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      Public engagement with research: Citizens’ views on motivations, barriers and support

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          Responsible research and innovation (RRI) approaches that have emerged in the past ten years point to the importance of engaging the public in dialogues about research. The different variants of RRI share the notion that societal actors, including citizens, need to work together – that is, engage in two-way communication during the research and innovation process – in order to better align both the process and its outcomes with the values, needs and expectations of society. Yet, sponsors and organizers of dialogues about research often face difficulties in recruiting sufficient numbers of participants or ensuring a sufficient level of diversity of participants. This paper asks what motivates or hinders individual citizens as members of the broader public to participate in such dialogues. It presents empirical findings of the European Union-funded project Promoting Societal Engagement Under the Terms of RRI (PROSO), which aimed to foster public engagement with research for RRI. PROSO used a quasi-experimental, qualitative approach directly involving citizens to address this question. The core of the innovative methodology were focus group discussions with European citizens about hypothetical opportunities to take part in dialogues about research. Three hypothetical scenarios of different dialogue formats (varied by whether they seek to inform the participants, consult or enable deeper collaboration on a scientific issue) were used as stimuli to explore the participants’ willingness (motivations and perceived barriers) to engage with scientific research. Our findings show a preference towards dialogue formats that give citizens a more active role and a greater say in research policy or research funding. They further suggest that those who seek to broaden citizen participation in dialogues about research should consider the role of relevance, impact, trust, legitimacy, knowledge, and time and resources as factors that can motivate or discourage citizens to take part. Based on our findings, we discuss possibilities to promote citizen participation in dialogues about research as part of putting RRI into practice.

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                Journal
                rfa
                Research for All
                UCL Press (UK )
                2399-8121
                21 September 2021
                : 5
                : 2
                : 302-319
                Affiliations
                [1]DIALOGIK, non-profit corporation for communication and cooperation research, Germany
                [2]University of Stuttgart, Germany
                [3]University of Klagenfurt, Austria
                [4]Applied Research and Communications Fund, Bulgaria
                [5]University of Surrey, UK
                Author notes
                *Corresponding author – email: dreyer@ 123456dialogik-expert.de
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8605-1826
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0853-2477
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2197-1925
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1795-1454
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9461-1771
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3154-0048
                Article
                10.14324/RFA.05.2.08
                dca3595f-d1d1-4607-97f7-c8cd0dd5fbb7
                Copyright © 2021 Dreyer, Kosow, Bauer, Chonkova, Kozarev and Timotijevic

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                : 14 August 2020
                : 12 January 2021
                Page count
                Figures: 1, Tables: 1, References: 38, Pages: 19

                Assessment, Evaluation & Research methods,Education & Public policy,Educational research & Statistics
                public engagement with research,responsible research and innovation,motivations for engagement,barriers to engagement,dialogues about research,citizen participation

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