With a long history in Scientific communication, “Science and Society” is an important part of the British government's technological innovation policy. The government views Science and Society as a necessary condition for British and global success. The background, policy making and development process, specific content and measures, the latest progress and the new development of the Science and Society Programme of UK in the past 10 years are systematically analyzed. The study finds that the British government plays a leading and “catalyst” role in the development of the programme. In order to maintain the policy's effectiveness, efforts shall be made to make the policy content be embodied and targeted, to adequately engage experts in wider organizations and relevant fields during the entire process of policy formulation, implementation and evaluation, to interact with the public, to maintain coordination among relevant social organizations, to follow up on the implementation of policies, to conduct timely experience summary, and to carry out policy revision.

Biographies of scientists of modern China are encountering multiple dilemmas largely due to the conflicts between realities and dramas of biographical literature, the differences between natural science and humanities and social science, and the checks and balances of scientific popularization, historical research, ideological propaganda and the like. This paper analyzes the afore-mentioned multiple dilemmas. Biographies of scientists of modern China can combine science with drama, history and literature only when scientists and biography authors have good cooperation. Researchers of history of science and technology bear important responsibility in this process. Moreover, the development and improvement of biographies of scientists of modern China hinges on the enhancement of scientific literacy of all citizens in China.

During the period of the Republic of China, the country suffered a difficult time, and the people were lacking knowledge about health, therefore, a great number of periodicals came to the forefront to assume responsibility for disseminating knowledge about infectious diseases to the public in a wider scope, such as the knowledge of pathogenesis, infectionroute, symptom, therapies, and the prevention methods. The popularization activities contributed to enhancing public's awareness in the prevention, promoting the progress in national public health, and bringing hope and confidence to the infectious.

As the largest conference in the field of science communication, the 15th annual conference of Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) was held in Dunedin, New Zealand during April 3-6, 2018. The conference gathered global researchers and practitioners from the field of science communication, even scientists to discuss topics with wide concern, some of which are new emerging topics. Hence, it represented research trend of science communication. The title of the conference, entitled “Science, Stories and Society takes us to the core of the worldwide science communication endeavor”, is composed of 3 sub-thesis. The conference collected 344 proposals from 44 countries, including 12 proposals from research institutions or universities in China. Among them, authors of 6 proposals from China participated in report and discussion in the conference. In order to keep abreast of new trend of science communication at home and abroad, the paper analyzed proposal distribution of different sub-topics, most popular sub-thesis, and the topic and content of Chinese proposals.

Recently, researchers have been exploring ways to apply social-psychological model to examining how individual's cognition, affection, attitudes and behaviors influence the effect of science communication. For example, the Risk Information Seeking and Processing (RISP) model is used to explain the conditions under which individuals seek and process risk information. After reviewing related literature, the paper takes the issue about GM Food as an example to explore how individual psychological and social variables and their relationship influence individual's processing of information by using RISP. Finally, the paper discusses how to use the results of RISP studies to design effective science communication.

This research analyzes the shortage of talents and irrational structure in the construction of science popularization talents in China, with considering the influencing factors and functions from the perspective of organizational attractiveness. Through an empirical study, it is found that both instrumental attributes and symbolic attributes have significant and positive influence on potential talents' perception of the attractiveness of science organization, where the symbolic attributes effect is greater than the instrumental attributes. Promotion, competence and prestige are all relating to the attractiveness of science popularization organization. Gender has a significant impact on the relationship between the characteristics of science popularization and organizational attractiveness. In addition, the potential talents are less prone to the perception of science popularization work and organizational attraction, consequently, some measures should be taken to improve the attraction of the talents for science popularization organization.

The construction of a scientific educational material platform based on the digital interactive service model mainly solves two problems in science education: one is to solve the problem of quantity and quality of teaching materials; the other is to construct the cognitive-involvement-inquiry learning process of scientific knowledge and help learners gain “meta-cognitive abilities” for the ontology of science education. The design of this platform adopts the form of new media, based on internet thinking, cloud storage, big data technology, and integrated terminal equipment applications, with a view to establishing a nationwide non-differentiated teaching material platform. The science education teaching material is essentially digitally oriented. Therefore, this paper designs the function and application model of the platform based on the digital interactive service model and constructivism learning theory. The platform design includes two paths and six modules. The two paths are “content chain” and “information transmission chain”; the six modules are: collection of teaching materials, content planning of teaching materials, brand packaging of teaching materials, platform software development, cloud storage services, and terminal equipment integration. The application of the platform, the use of digital technology, co-construction and sharing of ideas, across the time and space constraints, scientific education for science education, art, visualization of digital teaching materials, stimulate students' thirst for knowledge, enhance the expressiveness of knowledge, and improve the overall effect of science education.

There are few researches on disaster education courses. Disaster education textbooks, if not aligning with scientific basis, may cause another disaster when it comes to the compilation of some textbooks. In light of this, the research focuses on education courses. Curriculum development research is principally conducted through international comparison, survey research and case retrieval on teachers. Concerning the construction of curriculum objective, it can be achieved by an analysis of the subject development, the curriculum design method, and developing the disaster education curriculum.

With the rapid development of science and technology, the characteristics of science as a kind of culture has become increasingly evident. In order to investigate Chinese rural residents' attitude towards science, the research team conducted a survey through questionnaires in Xiachen village of Taizhou in Zhejiang Province, for which a series of face to face interviews were also carried out. The findings of the study are unfolded as follows: 1. almost all the respondents view science and scientist in a positive manner, 2. most of the residents, especially the aged, are willing to participate in the community activities, 3. superstition still has some influence on the public's attitude towards science in the rural areas. The paper puts forward some suggestions on science communication in Chinese rural areas based on the afore-mentioned conclusions and interviews.

By an investigation and analysis of the exhibits education activities in 25 science and technology museums including the China Science and Technology Museum, the author finds the defects and difficulties as follows: the development is lagging far behind the construction of stadiums and gymnasiums, the building of professional personnels can not meet the needs of industry development, development level and degree is unable to satisfy the needs of the public, and development assessment and process management still need to be improved. To promote continued and further development of exhibits educational activities of science and technology museums, the following suggestions are unfolded: grasp the development of the industry, strengthen the top-level design, focus on accelerating the building of talent team and process management, attach great importance to the combined development of industry, university and research, and strengthen IP application in such museums, etc.