Jane Macoubrie - Senior Advisor to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Dr. Jane Macoubrie is presently a Senior Advisor to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and President, Embry Research & Communications. She co-designed and conducted the first nationally representative survey gauging the American public’s perceptions about nanotechnology. Those results were published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research in 2004. She has published two studies of informed citizen perceptions of nanotechnology, as well. The first of these, “Nanotechnology: Public Concerns, Reasoning, and Trust in Government,” is forthcoming (2006) in Public Understanding of Science. The second study, “Informed Public Perceptions of Nanotechnology and Trust in Government” (2005), includes analysis of reasoning underlying trust in agencies with responsibilities for nanotechnology regulation. Links to the articles can be found at http://www.embryresearch.com.
Jane has knowledgeable about effective processes for citizen involvement in technology policy, focusing on communication variables influencing outcomes. In 2003-2005 she directed the first ever (and successful) completely Internet-mediated citizens’ consensus conferences, on global warming and genetically modified foods.
Dr. Macoubrie is a social scientist in communication studies. She received her Ph.D. (1998) and her M.A. (1994) from the University of Washington and was Assistant Professor of Public and Interpersonal Communication at North Carolina State University from 1998-2005. Contact her at info@embryresearch.com or jmacou@mac.com, 303-830-6939 or cell 919-744-1841.
