Published in the Public Understanding of Science journal in 2008.

By Sarah Davies, Ellen McCallie, Elin Simonsson, Jane L. Lehr and Sally Duensing

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The purpose of this analysis is to display several perspectives on the value of non-policy dialogue on science as sites of individual or small-scale learning, rather than institutional learning through social processes. It also aims to open up a discussion about these non policyinforming events by arguing that there are further ways to understand and frame them. The analysis draws on different literatures and seeks to make use of specialists´ expertise within its discussion, in order to display these perspectives.