Welcome To Public Space.

Kathleen Cross brings experience in social science research and extensive practical experience in facilitating professional communication and public engagement.  She brings a particular commitment to facilitating communication for public good, including public participation in policy-making, public discussion of complex policy issues and resolution of conflict.

She was lead facilitator (for Lancaster University) in the 2005 UK Citizen Panels for the Committee for Radioactive Waste Management, jointly facilitating the interactions about complex technical, societal and moral issues between citizens and experts.  She had previously worked with Lancaster University on projects for the MoD on public understandings of risk and on the management of nuclear waste.

As a facilitator-interpreter she has accompanied German trade union representatives on educational and strategy planning visits with their counterparts in the UK, the US, Sweden, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, enabling working relationships to be deepened through greater intercultural and interpersonal understanding.

Her research has been into the cultural assumptions underlying representations of science policy in the popular science media.

Her training in both humanities and social sciences has enabled her to specialise as a translator (German-English) of academic texts in many fields, including work by Ulrich Beck and Niklas Luhmann.  She lives in Germany and the UK.