Reviewing draft REF impact case studies
In the lead up to the deadline for REF2021, I worked as a consultant reviewing draft impact case studies that had been written by university teams, providing a predicted score and guidance for improvement.
In the lead up to the deadline for REF2021, I worked as a consultant reviewing draft impact case studies that had been written by university teams, providing a predicted score and guidance for improvement.
Sunlight and vitamin D REF impact case study
In 2019, I worked with Professor Ann Webb at University of Manchester to develop an impact case study for her research on sunlight and vitamin D. The case study was rated 4* (the highest possible) by the REF2021 panel. Professor Webb and I also published a policy briefing and undertook research into public knowledge and attitudes in this area.
Public attitudes research paper in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Public Attitudes to Science
In 2018, I worked with Kantar Public on the latest round of UK Public attitudes to Science research (funded by BEIS). In particular, I wrote a major international literature review on this topic and contributed in a more minor way to the development of the new research.
Factors affecting public engagement by researchers
In 2015-2016, I worked with TNS-BMRB (now Kantar Public) on the 'Factors affecting public engagement by researchers' project. This consultancy project (2015-6), funded by a consortium of UK research funders, led by Wellcome Trust, focused on the perspectives and experiences of researchers (across all academic disciplines) with respect to public engagement with research.
Public Attitudes to Science
In 2018, I worked with Kantar Public on the latest round of UK Public attitudes to Science research (funded by BEIS). In particular, I wrote a major international literature review on this topic and contributed in a more minor way to the development of the new research.
Factors affecting public engagement by researchers
In 2015-2016, I worked with TNS-BMRB (now Kantar Public) on the 'Factors affecting public engagement by researchers' project. This consultancy project (2015-6), funded by a consortium of UK research funders, led by Wellcome Trust, focused on the perspectives and experiences of researchers (across all academic disciplines) with respect to public engagement with research.
Full Report (TNS-BMRB/Burchell, 2015)
Literature review (Burchell, 2015)
Paper in Research for All (Burchell, Sheppard and Chambers, 2017)
LSE Impact Blog (Burchell, Sheppard and Chambers, 2018)
Talking to crop geneticists about science, crop genetics, the public and the media (PhD: 1999-2005, part time)
In my PhD, I examined - qualitatively - the attitudes of scientists working on crop genetics towards: science itself, crop genetics, the public and the media. I published two journal articles from my PhD:
Public attitudes towards risk
In my Masters dissertation (1998), I examined - using a questionnaire survey - public perceptions of a variety of environmental/technological risks. To reflect the extent to which perceptions vary and the conflict that this can cause, I coined the phrase 'fractured environments' (which the excellent Phil Mcnaghten termed 'contested natures'). I wrote a working paper on this, which is still on the LSE website!
ScoPE: Scientists on public engagement - from communication to deliberation?
Some years earlier, I conducted one of the first projects that had examined researchers' perspectives on public engagement, in the Wellcome Trust-funded ScoPE project Scientists on public engagement: from communication to engagement (2006-2009). While acknowledging a 'sea change' in scientist's views, this report also noted a set of sometimes contradictory undercurrents in the emerging field of public engagement.
The roles of social science in public dialogue on science and technology
In 2008, I was funded by the HEFCE Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) to conduct some exploratory research and hold a stakeholder workshop on the role of social science in public dialogue. From this work, I produced a workshop report and a paper. A key observation in both is that policy people tend to see a supporting role only for social science, but do not value its more critical potential.
Workshop report
Paper: A helping hand or a servant discipline?
Workshop report
Paper: A helping hand or a servant discipline?
Talking to crop geneticists about science, crop genetics, the public and the media (PhD: 1999-2005, part time)
In my PhD, I examined - qualitatively - the attitudes of scientists working on crop genetics towards: science itself, crop genetics, the public and the media. I published two journal articles from my PhD:
- Burchell, K. (2007) Empiricist selves and contingent ‘others’: the performative function of the discourse of scientists working in conditions of controversy, Public Understanding of Science, 16(2), 145-162.
- Burchell, K. (2007) Boundary work, associative argumentation and switching in the advocacy of agricultural biotechnology, Science as Culture, 16(1), 49-70.
In my Masters dissertation (1998), I examined - using a questionnaire survey - public perceptions of a variety of environmental/technological risks. To reflect the extent to which perceptions vary and the conflict that this can cause, I coined the phrase 'fractured environments' (which the excellent Phil Mcnaghten termed 'contested natures'). I wrote a working paper on this, which is still on the LSE website!
Contact: kevinwburchell@gmail.com
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