Dr Anne-Floor Scholvinck

Rathenau Instituut, The Netherlands
 https://www.rathenau.nl/en/about-us/who-we-are/our-staff/annefloor-scholvinck

Dr. Anne-Floor Scholvinck is employed at the Rathenau Instituut (the Netherlands) as a senior researcher. She is an expert in the field of science and research policy, in particular Open Science and public engagement with science. She has (co-)authored several studies on Open Science with the Rathenau Instituut, and presented her work for a varied and international audience. Before she joined the institute, she conducted her PhD research on a related topic – patient involvement in health research.

In 2020-2021, Anne-Floor was seconded to the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. As an Open Science expert, she contributed to drafting the global UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, which was adopted by its member states in November 2021.

 

Photo credit:  Laura Marienus, Rathenau Instituut

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All Sessions by Dr Anne-Floor Scholvinck

  • Day 1

    March 08, 2022 (CET)

  • 13:00  - 13:30
    Open Science is an attempt to make science contribute more to tackling major societal challenges. To achieve this grand ambition, public stakeholders and citizens should be involved with science in a meaningful way. We have examined 1) when public engagement can be considered meaningful and, 2) how it can be organised.

    Although there is not one optimal way to involve the public meaningfully, this does not mean that any public engagement is by definition meaningful. Our research culminates in the position that public involvement is meaningful when the (power) relationship between knowledge producers and stakeholders changes in favour of the latter. This means that for public engagement to be meaningful, its form must fit well with its aim; the purpose of engaging the public suggests who should be engaged, where, when, and how. Additionally, we present five directives to help policymakers and researchers design processes of meaningful public engagement.



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