Do science shops have an Advisory Board?
Some have, some don’t. An Advisory Board can be helpful to keep scientifically sound and societally relevant. In practice, in The Netherlands, most science shops do have scientific advisory boards. They meets several times a year. Some do discuss all requests for research while other Advisory Boards concentrate on strategic issues. Most Boards cover the fields of expertise of the science shop, and its members represent relevant research groups. Some also include relevant administrative units (like student affairs) and students. In the early years, there were many people from NGOs in the Advisory Boards, but over the years they became satisfied with science shop service and didn’t feel the need to participate. Also because the range of questions was usually much wider than their own field of issues, and it was difficult to find NGOs that represent a wide range of civil society issues. Nevertheless some science shops include representatives from NGOs in their board as well.
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