Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Authors' biographies
- Introduction Public engagement in an evolving science policy landscape
- Part I What it helps to know beforehand
- Part II Policy-makers, the media and public interest organisations
- 8 Research and public communication in EU policy and practice
- 9 Tackling the climate communication challenge
- 10 Dealings with the media
- 11 Dealings with the U.S. media
- 12 Relations with public interest organisations: consumers
- 13 Relations with public interest organisations: patients and families
- 14 Relations with environmental organisations: a very personal story
- Part III What you can do and how to do it
- Part IV And finally, evaluating and embedding science communication
- Index
- Plate section
- References
12 - Relations with public interest organisations: consumers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Authors' biographies
- Introduction Public engagement in an evolving science policy landscape
- Part I What it helps to know beforehand
- Part II Policy-makers, the media and public interest organisations
- 8 Research and public communication in EU policy and practice
- 9 Tackling the climate communication challenge
- 10 Dealings with the media
- 11 Dealings with the U.S. media
- 12 Relations with public interest organisations: consumers
- 13 Relations with public interest organisations: patients and families
- 14 Relations with environmental organisations: a very personal story
- Part III What you can do and how to do it
- Part IV And finally, evaluating and embedding science communication
- Index
- Plate section
- References
Summary
Introduction
Consumer organisations act as an important interface between the public and scientific developments and innovations. Our independent approach helps people to assess the implications of developments in a clear and simple way. Surveys have regularly put consumer organisations, along with other public interest organisations, among the most trusted sources of information and advice.
We therefore have an important role in communicating scientific issues and their implications to the public, as well as acting on their behalf in order to try and influence scientific and technological developments and the controls that oversee them in the consumer interest.
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- Information
- Successful Science CommunicationTelling It Like It Is, pp. 182 - 195Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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