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23 - What to Do When You Don’t Know What You’re Doing; Or, My First Twenty-Five Years in Science Communication

from Part VI - Science Communication, Teaching, Ethics and Environmentalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2017

By
John Durant
Edited by
David J. Bennett  and
Richard C. Jennings
David J. Bennett
Affiliation:
St Edmund's College, Cambridge
Richard C. Jennings
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Successful Careers beyond the Lab , pp. 267 - 280
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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Durant, J., Evans, G. & Thomas, G. P., ‘The Public Understanding of Science’, Nature 340 (6 July 1989), pp. 11–14.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Joss, Simon and Durant, John (Eds.), Public Participation in Science: The Role of Consensus Conferences in Europe, Science Museum, London, with the support of the European Commission Directorate General XII, London, 1995.Google Scholar

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