science in the making’: the BBC’s first engagement with engagement?

Posted on Friday, 12 September 2014 by Allan Jones

Allan Jones, The Open University

In spring 1931, the BBC transmitted six weekly radio programmes, under the title Science in the Making, as part of its adult education provision.

Each week a different scientist outlined his area of research, and in five cases invited listeners to report their observations of phenomena described in the programme.

Topics included the factors affecting the start of breeding season of birds, the advance of the grey squirrel in Britain, the perception of sound, and the pervasiveness of certain types of dream.

Science in the Making was thus an early venture into ‘citizen science’ and one broadcast led to an academic-journal article. This presentation gives the story of Science in the Making, and looks at a second series the following year that concentrated on social science.

Allan Jones is a Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Communications, part of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computing & Technology in the Open University.

Posted in Presentations, Projects | Tagged citizen science, public engagement, Public engagement with research, radio, scientific citizenship

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