"It's fantastic to be able to take the skills I've developed through majoring in science communication and put them into practice in real time at work, from stakeholder management, developing communication plans and communicating risk."
Anna-Sophie Jurgens recently organised a special themed journal issue for the Journal of Science & Popular Culture, titled Science on show: Exploring science, performance and spectacle.
In uncertain situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic, biomedical and public health experts contribute facts and their own judgements about risk to our collective thinking and decision making.
In his interview, Gascoigne expands on the making of his upcoming book "Communicating Science: a Global Perspective", which comprises of chapters written by science communicators in different countries across the world, including Brazil.
Good news: COVID-19 is not the only thing going on right now! Bad news: while we’ve all been deep in the corona-hole, the climate crisis has been ticking along in the background, and there are many things you may have missed.
Covid_19 necessities have become the mother of invention for our Master of Science Communication Outreach (Shell Questacon Science Circus) students as they transform their science shows into online clips.
It is with great sadness that we record the untimely death of Honorary Professor John Gilbert on 9th February 2020. He was an exceptional academic, whose research has inspired countless dissertations, books and papers.