I presented a little paper the other day that was a brief introduction to my research (PDF). There’s not too much gobbledygook in there as it’s written for a general reader. And it’s only 2000 words.
Tag Archives: sci-comm
What I want to do
No absurdist black comedy here, no self-referential meta-games, no antitheistic polemics. This is actually a sincere post, summarising what I’ve really been thinking about for five years and what I want to work on for at least the next five. Continue reading What I want to do
Science Communication: Hopeless?
Last year my colleague (and — I suppose — friend) Mathew McGann and I participated in the Canberra focus group for the Australian Science Communicators (ASC) audit of how the discipline is doing in Australia. The results of this audit can be found here.
Mat and I put forward the views that we’ve been debating among ourselves for years. No doubt those views will continue to change as we learn more, but at the moment I think I can summarise what we see as the problems with science communication (SC) with a few questions which don’t seem to be answered at the moment. Continue reading Science Communication: Hopeless?