25 community pilots addressing policy delivering the water directive framework. A range of public engagement activities were supported in 13 of these pilot catchments.

A public dialogue on food supply challenges and potential solutions in the UK. Workshops involving 49 participants sought to inform the public on the food system challenges and better understand public attitudes towards solutions, notably utilising agricultural technologies.

Dialogue exploring public attitudes towards trust in information communication technologies (ICT)

A three-part citizen jury style public dialogue addressing carbon emissions reductions. The results informed the Committee on Climate Changes advice to the UK government on the 4th Carbon Budget.

A multi strand public engagement process addressing ethical implications of stem cell research in the UK. The project included deliberative workshops, q methodology and stakeholder interviews.

A public dialogue to inform Government and other public, private and infrastructure organisations’ policy on space weather, and the consequences on people and infrastructure

A public dialogue engaged the public through seven workshops addressing significant water management issues for the Environment Agency’s River Basin Management Plans.

This public dialogue project engaged the public on issues relating to shale gas exploration and related developments. 71 members of the public engaged in workshops aimed at better understanding how to explain the process and what regulatory processes would inspire confidence.

In May 2006, the Sciencewise programme commissioned the Sciencehorizons project to explore the public’s views on the science and technology themes that had emerged from strategic work by the UK Government’s Horizon Scanning Centre.

Strand 1 of the Science, Trust and Public Engagement project reviews key lessons of public dialogues through a review and analysis of the literature, supplemented by interviews and a workshop with experts and participants in these processes.