Category: Blog
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Moving from research career into science writing: lessons from Ireland and UK
By Tom Kennedy Researchers sometimes wonder if they should, or even could, start broadcasting or writing about science. Is it possible to take leave of the lab and become a science communicator? This was the question uppermost in the minds of science postdocs at Queen’s this month when they gathered to hear what a panel…
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Workshop on science journalism and media careers in Belfast
British and Irish science journalism associations are organising a joint workshop on careers in science media in Belfast on the 19 October 2017. The half-day event is organised by Queen’s University Centre for Experimental Medicine PDC, in association with Irish Science and Technology Journalism Association (ISTJA) and Association of British Science Writers (ABSW). The entry…
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Croatian University Pamphlet Accuses Journalists of Destroying The National Order
By Mico Tatalovic A worried science journalist from Croatia A worrying development in Croatia, the EU’s newest member state, highlights a creeping and overlooked trend of making journalists feel unwelcome and unsafe by some of the country’s top academic elite. Several professional journalists in the country cover science and higher education policy, often critically –…
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Challenges. Reflections after the conference
By Agnes Kittel, member of the Club of Hungarian Science Journalists If there is something which is common in the life of every being living under the Sun, it is for sure that pain belongs to it. The X Congress of the European Pain Federation /EFIC/ was held in Copenhagen between 6-9 September 2017. This…
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GRANTS FOR SCIENCE JOURNALISTS
The European Commission’s Science and Knowledge Service, the Joint Research Center, organizes its annual conference on 26 September around the topic of “(Scientific) Evidence for policy in a post-fact world”. The conference aims to discuss the interaction between science and policy in light of the post-fact phenomenon, involving renowned scientists, experts, journalists and media professionals…