Speakers will include the Guardian's music editor Caspar Llewellyn Smith on what comes next for the music business and John Naughton, the Observer's technology columnist and Open University professor of the public understanding of technology, on technology and identity.
The 1998 Northern Ireland Life & Times survey (NILT), an annual social attitudes study, included a module on public understanding of science (ARK 1999), of which only one item pertained to evolution.
A previous study on public understanding of research in Sri Lanka provided us with additional insight on how our work may be perceived by potential participants [ 17].
Disappointed with his perceived lack of impact on public understanding of global progress, the self-styled "edutainer" is now turning his attention towards teachers.
"Climate uncertainties and their discontents: increasing the impact of assessments on public understanding of climate risks and choices" is by a trio of scientists who are also public advocates for action on greenhouse gases.
Soulforce's executive director, the Rev. Mel White, said the Catholic Church in the United States, with more than 60 million members, had a greater impact on public understanding of issues related to gay rights than any of its Protestant counterparts.
Days after the unnecessary secrecy around STP blueprints for change predictably backfired, with lurid headlines about closures and cuts, both NHS England and the government have been trying to get a grip on public understanding of what all this frantic management work is trying to achieve.
Using Climategate and the juvenile theatrics of a handful of Republican politicians as fuel, climate deniers have waged a fierce media campaign to confuse the public in recent months, an effort that poll results in the U.S. indicate had a negative impact on public understanding of climate change and recognition of the urgent need to address it. .
In recent reviews of research on public understanding of climate change, Weber and Stern (2011) and others (Kahan, Jenkins-Smith, & Braman, 2011; Leiserowitz, 2006; McCright & Dunlap, 2011b) highlight a number of factors that explain variance in U.S. public perspectives on the issue.
"This will have a negative impact on the public understanding of science and the quality of the public discourse on some of the most important and contentious issues of our times," it states.
