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Scientists' conceptions of the boundaries between their own research and policy

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This paper explores qualitative research that aimed to understand how scientists encounter the science-policy boundary in the ordinary course of doing their research. In interviews, scientists sometimes referred to institutions whose role it is to stabilize the relationship between science and policy — boundary organizations as Guston (1999) has called them. Individual scientists, however, often engage in their own versions of ‘boundary work’ between science and policy. The paper suggests that it may be useful to explore the implications of this more individualized, less institutionalized boundary work to understand better the shifting identity of contemporary science. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Claire Waterton, 2005. "Scientists' conceptions of the boundaries between their own research and policy," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 32(6), pages 435-444, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:32:y:2005:i:6:p:435-444
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    1. Jackson, Lee Ann & Jansen, Marion, 2009. "Risk assessment in the international food safety policy arena: Can the multilateral institutions encourage unbiased outcomes?," WTO Staff Working Papers ERSD-2009-01, World Trade Organization (WTO), Economic Research and Statistics Division.
    2. Jackson, Lee Ann & Jansen, Marion, 2010. "Risk assessment in the international food safety policy arena. Can the multilateral institutions encourage unbiased outcomes?," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 35(6), pages 538-547, December.
    3. Lam, Alice, 2009. "From ‘ivory tower traditionalists’ to ‘entrepreneurial scientists’? academic scientists in fuzzy university-industry boundaries," MPRA Paper 30857, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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