I'm not sure that Fame Lab is encouraging 'innovative' science communication
- it seems to be more about finding people who are good at public speaking
and could do a slot at the Cheltenham Science Festival, or possibly on TV.
It's being dubbed the Pop Idol of Sci Comm.
Rachel
on 16/11/04 10:03 am, Lianne Sallows at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> What about this?
> www.famelab.org
>
> Sorry if someone here has already mentioned this but I have recently deleted a
> number of past posts.
>
> Lianne
> www.seekscience.org
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>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jonathan Tedds [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: 26 May 2004 11:23
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [PSCI-COM] Awards and encouragement
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> Is it just me or do many of the current funding and award schemes as
>> typically posted on psci-com, for example, reward those that have
>> *already* significantly distinguished themselves rather than encouraging the
>> vast majority of practising scientists and communicators who would wish to?
>> I recognise that in reality it becomes a difficult job to decide who should
>> and shouldn't receive such funds/awards without some distinguishing
>> mechanism and rewarding success in this regard is in itself desirable! But
>> when you see recipients of e.g. NESTA dreamtime awards who already have
>> science/art books in print at time of application and so forth it can seem
>> rather daunting.
>>
>> So perhaps an annual open forum could be created where anyone can come for a
>> day and present their raw ideas for innovative science communication to a
>> panel and then be invited back if warranting further interest and hence a
>> further investment of time and effort on behalf of the applicant? This then
>> does not involve an excessive time investment in the initial stages.
>> Eventually a limited number of applicants might be offered financial
>> assistance/secondment and advice having sufficiently convinced the judges.
>> By the way, I apologise if such a forum already exists!
>>
>> I think the problem for many practising scientists is that the usual
>> combination of work and family responsibilities make it extremely difficult
>> to put into action many of the good ideas we might have. You feel you might
>> jeopardise your current career (where there is always that pressure to do
>> your job well and write up and publish ever more while on short term
>> contracts) if you devote the significant effort required to invest in
>> serious science writing. On the other hand just a small amount of
>> encouragement from your peers might make all the difference. Perhaps the
>> best will always find a way but I believe we can definitely encourage more
>> to try?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jonathan
>>
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