论文标题
天文学家如何看待研究的社会影响：一项探索性研究
How Astronomers Perceive the Societal Impact of Research: An Exploratory Study
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论文摘要
我们提出了一项探索性研究，对专业天文学家对天文学的社会影响的看法。已经对来自职业生涯和文化背景的天文学家进行了十次半结构化访谈，以深入了解他们对社会影响的看法及其在实现社会影响方面的看法。结果表明，受访者意识到天文学研究的影响多样性。但是，他们大多积极参与外展活动，只有一些活动被纳入他们的工作中以影响发展。在工业，政策或其他领域（例如发展）中，利益相关者几乎没有联系。此外，缺乏个人宣传中的结构化方法，而评估仅非正式地进行。尽管这项研究的样本量有限，但结果表明，要使专业天文学家与具有发展和社会影响的主题相关的专业天文学家需要进一步的变化，以对个人研究人员的水平产生行动。
We present an exploratory study of the perception of professional astronomers about the societal impact of astronomy. Ten semi-structured interviews with astronomers from a range of career and cultural backgrounds have been conducted to gain in-depth insight into their opinion about societal impact and their approach in realising it. The results show that the interviewees are aware of the diversity of impacts that astronomical research has. However, they are mostly active in outreach and only a few activities are incorporated into their jobs to achieve an impact on development. There is little contact with stakeholders in industry, policy or other fields, like development. Besides, a structured approach in their personal outreach is lacking, and assessment is only done informally. Despite the limited sample size of this study, the results indicate that a further change is necessary to engage professional astronomers with topics of development and societal impact to create action on the level of individual researchers.
