Thanks for that, and to all the other people who sent me links to their
guides.
One very useful link even pointed me at something that I wrote a while back
and that I had not added.
I have added all the earlier ones to the page:
http://www.absw.org.uk/media_guides.htm
Will add the new ones soonest.
I must say that I am surprised to see so many "competing" guides out there.
For example, several research councils have them.
Having talked to young researchers about this, I know that some subjects
pose particular issues. Animal experimenters for example, have to be
careful.
But I still find this duplication of effort to be yet another symptom of the
failure of the research community to come together and save money by doing
PEST stuff collectively. Isn't that why the government urged them to create
things like RCUK? (I know for a fact, he told me so, that "de-duplication"
was in the mind of the Director General of the Research Councils who forced
RCUK on the Research Councils.)
An intelligent response would be for RCUK to create a "working with the
media" guide and for individual RCs to add subject specific extras.
Actually, this was probably the motivation behind the guide that I wrote for
what was then the PEST bit of DTI/OST. While that document is probably not
longer relevant, apart from the neat cartoons from the late lamented David
Austin, it gives an idea of what might work.
Generally, duplication seems to be the name of the game in PESTilence. It
was on thing that COPUS helped to avoid. Time to revive it?
_______________________________
Michael Kenward OBE
Have words will travel
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From: psci-com: on public engagement with science
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Advice to scientists who want to work with the media
Michael,
NERC have produced a 'Science and the Media' guide, available to download
from here:
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/publications/guidance/sciencemedia.asp
I am trying to build a up a list of online resources online at
http://tinyurl.com/biocrc. The focus for this online resource centre (part
of an
EU-funded project) is biodiversity and 'nature'-related science, but I am
linking
to general science guidance as well. If it's OK with you I'd like to include
a link
to the online resources you are building up.
If you are any other readers can suggest relevant material I can include,
that
would be great.
Thanks
Andy
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