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The issue positions continuity and change within four historical processes that have shaped the development of the field: institutionalisation, professionalisation, internationalisation, and diversification. Within these broad field-shaping processes, the issue seeks to capture moments of transition in science communication by featuring selected contributions to the 2025 conference of the Global Network for the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST). The special issue combines three genres of contributions: research articles, practice insights, and an invited essay. Across these different contributions, the issue captures three types of transitions, focussed on agendas, approaches, and voices. It illustrates ongoing transitions within the institutions of science communication and transitions in professional roles and institutional responsibilities. It features contributions that show how the processes of internationalisation and diversification lead to new agendas, new approaches, and, crucially, new voices that can take science communication in new directions.  \nKeywords  \nHistory of public communication of science; Public understanding of science and technology; Science communication and social justice  \nReceived: 18th June 2026  \nAccepted: 21st June 2026  \nPublished: 13th July 2026  \nJournal of Science Communication 25(05)(2026)E  \n[https://doi.org/10.22323/416920260621110238](https://doi.org/10.22323/416920260621110238)  \nOur special issue, titled “Transitions in Science Communication: Continuity and Change”, prompts two immediate questions. How can we identify continuities? And how can we discern changes in an academic field, which tend to be slow, incremental, and cumulative? One set of continuities was identified by Bucchi and Trench in their recent book Science Communication: The Basics [2025, p. 62]. They argued that four clear processes could be observed in the development of the field: institutionalisation, professionalisation, internationalisation, and diversification. They added a fifth, commercialisation, in their book, but noted that it was not yet as pronounced as the others. Within the context of these larger structural processes, this special issue of JCOM seeks to capture transitions, particularly processes of change, in science communication.  \nIdentifying processes and moments of transition as they are occurring is a difficult task, as transitions can be most reliably identified retrospectively. New ideas and approaches that at first appear novel can fade away or solidify over time into core concepts that underpin fresh research agendas. One way to discern transitions in a field at an early stage is to focus on selected contributions to a major international conference, identifying emergent ideas that have the potential to signal moments of transition, as we do in this special issue. Transitionsin science communication was one of the three themes of the 2025 conference of the Global Network for the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST), a major international network of scholars and practitioners of science communication. The conference took place in Aberdeen, Scotland, bringing together over 650 participants from more than 55 countries on the topic of “Using Science Communication to Effect Positive Change: Exploring Transitions, Traditions and Tensions”. Our special issue is one of three journal special issues devoted to the conference, with two issues of Cultures of Science, tobe published in 2026, focussing on the themes of traditions and tensions.  \nThis special issue continues a tradition of collaboration between PCST, es","cbCais6xRnKnxf5h","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCais6xRnKnxf5h","pdf",151908,"English","# Editorial\n## Background and field-shaping processes\n## Identifying moments of transition\n## Conference context and collaboration tradition\n## Call for papers and selection approach\n## Overview of the collected contributions\n## Agendas","[{\"question\":\"What processes does the editorial use to explain continuity and change in science communication?\",\"answer\":\"It highlights four historical processes: institutionalisation, professionalisation, internationalisation, and diversification.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the special issue capture transitions as they are occurring?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on selected contributions to the 2025 PCST conference to identify emergent ideas that may signal moments of transition.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of contributions are included in the special issue?\",\"answer\":\"The collection combines three genres: research articles, practice insights, and an invited essay, covering transitions in agendas, approaches, and voices.\"}]","Transitions in Science Communication: Continuity and Change - Editorial - JCOM Special Issue | PDF",11]