Editing Adam Hart-Davis (section)

==Advocacy of the application and usefulness of science==

Hart-Davis has a passion for raising awareness of simple benefits that science may bring to the quality of living, particularly in the developing world. One such innovation is the design of smoke-hoods from galvanised iron or mud to prevent the [[Energy poverty and cooking|deadly effects of smoke inhalation]] from cooking fires inside houses in the developing world.<ref>[http://practicalaction.org/?id=smoke_ahd Smoke and its impact on people's lives] Practical Action</ref>

He is the Patron of the FatallyFlawed campaign against the use of plug-in socket covers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fatallyflawed.org.uk|title=FatallyFlawed website|accessdate=16 September 2012}}</ref>

He is also Patron of [[Erasmus Darwin House]] in [[Lichfield]], the eighteenth-century home of [[Charles Darwin]]'s grandfather, now a museum open to the public.{{cn|date=June 2023}}