[ 7 February 2010 7:00 pm to 10 February 2010 10:00 pm. ] ASC presents a panel discussion about how bushfires have been communicated and reported. Featuring a bushfire scientist, a Walkley-award winning journalist, a radio journalist and a media manager, this event will explore reflections on the connections or conflicts between high emotions and the logic of science during bushfires
Stem Cells at the Pub
[ 22 November 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The Australasian Society for Stem Cell Research and ASC presents a panel discussion with Australia’s pioneering stem cell scientist Professor Alan Trounson, now President of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine and other scientific and media experts. Free public event. Sunday 22 November, 7pm, Canberra Labour Club.
Request for tender for information outreach program
The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) seeks to engage a tenderer to undertake the provision of a TechNyou Outreach Program (TYNOP) to deliver balanced and factual information on nanotechnology and biotechnology and other enabling technologies to the Australian public.
ASC National Conference 2010: Call for papers
Your opportunity to present work, identify areas that need enquiry, investigate how to improve practice, and strengthen practitioner-researcher collaborations. Deadline 7 December 2009.
Science communication qualifications at UWA
Science communication courses on offer at the University of Western Australia
Evidence-based science communication workshop, 10 June 2009
Dr Carol Oliver advocates using social media to reach more of today’s audience.
The importance of evidence
There are many ways of communicating science. But what evidence do we have that any of it is effective in improving the understanding of science? The answer is very little. When it comes to engaging students or the public in science, we may be doing no more than moving deck chairs on the Titantic.
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Saul Griffith Talks Informally
VIDEO: Saul Griffith talking about HowToons at O’Reilly’s Ignite ETech conference back in March of 2008.
