I'd have to mention executive TV producer, Duncan Dallas, sadly no longer with us and his leadership of the ITV science programme department, based in Leeds.
Duncan pioneered patient power, long before the internet with shows such as "Don't Ask Me!" or "Where There's Life" with Dr Miriam Stoppard. A live audience was able to challenge doctors, scientists and academics, rather than being told stuff.
These shows would command audiences of 9-10 million between the soaps, spanning the 70s to the early 90s.
Duncan recruited young production talent, some of them research scientists tempted away from the lab to the shiny TV studio.
If anyone ever wants an entertaining talk about those heady days and what they led to, we've recently created an illustrated lecture, having once been part of Duncan's team. Paul Bader went on to create many hours of science programming for Screenhouse Productions after the department closed down, making much loved, popular science shows with fun demonstrations and builds, with Dr Adam Hart-Davis, such as "Local Heroes" and "Science Shack".
We're still going, with popular science and history films for e.g. the BBC1 "One Show" and even film in colour!
Best wishes,
Barbara
CEO
Screenhouse
0113 200 7041
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It would be interesting to pin down when it actually started to be called Sci Comm. I have been doing this for nearly 30 years and it wasn't called that when I started, it was called 'Public Understanding of Science'. My guess would be around the time the Imperial College course started, which is about the earliest thing I can recall being badged 'science communication' with it really taking off post-Jenkin when things clearly moved on from the Bodmer paradigm.
Otherwise I would say that the first hands-on science centre in the UK was a landmark of major importance. There is a bit of debate about who was the first to open in around 1986, but the Ontario Science Centre Circus appeared at the Science Museum as a Launchpad precursor in 1982, and at the British Association Meeting in Norwich in 1984 Richard Gregory and Steve Pizzey showed the first home-grown UK hands on exhibits in a tent, making it the direct precursor of the Exploratory, At-Bristol, Inspire, The Observatory and the Discovery Dome, as well as an indirect stimulus for all the others
IAN
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Hi there,
We're asking and discussing with our #scicomm masters students this week what key moments in the history, politics and future of #scicomm might be...
We had the Bodmer report from Sam Illingworth - what would yours be...?
Feel free to tweet your moment @scicomsalford my key #scicommhistory moment is... (and the year) plus a weblink if there is one.
We'd would love to hear from diverse and unusual perspectives - thinking from the public and scientific perspective or somewhere in between...
We'll share the timeline back... and hopefully start a debate about it...
All best,
Erinma
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