News from the last year
The last year has seen PSP expand, taking on Richard Greenberg from Opinion Leader and Sarah Frost to help with our diverse range of projects.
In the last year our public engagement work has included a public dialogue on synthetic biology for the Royal Academy of Engineering and securing a place on the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s public engagement framework. We’ve also evaluated dialogue activities, looking at the impact of EPSRC’s public dialogue to support the Grand Challenge on Nanotechnology for Health and securing a place on the COI’s (Central Office of Information) evaluation of public dialogue roster.
We have been contracted to undertake quite a lot of programme evaluation by a variety of organisations, including the Royal Society, the British Academy, the research councils and the Wellcome Trust.
Our strategy and policy work has included commissions to support the Working Group looking at Research Integrity in the UK and the development of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ Science and Society strategy.
The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera, part of Defra) has commissioned PSP to undertake research with beekeepers – especially amateur keepers – so if you keep bees, particularly if you’ve been doing so for less that two years, please click here www.pspq/beestudy and register for the survey.