We have dealt a lot with communication over the past couple of days. Looked at it from many angles, tackled many different ways to improve it and its delivery to very diverse target audiences. Awesome. Quick question: do these audiences know we are trying to actually connect with them? Do we have to do it [...]
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Diminishing Degrees Of Separation: Developing Collaborative Approaches Across Sectors
The spider’s web of collaboration: Are you weaving the threads, dodging the spider or getting caught in the web? Everyone appreciates a good system, but how do we get there? For the complex endeavors of science communication, engagement and research uptake, collaboration among various stakeholders is the key to success. At present, there are various [...]
Engaging All Australians – Moving Beyond Children And Education
The ‘It’s a Two Way Street – Engaging all Australians in the Sciences’ workshop focused on the challenge of creating programs, strategies and mindsets to allow engagement for all Australians with science. Sitting in small groups, the usual discussions arose amongst the participants when considering barriers to engaging with wider audiences and ‘non-traditional’ groups. Examining [...]
Turning Data And Evidence Into Education
During the first morning of the Big Science Communication Summit hosted by ScienceRewired (and what a morning it was!), one of the key points that was repeatedly touched on by the speakers was science in education; educating regarding age, the impression and message given, the approaches taken to education, and the medium used for educating. Craig Cormick [...]
Beyond Tweets And Blogs: Leveraging The Changing Media Landscape
Presented by Deborah Smith, Sarah Terkes, Dr Susannah Eliott and Carol Saab. This workshop aims to produce solutions to impediments, in regards to “where we need to get to”. Each group lists their top three impediments on large sticky notes, which are then shared. In this workshop, people leave comments as to what they think are impediments [...]
Participative Science: Encouraging The Best In Citizen Science
A quick introduction from Will Grant, Peta Ashworth and John Le Salle kicked this workshop off; we could see butchers paper, post it notes, pens and a whiteboard at the ready. To get us focused, Will asked: How can platforms of citizen science better engage people in science? What have been the failures and successes; [...]