Can the National Museums of Scotland be included in the A to Z please?
National Museums of Scotland has a number of sites across Scotland
including the Museum of Scotland and the Royal Museum both on Chambers
Street in Edinburgh.
As Science Communication Manager, I was project manager for the Connect
gallery at the Royal Museum which is a new hands-on science and
technology gallery for families and schools (www.nms.ac.uk/connect).
In addition to Connect, the National Museums of Scotland have a large
Natural History department with extensive collections and exhibitions.
Many of these will be re-vamped as part of the Royal Museum Project
(http://www.nms.ac.uk/royalmuseumproject).
We also have the Concorde Experience at our Museum of Flight which
includes the aircraft itself, an exhibition and a family science show
about flight (www.nms.ac.uk/concorde).
By appointing a dedicated Science Communication Manager, National
Museums of Scotland have shown themselves to be dedicated to delivering
and increasing our science communication activities. We are keen to
reach out to other professionals in the UK and abroad to explore
partnership working opportunities.
Yours,
Lyndsey
Lyndsey Clark
Science Communication Manager
Science & Technology
National Museums of Scotland
Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF
Tel: 0131 247 4455
Fax: 0131 247 4312
http://www.nms.ac.uk/connect
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Hello everyone,
The British Council has asked us at SPRU to create a guide to highlight
UK
excellence in science communication. It differs from other guides in
that it
is meant to highlight the best of what is happening in the UK. We'd love
to
have your views on an early draft.
At the moment, we believe the guide is a useful one. But it is still
very
much work-in-progress, and we need to know more about what you would
like to
find on a resource such as this.
The website highlights:
* some of the UK academic departments where science communication
research
is done
* a list of courses in science communication, with links to their web
pages
* information about some of the mentoring and fellowship opportunities
in
science communication
* details of some of the science weeks and festivals that take place
during the year
* sources of funding for science communication
and other science-communication related events and resources.
Our task now is to make the resource more useful to international
science
communicators. We would like to highlight the UK resources, departments,
journals, events and courses that you rate highly. We would be very
grateful
if you could tell us what you think of the resource. Perhaps you would
like
to add your department to the list? Or maybe you are aware of another
science communication journal to our list of academic publications?
If you would like to suggest changes to current text (perhaps you would
like
a different sentence describing the activities of your own department?)
then
please do get in touch.
The draft website is available on a temporary hosting at
http://www.jennygristock.com/scicom
Past drafts of the website focused heavily on the history of science
communication. We have since switched focus, so this context is
currently
absent. To remedy this, we are currently working on some concise text to
provide some background, which can then lead into more information about
the
dialogue activities of various kinds that are taking place today.
The guide is being created by SPRU for British Council Science in
Manchester.
With best wishes,
Jenny Gristock
SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QE
Telephone 01273 876711
Website www.sussex.ac.uk/spru
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