Bioassays and Risk Communication: Communication Strategy : data
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Data in this collection was gathered as part of an Urban Water Security Research Alliance (UWSRA) project that aimed at investigating the role of science, especially advanced monitoring techniques (bioassays), in policy decision making. Investigators used a semi-structured questionnaire to guide three sets of 11 interviews with water industry practitioners (33 interviews in total). Interviews were conducted before and after technology transfer workshops, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the workshops in increasing awareness and perceptions regarding the ability to provide recycled water and the role science plays in informing risk perceptions. Interviews were then repeated 12 months after the initial study to determine whether there had been a long-term shift in attitudes and increased uptake of the emerging monitoring methods. Interviews were audio-recorded in mp3 format and professionally transcribed. The transcribed interview data was imported into NVivo for qualitative data analysis.
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The major aim of this study is to investigate the role of science into policy decision-making, focussed specifically around advanced monitoring techniques such as bioassays, or bio-analytical techniques. It also aims to identify the obstacles to improving communication links between science, policy and practice. An additional outcome will be that the workshops themselves become an educational resource. The workshops are based on material to be developed to explain bioanalytical tools to an informed but not expert audience. This material is to be published mid-2011 in a book entitled “Bioanalytical tools in water quality assessment. The target audience for the book and workshops is the water providers (the regulated), the government (regulators) and the providers of new knowledge (the researchers). The research will be conducted through face-to-face interviews with participants before and after technology transfer workshops, as well as targeted studies to answer the research questions. The research questions themselves will be informed by the results of the NWC/WQRA study “Enhancing risk communication between scientists, policy-makers and managers of recycled water in Australia” conducted in 2010.
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Analytical Biochemistry
Water Treatment Processes
water quality assessment
bioassays
recycled water
science communication
risk communication
attitudes
behaviour