6th June – Day One
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| 8.30am |
REGISTRATION Grab your event badge, a coffee and relax with other participants before the Summit starts. |
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| 8.45am |
SESSION 1: Speed Meeting for Science Here’s your chance to participate in some highly focused science communication networking! Come along to share a pertinent science communication message or to just meet with the other attendees to discover the wide variety of backgrounds. |
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| 9.30am |
WELCOME TO THE SUMMIT Livestream commences | Register to watch Find out just what you will be doing over the 2 days and why it is important for science in Australia.
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| 9.45am |
SESSION 2: An Inspiring Australia Story Hear about the role Inspiring Australia is playing in facilitating a brighter future for science communication and discover how Inspiring Australia Strategy is providing clear strategy and leadership for science communication relevant to your own work.
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| 10.00am |
SESSION 3: Future Sign Posts: Milestones on the road to 2050 Where is science communication in Australia headed and how do we propose to get there? In this session we will look at some proposed milestones for the future and the crowd-sourced issues and challenges we will need to overcome along the way.
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| 10.30am |
MORNING BREAK
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| 11.00am |
SESSION 4: So You Think You Can Spin? Industry speakers will share their experiences in communicating a complex area of science in an open forum.
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| 11.45m |
Stream Overview Introducing the what, why, where and how of the Summit’s workshops. |
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| 12.00pm | WORKSHOP 1: Turning Challenges Into Opportunities Time to roll up your sleeves. Participants work in their chosen workshop themes to validate the crowd-sourced impediments and begin uncovering solutions to science communication’s major obstacles. |
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STREAM ONE It’s a two way street: engaging ALL Australians in the sciences. Considering Australia’s relatively small and geographically dispersed population, where are the significant gaps within science engagement in Australia and how can we ensure a more equitable system of two-way science communication irrespective of geography, ethnicity, age or social condition? In the future how will we communicate to and learn from under-served groups, such as those living in outer metropolitan, regional and remote areas; Indigenous communities; people for whom English is a second language; and people who are disabled or have limited mobility?
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STREAM TWO Participative science: encouraging the best in citizen science. How can the platforms and processes of citizen science be used to deliver public science engagement activities across Australia? What are the most valuable ways for science communicators, practitioners and the public to work together?
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STREAM THREE Beyond tweets and blogs: leveraging the changing media landscape. An exponential increase in the form and function of new media both nationally and internationally has brought into stark relief the complex relationship between science, the media and the public. How can Australian science communicators make the most of the increased opportunities available online? Is there a need for stronger collaboration between scientists, artists, producers and editors to develop new ideas and push the boundaries of traditional media content?
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STREAM FOUR Diminishing degrees of separation: developing collaborative approaches across sectors. We all hold pieces of the jigsaw that makes up best practice in science communication, and finding ways to more easily collaborate and join our efforts provides for a sum picture greater than any of its parts. Such collaboration needs to occur across state and territory boundaries, between education, science, media/public relations and industry sectors and between key national organisations such as the Academies, Science and Technology Australia, Australian Science Communicators and CSIRO. There are currently a number of networks including the Inspiring Australia officers in each state and territories and nationally, and other federal, state and territory government networks, as well as a national science communications community that cross media, education and private enterprise. Collaboration clearly makes a lot of sense, so what is currently preventing these and other networks better collaborating and maximising their impacts? And do networks make it harder for non-aligned individuals to participate? This workshop will seek to map better ways to bring those jigsaw puzzle pieces together to collaborate nationally, examine what can realistically be achieved, and discuss what will indicators of success look like?
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STREAM FIVE Data at work: developing the evidence base to guide future action. In order to conduct robust, effective and meaningful science engagement in Australia, a solid evidence base is critical. Over recent months a number of reports have been released as a result of IA-supported initiatives, and the science engagement evidence base they present has been developed.
So where to now? Now that we have an evidence base in development, how do we use the data? How should this information be shared, and with whom? How will it be kept up-to-date? Are any vital areas still unexplored? Have we even gathered the right data at all? What are the ramifications for future funding and policy decisions? Where do we want to be in five years’ time? What should be our goals? A consistent measure for science engagement activities and a national picture of Australian’s attitudes towards science? Something else?
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| 1.30pm | LUNCH Looking to expand your network into new and exciting areas? Like to follow up on the conversations from the Speed Meeting session? Well this is the perfect time to connect on the topics most important to you and broaden your sci-com circles! |
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| 2.30pm | WORKSHOP 2: Turning Challenges Into Opportunities Time to roll up your sleeves again. Participants now choose a second workshop theme to participate in. |
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STREAM ONE It’s a two way street: engaging ALL Australians in the sciences. Considering Australia’s relatively small and geographically dispersed population, where are the significant gaps within science engagement in Australia and how can we ensure a more equitable system of two-way science communication irrespective of geography, ethnicity, age or social condition? In the future how will we communicate to and learn from under-served groups, such as those living in outer metropolitan, regional and remote areas; Indigenous communities; people for whom English is a second language; and people who are disabled or have limited mobility?
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STREAM TWO Participative science: encouraging the best in citizen science. How can the platforms and processes of citizen science be used to deliver public science engagement activities across Australia? What are the most valuable ways for science communicators, practitioners and the public to work together?
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STREAM THREE Beyond tweets and blogs: leveraging the changing media landscape. An exponential increase in the form and function of new media both nationally and internationally has brought into stark relief the complex relationship between science, the media and the public. How can Australian science communicators make the most of the increased opportunities available online? Is there a need for stronger collaboration between scientists, artists, producers and editors to develop new ideas and push the boundaries of traditional media content?
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STREAM FOUR Diminishing degrees of separation: developing collaborative approaches across sectors. We all hold pieces of the jigsaw that makes up best practice in science communication, and finding ways to more easily collaborate and join our efforts provides for a sum picture greater than any of its parts. Such collaboration needs to occur across state and territory boundaries, between education, science, media/public relations and industry sectors and between key national organisations such as the Academies, Science and Technology Australia, Australian Science Communicators and CSIRO. There are currently a number of networks including the Inspiring Australia officers in each state and territories and nationally, and other federal, state and territory government networks, as well as a national science communications community that cross media, education and private enterprise. Collaboration clearly makes a lot of sense, so what is currently preventing these and other networks better collaborating and maximising their impacts? And do networks make it harder for non-aligned individuals to participate? This workshop will seek to map better ways to bring those jigsaw puzzle pieces together to collaborate nationally, examine what can realistically be achieved, and discuss what will indicators of success look like?
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STREAM FIVE Data at work: developing the evidence base to guide future action. In order to conduct robust, effective and meaningful science engagement in Australia, a solid evidence base is critical. Over recent months a number of reports have been released as a result of IA-supported initiatives, and the science engagement evidence base they present has been developed.
So where to now? Now that we have an evidence base in development, how do we use the data? How should this information be shared, and with whom? How will it be kept up-to-date? Are any vital areas still unexplored? Have we even gathered the right data at all? What are the ramifications for future funding and policy decisions? Where do we want to be in five years’ time? What should be our goals? A consistent measure for science engagement activities and a national picture of Australian’s attitudes towards science? Something else?
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| 4.00pm |
AFTERNOON TEA
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| 4.30pm |
SESSION 5: Knowledge (Sharing) is Power Our crowd sourced speakers sharing a single key lesson learnt from communicating science in Australia whether a glorious success or spectacular failure. Each one has 10 minutes to convey their learnings from a science communication project.
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| 5.00pm |
SESSION 6: Mapping Exercise Part One – Presentations One expert and a participant from each workshop theme will briefly run through the key impediments and solutions produced by their team. |
| 6.00pm |
SPECIAL EVENT After a day of overcoming obstacles it’s time to relax and enjoy a special event with drinks.
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| 7.00pm | END OF DAY ONE |
7th June – Day Two
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| 8.00am |
BREAKFAST COFFEE Coffee with a light breakfast will be available. |
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| 8.30am |
WELCOME TO DAY TWO OF THE SUMMIT A warm welcome back to day two from our host Dr Derek Muller. SESSION 1: UNSW Breakfast Panel Livestream commences | Register to watch
Breakfast sponsored by |
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| 9.30am |
SESSION 2: Come Walk a Mile in My Sci-Com Shoes Using a hypothetical format – representatives of organisations from the science sector will take part in an exercise to show how they would individually and then collectively, respond to a major national science communication issue.
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| 11.00am |
MORNING TEA BREAK
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| 11.30am |
SESSION 3: Reality Bites Workshop results are in and the solutions have been proposed, but how do they stack up in reality? An interactive session with leaders from federal and state governments and from leading non-government organisations and peak bodies will assess these solutions in a public panel with the aim of ground-truthing the solutions.
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| 12.45pm |
LUNCH Grab some well-deserved and delicious brain-fuel and continue the conversations. TIME TO VOTE! Having worked on the solutions and listened to the opinions of leaders from Australia’s science sector all delegates will now have the opportunity to vote for what they perceive to be the best solutions generated from the workshops. Vote online at sciencerewired.org/vote
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| 1.45pm |
SESSION 4: Knowledge (Sharing) is Power Our crowd sourced speakers sharing a single key lesson learnt from communicating science in Australia whether a glorious success or spectacular failure. Each one has 10 minutes to convey their learnings from a science communication project.
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| 2.15pm |
SESSION 5: Where to Next? Bringing it All Together The voting is in! This session will focus on the who, how, where and when of achieving the agreed solutions. It is time for action in order to make progress.
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| 4.00pm | Closing Comments and End of Summit |
