Reuben College, University of Oxford, Reuben College, OX1 3QP, Oxford, UK.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Dunn School, OX1 3RE, Oxford, UK.
Biol Open. 2024 Mar 1;13(3). doi: 10.1242/bio.060108. Epub 2024 Mar 25.
Public engagement projects developed by university-based academics tend to focus on specific academic topics. Yet, the problems and topics that our audiences want to engage with are broad, challenging, and can't be explained or solved by a single academic subject or expertise. In this article, we capitalise on our experience working with academics at the University of Oxford, and a workshop for public engagement professionals that we co-organised with the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement, to advocate for a novel approach: interdisciplinary public engagement (public engagement projects that bring together academics from several academic disciplines). We consider the potential benefits and the challenges of this approach and provide examples of how it is starting to be explored.
由高校学者主导的公众参与项目往往专注于特定的学术主题。然而，我们的受众希望参与的问题和主题广泛而具有挑战性，不是一个单一的学术学科或专业知识就可以解释或解决的。在本文中，我们借鉴了在牛津大学与学者合作的经验，以及我们与国家公众参与协调中心共同组织的一次针对公众参与专业人士的研讨会，倡导一种新的方法：跨学科公众参与（将来自多个学术学科的学者聚集在一起的公众参与项目）。我们考虑了这种方法的潜在好处和挑战，并提供了一些如何开始探索这种方法的例子。
