The Challenges of Community Engagement.
Lyons and Whelan provide a useful list of recommendations as to how community engagement on nanotechnology could be improved, which very few people working in community engagement could disagree with. However, as the conclusions of any study are dependent on the data obtained, if more data had been obtained and analysed then different conclusions might have been reached. Addressing the key issues in the paper and providing more data, also allows an opportunity to expand on current issues relating to community engagement on nanotechnology and the challenges it provides for practitioners.
Public Awareness and Community Engagement, Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, National Enabling Technologies Strategy, Canberra, Australia.
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