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Dear list members, pasted below the details of a job opportunity at SISSA Interdisciplinary Laboratory -Trieste - Italy. Best regards, Nico Pitrelli ----------------------------------------------------------- Media officer The Interdisciplinary Laboratory (ILAS) of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) has a unique experience in science communication in Italy and has become a true benchmark in this area. Since 1993, SISSA and ILAS have started a very successful Master in Science Communication, which has formed more than 200 scientific journalists, museum curators and actors in the scientific dissemination field and created a sound network among Italian and European professionals. Two years ago, ILAS has also started the first Italian PhD course in Science and Society. ILAS is now seeking two media officers to work on a European project entitled "Brains in Dialogue: Brain Science at the service of European citizens" (BID). The project aims at building an effective dialogue among key-stakeholders in a crucial area of health advancement: Brain Science, and in particular Predictive Medicine, Brain Imaging and Brain Machine Interfaces. All social actors interested in the advancement of medicine will be involved in order to raise a concrete discussion among scientists, clinicians, pharmaceutical companies, health operators, patients' associations, experts in ethics, legal and social issues dealing with those topics. This will be done by organising a series of workshops and open forums in different European countries, building a press office and establishing and maintaining a website hosting a blog and a radio and TV-web activity. The roles will include liaising with the different stakeholders and the media at the European level, building and managing a Press office and developing an interactive website. In particular, the Press Office will act as a contact point between the European media and the stakeholders in the different fields: it will be responsible for the public relation and the dissemination of the activities carried out within the BID project and for the management of the scientific manuscripts and articles published by the European press. It will also produce text and audio-visual material for the media and educational material for the general public. A new website entirely dedicated to Predictive Medicine in Brain science, Brain imaging and Brain machine interfaces will be created to provide easy access to the material and to promote the continuation of the dialogue among the different stakeholders. The ideal candidate should: - be a native English speaker or have an excellent knowledge of written and spoken English; - hold a degree and ideally a Master or PhD in science communication, psychology, sociology or history of science; - have a sound experience in science communication to the general public, the scientific community or the media; - have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and experience of working collaboratively with a wide range of organizations and audiences; - ideally have some experience in the preparation of audio-visual material; - have an interest in neuroscience. The post holder will be joining a team of young researchers and science communicators who are active on different science and society issues. The position will be for three years with an indicative starting date on the 1st February 2008. For more information please contact Nico Pitrelli ([log in to unmask]) or Chiara Saviane ([log in to unmask]) or send your CV and cover letter to make an application. _________________________________________ SISSA-International School for Advanced Studies MCS-School in Science Communication ICS - Innovations in the Communication of Science Via Beirut 2/4 - 34014 Trieste, Italy +39-040-3787462 +39-3391337950 [log in to unmask] http://people.sissa.it/~pitrelli/ ********************************************************************** 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com 4. Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html 5. The psci-com gateway to internet resources on science communication and science and society can be found at http://psci-com.ac.uk 6. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] **********************************************************************