Sex & Bugs & Rock 'n Roll - getting creative about public engagement

Emma J. Sayer; Helen C. Featherstone; William D. Gosling; Frazer Bird-Matthews; Sarah C. Pierce; Matthew S. Heard; Hannah Griffiths; Tom Walker; Iain J. Gould; Catherine Baxendale; Peter Fawdon; Leanne Gunn; Kate Salmon; Sophie Dixon; Holly Rogers; Alexe Rose; Sarah Dalesman; Thea Powell

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2013.12.008

Sex & Bugs & Rock 'n Roll - getting creative about public engagement

Emma J. Sayer^*, Helen C. Featherstone, William D. Gosling, Frazer Bird-Matthews, Sarah C. Pierce, Matthew S. Heard, Hannah Griffiths, Tom Walker, Iain J. Gould, Catherine Baxendale, Peter Fawdon, Leanne Gunn, Kate Salmon, Sophie Dixon, Holly Rogers, Alexe Rose, Sarah Dalesman, Thea Powell

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Public engagement is widely recognized as a key priority for achieving societal support for research. We spotlight creativity in public engagement as a way of reaching wider audiences and incentivising researcher involvement, demonstrating some of the possibilities with a recent initiative to engage the public with ecology at music festivals.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	65-67
Number of pages	3
Journal	Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Volume	29
Issue number	2
Early online date	30 Dec 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2013.12.008
Publication status	Published - 01 Feb 2014

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Biological Evolution
Social Marketing
Community Participation/trends
Ecology/trends
Research/trends

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Sayer, E. J., Featherstone, H. C., Gosling, W. D., Bird-Matthews, F., Pierce, S. C., Heard, M. S., Griffiths, H., Walker, T., Gould, I. J., Baxendale, C., Fawdon, P., Gunn, L., Salmon, K., Dixon, S., Rogers, H., Rose, A., Dalesman, S., & Powell, T. (2014). Sex & Bugs & Rock 'n Roll - getting creative about public engagement. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 29(2), 65-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2013.12.008

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