Dr David Levy awarded grant from Green Templeton College

David Levy was awarded a grant from Green Templeton College (College Based Academic Initiatives Fund) for ‘The state of the UK media's reporting of risk and uncertainty in science’. The grant runs from 1 August 2012 to 31 July 2013.

This project, seen as the first step in developing a larger initiative on the topic, is designed to update and review the current reporting of risk and uncertainty around scientific issues by UK newspapers, magazines, web sites and broadcast media. It seeks to identify the main trends and issues around the portrayal of such issues, with a view to feeding the results into a joint RISJ/GTC publication on the current state of reporting of risk and uncertainty and the challenges such reporting faces in the future.

More information on the project can be found on page 11 of the DPIR Publicity Brochure, Research Projects 2012-13