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Author Archives: Clare Wilkinson

Evolving science communication: theory and practice … what happened next?

Posted on Wednesday, 9 April 2014 by Clare Wilkinson
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Dr Clare Wilkinson

On Friday 4th April 2014 the Science Communication Unit (SCU), at the University of the West of England, Bristol held its second Evolving Science Communication conference. I talked about the run up to this conference in a previous post.

The conference celebrated 10 years of science communication programmes based at the SCU and it was lovely to see that around a fifth of delegates on the day were our graduates.

The programme was packed with interesting plenary talks, vibrant presentations and quick paced PechaKucha chats. The Science Communication Unit @SciCommsUWE Twitter feed captures some of the online discussion, and we’ve also created a Storify of the day.

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Evolving Science Communication: theory and practice

Posted on Tuesday, 1 April 2014 by Clare Wilkinson
Photograph of Dr Clare Wilkinson

Dr Clare Wilkinson

On Friday 4th April 2014 I’ll be involved in hosting the second conference in our Evolving Science Communication series. You can find details of the first, held five years ago, in this report.

This conference celebrates 10 years of science communication programmes based at the Science Communication Unit (SCU), University of the West of England, Bristol. We’ve been delighted to work with our graduates to design a conference programme that we hope appeals to them, as well as to others currently working in and/or researching the ‘field’.
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Posted in Communication, Events, Publications | Tagged conference, engaging research, NCCPE, PER Catalyst, public engagement, Public engagement with research, science communication, University of the West of England

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