Tagged: engagement

Tackling the hard issues – trust and relationships - Genomics Aotearoa

Genomics Aotearoa • Sep 15, 2020 •

• engagement

By Claire Grant, Genomics Aotearoa Communications Manager Community consultation is becoming an increasingly important aspect of research programmes in New Zealand, and with that comes the art of relationship building. Engagement between scientists and user-groups is certainly nothing new. But as stakeholder involvement becomes more of a requirement for science, it becomes harder to define what constitutes effective consultation, and … Read More

Telling Your Science Story - Guest Work

Guest Author • Feb 26, 2018 •

• comedians,
• communications,
• Doctors,
• drive,
• engagement,
• mathematicians,
• neuroscientists,
• passion,
• performing,
• physicists,
• podcasts,
• Science and Society,
• social scientists,
• stories,
• Story Collider,
• storytelling,
• writers

Guest post by Ceridwyn Roberts My dad is a scientist – a nuclear chemist – the sort of guy you’d expect to find at the beginning of a superhero story. Short, glasses-wearing, geeky. He had a radiation monitoring badge that he sometimes forgot to take off when he left the lab and I’d examine it, hoping to see his powers … Read More

How scientists should communicate their work in a post-truth era - Guest Work

Guest Author • Apr 04, 2017 •

• balance,
• Brexit,
• engagement,
• false balance,
• journalism,
• march for science,
• outreach,
• post-truth,
• Science and Society,
• science communication,
• trump

By Andy Miah, University of Salford It’s not an easy time for scientists to talk to the wider public. The US president, Donald Trump, has called global warming “bullshit” and a “Chinese hoax”. In the UK, leave campaigner and MP Michael Gove famously declared that people “have had enough of experts”. But now UK MPs have published … Read More

How we relate – What is meaningful engagement? - Ice Doctor

Victoria Metcalf • Oct 13, 2016 •

• #SciCommNZ,
• community engagement,
• education,
• engagement,
• scicomm,
• science communication,
• Twitter

In a post-normal science world how we engage is fundamentally important. Next Tuesday Twitter users will have the opportunity to discuss meaningful engagement in a combined #scicommnz #scichatnz chat. SciCommNZ chats, using the hashtag #scicommnz, are where a community of scientists, science communicators and science educators meet on Twitter once a month. The chat aim is to … Read More

Unlocking a whole lot more Curious Minds - Curious and Curiouser

Victoria Metcalf • May 20, 2016 •

• curious minds,
• engagement,
• outreach,
• science communication,
• Science in Society

These are exciting times for public science engagement in New Zealand. Last week 44 projects were successful in receiving a total of $2 million in the 2016 funding round for Unlocking Curious Minds. The Unlocking Curious Minds contestable fund in official language: supports innovative projects that will excite and engage New Zealanders, particularly young people (aged 18 years and under), … Read More

The problem with science communication - Physics Stop

Marcus Wilson • Feb 24, 2016 •

• engagement,
• Science,
• science communication

Yesterday I was part of a very interesting workshop on Science in Society, in Auckland. There was a plethora of good examples of science communication discussed – including forest restoration on the East Coast, biological control of pests in vineyards in Canterbury and improvement of health outcomes for Native Americans in Montana. For me, it was clear … Read More

A learning system for science engagement: Part 1 - Curious and Curiouser

Victoria Metcalf • Feb 05, 2016 •

• citizen science,
• education,
• engagement,
• Environment,
• Learning,
• participatory science,
• public engagement,
• Science

Science engagement is currently a hot socio-political issue with extensive Government investment and interest. But it is not a new issue, and there is a lot that has been done in the past that we should be learning from and building on. A guest post by Dr Cathy Buntting, Senior Research Fellow, University Waikato. This is an educator’s perspective on the … Read More