We have little systematic knowledge about scholars’ goals for public engagement in the academic literature. This study therefore provides a secondary analysis of two surveys of scholars that included closed-ended questions about goals. One survey from 2017 was from a sample of Canadian grant recipients from a federal science funding agency, while the second survey from 2018 comes from a sample of professors at top American research universities. The focus of this research is on both presenting novel data about scholars’ expressed goals and exploring the relationships between these goals and potential predictors of these goals, including demographics, past engagement behavior, and overall views about public engagement. Areas for future research are then described.

我们对学者在学术文献中公众参与的目标知之甚少。因此，本研究对两项包括关于目标的封闭式问题的学者调查进行了二次分析。2017 年的一项调查来自联邦科学资助机构的加拿大赠款接受者样本，而 2018 年的第二项调查来自美国顶尖研究型大学的教授样本。本研究的重点是提供有关学者表达的目标的新数据，并探索这些目标与这些目标的潜在预测因素之间的关系，包括人口统计、过去的参与行为和对公众参与的总体看法。然后描述了未来研究的领域。