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Conclusion
from Stage 3 - After World War Two
Robert Bud, Science Museum, London
Book:

Applied Science

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15 March 2024

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28 March 2024, pp 255-262
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Government policies, stories, and institutions lie at the heart of the argument. Widely embodying the term ‘applied science’, they made it visible and real. They have also been sites of interplay between organisational and professional promotion and public discourse about Britain’s prospects. Summarising the book, this chapter reflects on the continuity between the nineteenth-century emphasis on pedagogy and the twentieth-century focus on research. It suggests that because the meaning of applied science is rooted in national debate and experience, it differed from terms growing out of other national experiences, such as the German Technik. Its trajectory in other English-speaking countries should also be studied individually. The imperial experience meant the term may have been transformed as it travelled. In sum, its meaning was not the work of just a few intellectuals. Instead, the character of applied science developed through the complexities of history and widespread public debate.

Creating an amateur press corps of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to cover breaking science and improve lay-writing skills
Kimberly McGhee, Tammy Loucks, Sheila Champlin, Matthew Greseth, Paula Traktman
Journal:

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science / Volume 5 / Issue 1 / 2021

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30 July 2021, e150
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The Science Writing Initiative for Trainees is a science communications internship program for biomedical graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the Medical University of South Carolina. Interns serve as an amateur press corps, writing news stories and press releases about recent high-impact research articles. Since 2016, 25 interns have written more than 100 EurekAlert! press releases that have received more than a half million views. Interns learn to explain science across the translational spectrum and to convey findings in plain language to a lay audience, serving as ambassadors for science.

Methods of Self-aid and Mutual-aid of the Injured in Earthquake and Points for Attention
Jiren Gao, Guiling Zhong
Journal:

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine / Volume 15 / Issue S2 / September 2000

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28 June 2012, p. S93

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September 2000
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