Hi all,
I gave a talk on climate change recently to a WI group and they were great -
very interested, good debate afterwards - although no cake!!
Kathy
Kathy Maskell
Walker Institute for Climate System Research
Communications and publicity
0118 378 7380
www.walker-institute.ac.uk
Agriculture Building
Earley Gate
University of Reading
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Sent: 08 October 2011 10:45
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Women's Institute audiences
In my personal opinion WIs are some of the most receptive audiences that I
talk to and I love'em. I always say yes to their invites and i give the
talks for free in my local area.
The two drawbacks are your expanding waist line, as you are force fed cake
and biscuits, and having to judge competitions.
I once chose the wrong knitted figure and massively offended the president
who clearly thought she should have one. I was also accused from the back
of the hall of "being into women wearing uniforms" and this was all before
the talk began, so beware!
Graeme
> I would second this. My mother used to run the science committee for her
> county's federation of WIs and they were always looking for speakers as
> there was a ready, interested audience.
>
> On 7 Oct 2011, at 15:08, jenny koenig <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> If any scientists are looking for an audience for a talk or
>> demonstration I can thoroughly recommend getting in touch with your
>> local Women’s Institute. I have done a number of talks for local WI
>> groups in the last few years and they are very appreciative and
>> interested and keen to get scientists to speak.
>>
>> Go to their website and get the contact details for your local
>> federation who draw up a speakers list each year. I found that I was
>> initially asked to pay to be included on their speakers list but once I
>> explained that I was talking on behalf of a charity (at the time I was
>> funded by a medical research charity) they waived the fee. (I think
>> sometimes they get people to speak who then want to sell them things and
>> then they ask the speaker to pay).
>>
>> Just recently I gave a 30min talk on the history of asthma medicines
>> explaining how and why the herbal medicines used a hundred years ago had
>> been replaced by the inhalers of today. The 30min of discussion that
>> followed touched on lots of related areas including homeopathy, side
>> effects of drugs and plant poisons to mention just a few.
>>
>> I really enjoyed myself and thought others might be interested.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Jenny
>>
>>
>> Dr Jenny Koenig
>>
>> Science Education Consultant
>>
>> Science ETC
>>
>> Web: www.sci-etc.co.uk; biomaths.wordpress.com
>>
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>>
>> Twitter: SCIENCE_ETC
>>
>>
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