天文学家如何感知研究的社会影响:一项探索性研究
How Astronomers Perceive the Societal Impact of Research: An Exploratory Study
摘要:
我们提出了一个探索性的研究,专业天文学家对天文学的社会影响的看法。我们对来自不同职业和文化背景的天文学家进行了10次半结构化的访谈,深入了解他们对社会影响的看法以及他们实现社会影响的方法。结果表明,受访者意识到天文学研究的影响的多样性。然而,他们大多积极参与外联活动,只有少数活动被纳入他们的工作,以实现对发展的影响。与工业、政策或发展等其他领域的利益攸关方的接触很少。此外,在他们的个人外联方面缺乏一种结构化的方法,评估只是非正式地进行。尽管这项研究的样本量有限,但结果表明,有必要做出进一步的改变,让专业天文学家参与发展和社会影响的主题,以在个人研究人员层面采取行动。
英文摘要:
We present an exploratory study of the perception of professional astronomers about the societal impact of astronomy. Ten semi-structured interviews with astronomers from a range of career and cultural backgrounds have been conducted to gain in-depth insight into their opinion about societal impact and their approach in realising it. The results show that the interviewees are aware of the diversity of impacts that astronomical research has. However, they are mostly active in outreach and only a few activities are incorporated into their jobs to achieve an impact on development. There is little contact with stakeholders in industry, policy or other fields, like development. Besides, a structured approach in their personal outreach is lacking, and assessment is only done informally. Despite the limited sample size of this study, the results indicate that a further change is necessary to engage professional astronomers with topics of development and societal impact to create action on the level of individual researchers.
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