Adding Maths And Statistics To The Industry Equation MEDIA RELEASE June 8, 2010
ADDING MATHS AND STATISTICS TO THE INDUSTRY EQUATION
Prof. Geoff Prince, Director of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI), welcomed today’s announcement by the Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Research, Richard Marles, that will place young researchers with mathematical and statistical skills into Australian […]
Free ANZAAS talk Melbourne Wed 16th June 6:30pm
All welcome, no booking needed
At: Gene Technology Access Centre, 1H Royal Parade, Parkville
Free drinks and pizza after the talk
“Photonics for a sustainable future”
Professor Min Gu Professor of Optoelectronics Centre for Micro-Photonics Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences Swinburne University of Technology
The award of the 2009 Nobel Prize in […]
Hello Julian,
It’s great to hear about the results you’re getting with this method for measuring public attitudes. It sounds like a useful tool for doing what we are all keen to see more of: impact of science communication efforts.
Your response about usual lack of budget for evaluating communication is a key consideration. In the wake […]
Hello all,
Does anyone know of any (recent) survey data that asks Australians whether they trust scientists, esp in comparison to other professional groups?
Kind regards, Nancy
Assoc Prof Nancy Longnecker
Coordinator, Science Communication Program Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences, M011 The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley, WA 6009
ph: 61 8 6488 3926 […]
Dear Ascers,
I’m writing to announce the winners of Fresh Science 2010 and to invite you and your colleagues to meet them tomorrow, Monday, as they talk about their discoveries over a drink at the pub: Duke of Kent, 293 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, 7pm Monday 7 June.
This is a public event, anyone’s invited.
Science performer Chris […]
We do it everyday… so we may as well be better at it! We’re talking about improvising. A skill that helps you express yourself, be creative and communicate better.
Join ASC and Reid Workman from Impro ACT for a fun, challenging and active impro(visation) workshop.
The workshop will introduce you to the activities of impro(visation) (also known […]
Posted on behalf of David Satterthwaite, ScienceNetwork WA Editor:
From: David Satterthwaite [mailto:david.s@scitech.org.au]
Full agreeance with Julian with his world-class POV – but I would suggest broadening the perspective beyond the notion of having figurative editors publish figurative stories. As a figurative editor myself, the issue is really one of audience, not gatekeeper at the end of […]
Responding to Carols very valid point about how we measure the effectiveness of science communication, one reason we dont is that we are seldom given enough budget to do so properly. The budget rarely covers the communication itself, let alone in-depth impact assessment.
That said, let me outline two methods I have found to work.
At CSIRO […]
I will have to side with everyone on this one* — a ‘world class’ discussion, if I ever saw one. (*What else would you expect from a middle child?)
It sounds like every media release is written to pass through multiple filters — gatekeepers inside the institution, in the media, and in the reading audience.
Compounding the […]
Julian is ‘on the money’, as usual and this is no surprise. He comes out of ‘the real world’ i.e. having worked as a working journalist. Many science communicators, as scientists first and communicators/writers/journalists second lack a fundamental understanding of how the media really works. Although much of science is about proving theories, simply putting […]