FORUM ON PHYSICS AND SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP SURVEY


INTRODUCTION


This Forum on Physics and Society (FPS) membership survey invites your input to help reshape our agenda, and refocus our activities. Your anonymous responses will ensure that the FPS invited sessions and the Physics and Society (P&S) Newsletter will more closely reflect FPS membership interests, broaden the FPS agenda and enlist greater membership involvement. Please take 5 minutes of your time to respond in the next 2 weeks. Your input will assist the elected FPS leadership in prioritizing and addressing current membership concerns.


Please select the applicable answer, or reply to open ended questions. Thank you.


PART I. DEMOGRAPHIC MEMBERSHIP PROFILE


1. For how many years have you been a member of the FPS?


2. Affiliation and type of work (check all applicable categories):


  1. Type of organization you work in:


    1. Federal government and National Lab

    2. University

    3. Industry

    4. Nonprofit Organization

    5. Other (specify):


  2. Type of work you do:

    1. Basic research

    2. Applied research

    3. Research on public policy issues

    4. R&D planning

    5. Education

    6. Defense analysis or consulting

    7. Other (specify):



3. Please list 3-5 aspects of public interest related to your work area:



4. Are you involved in any public interest organizations of scientists?


Yes No


5. If so, which?


6. Please check below any other grassroots activities you have been/are engaged in:


    1. Helping in political campaigns

    2. Teaching Arms Control or Environmental Physics, or Technology and Policy courses

    3. Speaking on science and society issues to local groups

    4. Writing letters to or visiting public policy makers

    5. Articles in national or local newspapers

    6. Reading about public policy issues

    7. Other (please specify)


7. FPS Involvement: Have you ever served on the FPS Executive Committee?

Yes No


8. FPS Interest: If not, would you be willing to serve in the future? (If you check Y your identity is optional)


Yes No


9. Do you think that the APS (specifically the FPS) should have higher public profile and broader involvement in physics and society issues?

Yes No

10. If Yes to 9, please suggest how FPS can be more effective in educating the physics community and the public on societal impacts of science and technology:




PART II. EVALUATING FPS OUTREACH AND SESSION TOPICS


11. Have you attended any FPS session at APS annual meetings in the past 3 years?

Yes No


12. If YES to 11, which was your favorite topic?


13. If you did not attend, why not?



14. Have you ever contributed or presented a paper in a Forum session?

Yes No

15. If Yes to 14, when and on which topic?

16. If NO to 14, would you present a paper in the future? (please specify topic):



PART III. P&S NEWSLETTER QUALITY AND TOPICS


17, Do you read the P&S Newsletter:


Always?
Frequently?
Rarely?
Never?

18. Do you prefer reading the P&S Newsletter:


as paper copy?
via web access?
both options?


19. Did you ever write for P& S Newsletter:


i- an article Yes No


ii- a book review Yes No


iii- a letter Yes No


iv- science policy news Yes No



20. If Yes to 19, when was your last contribution?

21. If No to 19, would you like to contribute an article for P&S in the future?

Yes No

22. If Yes to 21, when and on which topic? (your identity is optional)




PART IV: FOCUS OF FPS ACTIVITIES


23. Please select your level of interest (high, medium and low) in the following traditional P&S issues for future FPS topical sessions or P&S issues:


i- Science of Arms Control and Defense Policy:

High Medium Low


ii- Science and Energy:

High Medium Low


iii- Science and the Environment:

High Medium Low


iv- Science and Technology Policy:

High Medium Low


v- Nuclear Energy and nuclear waste issues:

High Medium Low


vi- Socioeconomic Implications of New Technologies:

High Medium Low


vii- Physics in the Congress:

High Medium Low


viii- Physics and Science Literacy (with FEd):

High Medium Low


ix- Physicists and the Job market (with FIAP):

High Medium Low


x- Physics and Scientific Openness:

High Medium Low


xi- Physics and Gender Issues (with CSWP):

High Medium Low


xii- Minorities in Physics Issues (with COM):

High Medium Low


xiii- Science vs. Pseudoscience:

High Medium Low


xiv-Technology for developing nations:

High Medium Low


xv- Other (specify):



24. Please, list your 3-5 priority topics for future FPS sessions: