3S members have contributed to the recently-released Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies. Edited by Ulrike Felt and Alan Irwin, the volume offers a comprehensive overview of the field of STS through short, accessible chapters on the field’s key frameworks, themes, and topics. It is intended to act as a guide to STS for newcomers and students, as well as to help more senior researchers keep apace with this rapidly expanding and impactful field of research.

Jason Chilvers, along with Matthew Kearnes (UNSW Sydney), has contributed a chapter on STS and public participation. The chapter outlines three main ways in which STS work has approached public participation and engagement with science and technology. First, it shows how earlier social studies of science have depicted science as a participatory practice but one that often excludes publics and society. Second, it considers how STS work has been invested in the development and extension of public participation methods, approaches and practices. Third, it introduces recent work that has turned STS perspectives onto participation and engagement as objects of study and intervention themselves, opening up new possibilities for remaking participation.

Martin Mahony, along with Silke Beck (TU Munich) and Tim Forsyth (LSE), has contributed a chapter on STS and climate change. The chapter summarises work on the historical development of scientific knowledge about climate change, and its evolution alongside shifting international policy agendas. It covers questions about how climate change risks are constructed and computed in the service of adaptation policies, and how social values and preferences find their way into projections of climatic futures and discussions about possible solutions. The chapter shows how STS researchers have helped improve science-policy relationships around climate change, but also maps the work that still needs to be done to further democratize knowledge-making and decision-making.