Special Issue - 21st Century Society

21st Century Society
Special Issue on Developing Dialogue: Learned Societies in the Social Sciences: Developing Knowledge Transfer and Public Engagement

Developing Dialogue: Learned Societies in the Social Sciences: Developing Knowledge Transfer and Public Engagement focuses on exploring the potential for greater engagement between the learned societies and policy makers, practitioners and the wider public. The objectives include identifying current activities, flagging up opportunities for more knowledge transfer and public engagement work, and increasing awareness of the issues and opportunities amongst the learned societies.

The project was undertaken between August 2007 and Spring 2008, involving a mix of document and website reviews, and surveys, interviews and discussions with learned societies' representatives and policy-makers across the social sciences. The study had five objectives:

To improve the knowledge and understanding of social science learned societies' current activities in knowledge transfer (KT) and public engagement (PE);
To identify opportunities for more or different KT and PE work;
To increase awareness among learned societies of the strategic aims of the ESRC and support, and to highlight funding opportunities for knowledge transfer and public engagement work;
To propose how such work might be resourced, organised and promoted;
To foster engagement between the ESRC, AcSS and learned societies in the social sciences.

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