Hi Neil,
Our recent research paper tackles the process of changing the culture of public engagement in a research laboratory. I will blog about this soon but in the meantime the academic paper is now online. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/30921/
Laura Fogg-Rogers
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1. Experience of the process with getting academic groups to engage with the
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2. Job opportunity: Science Officer - Digital Communications, Royal Botanic
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3. 'Viewpoints' Bringing water research to life along the River Avon
4. Job: Social Media Intern, Guerilla Science, London
5. Training day on fundraising with the Wellcome Trust, HLF, and The Esmee
Fairbairn Foundation
6. New role at Labster based in Northern-UK
7. JOB: media officer (policy and research) at Alzheimer's Society
8. What Science Capital Did Next
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 07:18:19 +0000
From: Neil Stoker <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Experience of the process with getting academic groups to engage with the public
Hi
No doubt this has been covered before, so apologies if it's a repeat, and maybe you could point me to a thread.
I'm interested in the *process* of working with a research group to move into a Public Engagement
- for that group to work out how they would like to engage in a way that
fits with their own personal as well as work interests
- in a way that really gets them to start look differently at their
research, and even change how it is done
I'm assuming that this would be a research group that is open to this, and either doesn't really engage at the moment, or does so in rather traditional ways.
Does anyone here have experience of this? Are there case histories or papers where this has been documented?
Thanks
Neil
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:41:54 +0000
From: Mimi Tanimoto <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Job opportunity: Science Officer - Digital Communications, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Dear all,
I'm writing to let you know about an exciting new sci comm role at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. I would be very grateful if you could please forward details to anybody who may be interested and suitable for the role:
Science Officer - Digital Communications
Closing date 19 March
The successful candidate will join our dynamic Science Education and Communications team based in the Office of the Science Directorate. They will help to deliver Kew's mission through the development and implementation of a new digital communications strategy for Kew Science. They will have extensive experience of planning, creating, commissioning, editing and publishing content for the communication of science across a range of digital media.
More details: https://careers.kew.org/vacancy/science-officer-digital-communications-305771.html
Best wishes,
Mimi
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 10:32:30 -0000
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Subject: 'Viewpoints' Bringing water research to life along the River Avon
Greeting Psci-Commers
List followers may be interested in this series of free public engagement events bringing water research to life along the River Avon. The first event in Bristol was a massive success prompting some great discussion and we have two more to come in Bath and Keynsham.
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'Viewpoints' is a series of three events ahead of Festival of Nature 2017, inviting organisations and residents to consider new water research at University of Bath related to local waterways / River Avon. The events are free, and provide networking opportunities over complementary refreshments with speakers and attendees.
Further information about Festival of Nature is available at www.festivalofnature.org.uk <http://www.festivalofnature.org.uk>
1. Viewpoints Series 1
See images from the first event that took place in Bristol on March 6th:
http://www.bnhc.org.uk/festival-of-nature/waste-water-water-waste/?preview=t
rue#1
2. Viewpoint Series 2
How Water Shaped Bath
March 13, 2017: Guildhall, Bath.
Find out more information and book free tickets at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bath-viewpoints-how-water-shaped-bath-tickets
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3. Viewpoint Series 3
Healthy Water
March 23, 2017. Community Space at the Keynsham Civic Centre.
Find out more information and book free tickets at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/keynsham-viewpoints-healthy-water-tickets-315
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Thanks and very best wishes
Matt
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 10:32:51 +0000
From: Marissa Chazan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Job: Social Media Intern, Guerilla Science, London
Dear all,
Guerilla Science is looking for a Social Media Intern to work in our London office.
This is a 3 month, part-time role that pays the London Living Wage (£9.75 p/h).
The internship provides the opportunity to help expand and develop a brand across digital platforms. The successful candidate will assist with producing a variety of content and help to implement social media campaigns for an exciting program of live events that inspire, challenge and amaze.
Full details can be found on our website:
http://guerillascience.org/hiring-social-media-intern/
Review of applications will start on 22 March, and continue until the position is filled. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
Please share with anyone who might be interested within and outside of the Sci-Comm community.
Thanks,
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:50:51 +0000
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Subject: Training day on fundraising with the Wellcome Trust, HLF, and The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Dear colleagues,
I hope you will find this training opportunity relevant:
Are you working in public engagement in museums, botanic gardens or other heritage organisations and looking for funding to kick-start new activities and inspiring projects?
The Botanic Gardens Education Network<https://bgen.org.uk/> is running the Grow Your Fundraising Skills<http://bgen.org.uk/training-events/events-calendar/#%21event/2017/3/30/grow-your-fundraising-skills-8211-for-gardens-and-other-museums> training day on Thu 30th March 2017, 10:00am-4pm at Chelsea Physic Garden<http://chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk/>, London.
This training day brings together representatives from the Lottery, and Trusts and Foundations to present their funding portfolios and provide top tips for a successful application. You will also hear case studies from botanic gardens on how to identify and approach the right funders, developing long term relationships with funders and planning for your project's fundraising.
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This training day is also relevant for the fundraising staff of your organisations and will provide a unique opportunity to get informed about raising funds and network in the beautiful surroundings of a garden with a great botanical and heritage history.
With best wishes,
Asimina
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 13:22:41 +0100
From: Maaroof <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: New role at Labster based in Northern-UK
Dear all,
We're hiring for a role based in Northern-UK. Although this is not strictly a science communicator role, I started in this type of role (albeit more global), and Science Communication skills definitely can be honed here and make you extremely successful. Now, I'm working on some amazing global-scale projects so there's a lot of opportunity to grow :)
https://www.labster.com/careers/#op-171969-regional-customer-development-manager-northern-uk-
Please get in touch if you'd like to know more.
Cheers
Roof
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 16:37:09 -0000
From: Natasha Neill <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: JOB: media officer (policy and research) at Alzheimer's Society
Hi list members – Jess has asked me to post this message for her, contact details are at the bottom of the message if you wanted get in touch off list with any further questions!
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Hi all,
After a great 18months, I’m moving on from Alzheimer’s Society, which means that my job is up for grabs. This is a really fun role that covers both health policy and research – you’ll be working with on some really interesting proactive campaigns such as the social care campaign, finding ways to promote our research programme and dealing with a very busy reactive press office.
More info is here:
https://alzheimers.livevacancies.co.uk/#!/page/Central-Office-London/Media-Officer-Policy-and-Research--200.html
Any questions should go to Eleanor Green, and I’m more than happy to answer any informal questions about the role and working at Alzheimer’s Society.
Thanks,
Jess
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 17:45:14 +0000
From: Dominic McDonald <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: What Science Capital Did Next
Hi all
Further to the email thread a couple of months back about the Science Capital thing, I've been doing some reading...
I thought I could perform a public service by flagging up a couple of things that I have picked up, that I haven't seen on here before (although I may have missed them, in which case, apologies). The papers are both behind paywalls, I'm afraid: I don't know what we do about that.
On a practical point of view, this 2014 ASPIRES paper reports no significant change in students' attitudes to science in school between Year 6 and Year 9. This goes against what I previously understood to be the case. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09500693.2013.871659
Secondly, and more theoretically, this 2016 paper by Michael Reiss and Tuba Gokpinar is a really interesting way of taking some of the "cultural capital" ideas that underlie Science Capital, and tying them to some work from economics* that allows them to think about how stuff actually impacts real people's real lives. There's some pretty hardcore social theory in there, and so whilst I am tempted to try to summarise the ideas for those who can't access the paper, I fear it would take me longer than it will take you to read the paper. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09500693.2016.1188332
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* by everyone's favourite Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, no less.
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 21:27:30 -0000
From: Michael Kenward <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Report on the need to integrate Social Sciences and Humanities with Science and Engineering in Horizon 2020 | Digital Single Market
Following the recent useful chat on quantum technology, this report may be interesting.
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/report-need-integrate-soc
ial-sciences-and-humanities-science-and-engineering-horizon-2020
To quote the sales pitch:
"New technologies, such as those developed through funding from Horizon 2020, can only be successful if they are fit for market and society. The dramatic scale and pace of technological developments offers tremendous potential, but with these opportunities come new dangers and new responsibilities. This implies that technological innovations need to pay close attention to the social contexts in which they are to be placed.
Moreover, many social innovations require technological development to be successful. Thus, social and technical research need to go hand in hand."
The report itself makes no mention of QT.
My own wrap-up of the sources that people threw into this list is here:
http://michaelkenward.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/who-will-buy-quantum-technology
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MK
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