Polar Research in public discourse – setting the stage

Summary: Polar Research gained bigger than ever extent and support, both on the state-political and the wide public level. We want to start the discussion on how the public concern is formed, and what are the inspirations that drive researchers to choose this type of career. It seems that in the non...

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Published in:Oceanologia
Main Author: Jan Marcin Węsławski
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020
Subjects:
Polar Research
Public understanding of science
Science communication
Oceanography
GC1-1581
Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2020.03.002
https://doaj.org/article/6eaf8f871e6e4a63b754ee4f8317e779
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Summary:Summary: Polar Research gained bigger than ever extent and support, both on the state-political and the wide public level. We want to start the discussion on how the public concern is formed, and what are the inspirations that drive researchers to choose this type of career. It seems that in the non-Arctic country like Poland the sentiment, associated with the historical polar events together with widely accessible and attractive documentary films, was essential in shaping the societal support for spending public money on polar studies.

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