ASC2018 - 11-15 Nov, Sydney

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Pre-Conference Activities

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Audience

  • Beginner
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced
  • Novel topic – suits all levels

Format

  • Brainstorming
  • Case studies (sessions containing multiple case studies)
  • Case study (single case study abstract)
  • Crowd-sourced interactive
  • Exhibition
  • Interactive
  • Keynote
  • Lunchtime activity
  • Mentoring
  • Networking – Structured
  • Networking – Unstructured
  • Panel
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  • Play
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  • Poster
  • Pre-conference Activity
  • Presentation
  • Problem Solving
  • Professional Development/Skills Development
  • Research
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  • Strategy
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Session Length

  • 30 minutes
  • 45 minutes
  • 60 minutes
  • 90 minutes
  • 120 minutes
  • 4 hours
  • Full day

Theme

  • 21st century comms: emerging digital, technical and social trends to anticipate
  • Analysing web and social media data
  • Animation
  • Asking good questions
  • Australian science communication and international comparisons
  • Behavioural insights
  • Being critical of published research
  • Bridging theory and practice of science communication
  • Career building advice
  • Career progression – I’ve been in sci comm a long time. Now what?
  • Change agents: Social license to operate, economics and other infrequently discussed challenges to change
  • Citizen science
  • Collaborating with other communicators on big projects (division of responsibility, final authority and more)
  • Comms for enhancing collaboration
  • Communicating with industry for investment
  • Controversial areas (vaccines, climate, GM, stem cells)
  • Crossing borders: comms for enhancing collaboration (inter and trans-disciplinary, cross-cultural and more)
  • Data tells stories: data journalism, mining and contextualising data for insightful comms
  • Developing communication strategies
  • Digital marketing
  • Diversity and Inclusion within Science Communication
  • Economics and other infrequently discussed challenges to change
  • Emerging Digital
  • Enjoying science communication – putting entertainment ahead of education
  • Evaluations
  • Events
  • Fake News and Social Bubbles
  • Freelancing 101
  • History of Science Communication
  • How to find and use influencers/spokespeople/ambassadors of science
  • Image making
  • Infographics
  • International science communication
  • Interrogate the reasoning behind scicomm practices today
  • Knowledge transfer and mobilisation
  • Learning science through play
  • Media landscape matters (engaging with media, pitching to journalists, training scientists to speak with media, tips for gathering photo and video during fieldwork, writing for a lay audience, building up a ‘scientist’s’ brand or public image, how to build a media campaign)
  • More about why: interrogate the reasoning behind scicomm practices today
  • Moving out of your comfort zone!
  • Multicultural
  • Narratives
  • On the ground with communities
  • Participatory science communication
  • Performance and arts
  • Photography
  • Podcasting
  • Poetry
  • Policy and politics
  • Research collaborations
  • Risk comms and behavioural insights
  • Science communication for beginners
  • Science communication for early learners
  • Science communication for gurus
  • Science communication international (examples of research, collaborations, comparisons)
  • Science education and science communication in schools
  • Science education in museums
  • Scientists becoming science communicators
  • Social license to operate
  • Technical and social trends to anticipate
  • Technical communication and implementing style guides
  • The business of running your own business
  • Using knowledge from other areas in sci comm (ie marketing, behaviour change, public health campaigns)
  • Using social science to inform science communication
  • Video production
  • Visualising science in all its forms
  • Working with constraints: bosses, budgets and other career-shapers
  • Writing and editing

When

  • Pre-conference – Sunday 11 November 2018
  • Day 2 – Monday 12 November 2018
  • Day 3 – Tuesday 13 November 2018
  • Day 4 – Wednesday 14 November 2018
  • Post-conference – Thursday 15 November 2018

Still to come:

  • still accepting round two case studies, general presentations, posters. More info…

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