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M. W. Bauer, Methodology Institute. A former Research Fellow at the Science Museum London, he directs the LSE Master Programme in Social and Public Communications He researches the contributions of resistance to social processes and the comparison of public representations of science and technology. He publishes books and scholarly articles on the dynamics and impact of public opinion on new scientific and technological developments: Resistance to New Technology Biotechnology: The Making of a Global Controversy (with G. Gaskell, Social Psychology and Research Methodology at the London School of Economics, and associated with Social PsychologyBauer@lse.ac.uk Nick Allum is Lecturer in Quantitative Sociology at the His current research interests are in public understanding of science, the social psychology of risk and social and political trust. He also has interests in survey methods and teaches quantitative methods to undergraduates and postgraduates, 1995.