Public Scholarship: Get There Quickly

Insights, Issues Public Experts Face, Moving from Expert to Public Expert / By

When researchers do public scholarship (the application of research to a contemporary problem for non-specialist audiences), they have one advantage over all the hot takers and nearly everyone else out there:

They know what they’re talking about.

And they have one disadvantage:

By the time the hot takers (like locusts) have finished with a topic, it’s close to burnt over in terms of public attention.…