Company news...
02 July 2010
PSP is working with the Institute of Physics (IOP) to evaluate the impact of a pilot STEM enhancement and enrichment programme aimed at getting more young people
from Black and ethnic minority groups to study physics at ‘A’ level and beyond. The project is based in a south London school and PSP is designing the evaluation and
will be analysing the findings.
28 June 2010
Tara Webster, Project Manager, has been awarded her Diploma in Plain English. The cornerstone of her final assessment was a guide for PSP on questionnaire writing, the collation of a bank of validated questions and an up-dating of the section in the company manual on designing, launch and managing on-line surveys. She was awarded a grade ‘A’ for this assignment.
18 June 2010
PSP celebrated 10 years in business on Thursday 17 June at the Wellington Arch with some 50 or so clients and friends.
01 June 2010
Suzanne King has joined the editorial committee of People and Science, the magazine of the British Science Association.
2009
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.