Association of British Science Writers
Wellcome Wolfson Building
165 Queen's Gate
London
SW7 5HD
Tel: 0870 770 3361
absw"at"absw.org.uk
These pages were designed, well, cobbled
together, by Michael Kenward on behalf of the ABSW.
| |
|
|
Doing it in public
The rise of the Public Engagement with
Science and Technology (PEST) business has prompted a number of
organisations to create handbooks and guides on how to communicate
science to the public. Some of these documents naturally go into the
ways of working with the media. |
|
|
COPUS |
Copus
- the Science Communication Partnership, formerly known
as The Committee on the Public Understanding of Science-has
published a series of guidebooks under the banner
Sharing Best Practice. |
|
|
STEMPRA
|
The Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine Public Relations
Association (STEMPRA) don't just have a catchy name, lurking
on their
web site they have an on-line compendium of
"practical advice for science
communicators". |
|
|
ESRC |
The Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC) isn't a mainstream science research council, but it
does support researchers who want to communicate the results of their
work. The ESRC has produced
a
set of documents on different aspects of working with the media.
These may be aimed at social scientists, but many of the messages are
the same for other research activities. |
|
|
OST
| At some time or another, most science
writers are asked "How do you go about writing for the press?"
Indeed, some people make a nice living revealing our trade secrets to
scientists. Well, the Office of Science and Technology (OST) in the UK has
made it a bit easier by publishing Going Public: An Introduction to
Communicating Science, Engineering and Technology. Even better, the
OST has posted the document on its
WWW
site.
Going Public also has advice for
scientists who want to get involved in other activities that take
science to a wider audience, through talks, for example, or working with
museums.
There are also details of organisations and resources that could help
anyone wishing to go public.
The document came about as a result of a recommendation in the
Wolfendale
report.
Before anyone asks, the author of this
document was Michael Kenward, who also happens to maintain this site.
|
|
|
