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Recent Posts
- Conference Report from the EU Cities and Science Communication Conference – science policy recommendations and how they can be achieved
- Beatrice on public engagement and the importance of networking
- Notes from the World Cafe session — final thoughts
- Marcos Perez on the value of networks
- Strengthen science citizenship – CASC policy recommendations
Tag Archives: communicating science
Notes from the World Cafe session — final thoughts
In the World Cafe session delegates split into groups small groups focusing on topics that they were especially passionate about and wrote thoughts on large sheets of paper. You may have to click through and view large versions of these … Continue reading
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Tagged communicating science, engagement, hard to reach groups
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Policy recommendations for promoting evidence based research
Following on from the discussion yesterday about ways of promoting evidence based research, the discussion group talked about the ideas further and picked out which ones they felt most strongly about putting forward for recommendation. After deciding which themes were … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, communicating science, eu science policy, European Union science policy, final recommendations, improving skills, policy recommendations, promoting evidence-based research, public engagement, public understanding of science, schools, science education, science in the media, science policy, social engagement, universities
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Michaela Zaludova of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic on the value of the CASC Network
Michaela was keen to get across how useful the network built up around CASC had been. It helped them develop new work on communicating Geosciences – Volcanoes are interesting – and their work will continue in the coming year.
Things to consider when organising science outreach activities
At the start of the project partners shared their existing experience and expertise, and produced a list of critical success and failure points to inspire and direct the development of science communication projects. They include points in relation to the … Continue reading
Ideas on policy to Champion Evidence-based research
The group discussed policy ideas that might champion evidence-based research. Whether or not to widen the question to include concepts of trust was tackled early on: “is the problem credibility?”. I was felt that the issue of “experts” was crucial: … Continue reading
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Targeting hard-to-reach groups – Work Package Three discussion
This session brings the members of each work package together to share their progress and learning and prepare a presentation to share the purpose, activity and learning from the work packages. You can listen to some fab feedback given to … Continue reading