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Science and Technology Communication Lab
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A lab that clarifies how science and society relate by going into the field.
AboutAbout the lab
Examining science and technology in society up close
The Science and Technology Communication Lab studies the relationship between science and society, aiming to improve it.
Expert knowledge is unevenly distributed. Who opens it up, how, to whom, and with whom do they create new knowledge? The lab considers this question in close connection with practice.
Centering on fieldwork and using methods such as large-scale questionnaire surveys as needed, the lab seeks to clarify science and technology as a social phenomenon from a broad, historical perspective.
Students join this lab from graduate school; it does not accept undergraduate thesis students.
Key terms
- Science and technology communication
- Scholarship and activities that aim to clarify and improve the relationship between science and society
- Questionnaire survey
- A method in which many people answer a fixed set of questions, used to examine trends in thinking and behavior numerically
- Dual use
- The possibility that the same research result can be used in beneficial ways and also in harmful ways
NewsLab news
Associate Professor Kawamoto wrote a chapter in the Handbook of Synthetic Biology
An article on research on homing pigeons was published in the Bulletin of the Otaru City Museum
A master's student's essay was published in the science essay magazine Kyuri
ResearchResearch themes
Science and technology communication is an interdisciplinary field that overlaps with many others. Combining fieldwork with methods such as large-scale questionnaire surveys, the lab seeks to clarify science and technology as a social phenomenon from a broad, historical perspective.
*Illustrative imageWhat is science and technology communication?
Even under the single label of science and technology communication, aims and methods vary widely. Emphasizing fieldwork, the lab examines a variety of cases from macro and historical perspectives. It pays particular attention to communication between people with different values and knowledge.
*Illustrative imageThe appeal and pitfalls of duality
Scholarship saves many lives, but it can also cause great harm when used in unintended ways. The lab studies the problem of dual use (both the dual nature of uses and military-civilian dual use) through historical cases as well as contemporary ones.
*Illustrative imageCreating something new
What mechanisms are needed for better science and technology communication? What social technologies are needed to create new science and technology together? Working with people in diverse positions, the lab conducts practical research that creates these in the field.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Science and Technology Communication Lab consist of faculty, master's students, and research students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorShishin Kawamoto
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Manitoba Museum Planetarium” TMMCommunications / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- What is science and technology communication?: “Akteure der Wissenschaftskommunikation” Spektrumdw / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- The appeal and pitfalls of duality: “A mail pigeon” MSN12102001 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Creating something new: “Fountain pen writing (literacy) (cropped)” Petar Milošević / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Theoretical Astrophysics Lab): “The spiral galaxy NGC 941 photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope” ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Observational Astronomy Lab): “Nobeyama 45m radiotelescope” Lapinov / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (J-Material Strongly Correlated Electron Physics Lab): “Liquid helium dewars” Adville / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Foundations of Science Lab): “Armillary sphere, 1547” Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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