Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe five key lessons learned from a decade of studying how scientists and science communicators think about communication strategy. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on the experience of the researcher and the underlying literatures on...

The current study seeks to demonstrate that a citizen views about public meeting structure and related groups matter in predicting satisfaction with public engagement and willingness to attend future meetings. Public health agencies frequently use public meetings to communicate risk information,...

Scholars have long lobbied for a view of risk communication that supplants a conventional 'transmission' model of risk communication with an alternative that considers the complex social environment that accompanies any risk communication effort. Along these lines, this study examines the...