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Gjersoe, Nathalia L. and Hood, Bruce
(2013).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080928
URL: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.137...
Abstract
Demonstrating the impact of public engagement is an increasingly important activity for today’s academics and researchers. The difficulty is that many areas of interest do not lend themselves well to evaluation because the impact of each single intervention can be hard to trace and take time to become manifest. With this in mind, we evaluated a lecture based around the 2011 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, ”Meet Your Brain,” delivered to school children from low performing schools. We compared knowledge about four neuroscience facts one week before, one week after and six weeks after the lecture. Analysis revealed significant knowledge transfer one week after the lecture that was retained five weeks later. We conclude that public engagement through tailored lectures can have significant impact in the moderate term with the potential to leave a lasting impression over a longer period.
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- Item ORO ID
- 41527
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Widening Participation Project Not Set University of Bristol 2011 Christmas Lectures Not Set Royal Institution of Science - Keywords
- public science engagement; children; brain; psychology
- Academic Unit or School
- Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
- Research Group
- Childhood and Youth
- Copyright Holders
- © 2013 Gjersoe, Hood
- Depositing User
- Nathalia Gjersoe