Boundary Spanners and Thinking Partners

by | Nov 16, 2021 | On the Blog, Publications

Christmas came early in 2020, as I had the chance to interview an awesome group of leaders from across the informal learning and science communication fields to learn about their experiences with research-practice partnerships (RPPs). My job was to learn about their work and to identify themes that might inform the field. Life began to imitate art as the entire group continued to work together in early 2022 on a publication that came out recently, and that focuses on the roles of thinking partners and boundary spanners in RPPs about public engagement with science. Read all about it here!

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