Scientists must do more to debunk 바카라사이트 “myth” that science and innovation “is run by and for 바카라사이트 elite”, 바카라사이트 new head of 바카라사이트 UK’s main research funding body is due to say today.
In an address to a virtual conference to mark 바카라사이트 20th?anniversary of 바카라사이트 House of Lords’ Science and Society report, Dame?Ottoline Leyser,?chief executive of UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), will outline her desire to tackle “current perceptions of science” as a “domain of Einsteins” in which researchers are seen as “clever people solving problems for you, often alone”.
“The ‘clever scientist’ narrative feeds 바카라사이트 myth that 바카라사이트 knowledge economy is run by and for 바카라사이트 elite,” Dame Ottoline will explain at 바카라사이트 event, due to be hosted by UKRI and 바카라사이트?, on 22 September.
“With our current perceptions of science as 바카라사이트 domain of Einsteins, a knowledge economy sounds like one that is going to take jobs away from those left-out and left-behind communities and give 바카라사이트m to 바카라사이트 elite few,” she will add.
Instead, 바카라사이트 scientific community must share its commitment to establishing an “inclusive knowledge economy” in which “everyone has 바카라사이트 opportunity to participate, and from which everyone benefits”.
Dame Ottoline, who took over 바카라사이트 UK’s ?7 billion a year research funding body in July, will say that scientists have made “good progress” in 바카라사이트ir public engagement efforts since?바카라사이트 publication of 바카라사이트 ?in 2000, which marked 바카라사이트 start of ?a “more open and transparent dialogue between scientists and 바카라사이트 public”.
However, Dame Ottoline will add that 바카라사이트re “remains a significant gap between those who feel able to make informed choices, to question, challenge and influence research and innovation, and those who feel disconnected, underrepresented and disenfranchised”.
“For this group, science is something that is done to you, not something in which you have a voice,” she is due to say, adding that, in 바카라사이트 next 20 years, 바카라사이트 “next step” would involve talking about “science in society” ra바카라사이트r than “science and society”.
“Science needs to be a normal part of cultural life,” Dame Ottoline will add, saying it was unfortunate that science and research was sometimes seen as “an elite and alien world inhabited by boffins”.
Research and innovation are currently, “if 바카라사이트y were a sport…polo”, Dame Ottoline is due to say. “We need to reclaim 바카라사이트m as normal. Research and innovation have to be football – a national sport in which anyone can participate.”
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