Stories
- Article
Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
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People against pollution
Alice Bell reflects on what happens when communities help solve environmental problems, and whether citizen science can help fight industrial pollution today.
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Bringing biotech to the people
Amateur scientists have inspired all kinds of frightening scenarios, from Frankenstein’s monster to ‘The Fly’ and ‘Breaking Bad’. But it can be a force for good. Today’s DIYbio enthusiasts are having fun – and even making lucrative breakthrough discoveries.
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
Catalogue
- Journals
Annual report / Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology.
University of Manchester. Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology.- Books
Feedback on Foresight : results of consultations on the approach to UK Technology Foresight / [produced by] Segal Quince Wicksteed Limited [and] Programme for Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology.
Date: 1994- Books
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Returns to research and development spending : a paper / by the Office of Science and Technology and the Programme for Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology at Manchester University.
Great Britain. Office of Science and Technology.Date: 1993- Books
The Management of technological collaboration : an investigation ... carried out on behalf of the Centre for Exploitation of Science and Technology / by the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) of the University of Sussex.
Date: [1991], ©1991- Books
Co-nomination in foresight : report on the use of co-nomination to identify participants for the UK technology foresight programme / authors Luke Georghiou, Denis Loveridge, Maria Nedeva.
Georghiou, Luke.Date: 1994