Research, teaching and talking about science
LECTURER/SENIOR LECTURER IN SCIENCE COMMUNCATION Science in Society Group, Faculty of Science The Science in Society invites applications for the position of Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Science Communication. The successful candidate will have a PhD in an appropriate humanities or social science discipline, relevant publications in refereed journals and books, teaching experience at […]
It’s July! Over half way through 2016, and it’s been a busy time. Rebecca has launched a new book Dispatches from Continent Seven and Rhian has grown her engagement team for the Deep South National Science Challenge. BOOK LAUNCH Rebecca’s new book Dispatches from Continent Seven: An Anthology of Antarctic Science was launched in March […]
Ashleigh Young and Rebecca Priestley are teaching CREW352: Creative Science Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters again this year. Past students have included undergraduate science and humanities students, experienced writers and journalists, environmental advocates and practising scientists. Students on the course have written engaging non-fiction stories about science and had these stories published in […]
Following Rebecca and Cliff’s successful trip to Antarctica in December 2014, the Science in Society team have been working hard to put together a new fully online course called ‘Antarctica Online’. The course features lectures that were filmed on the ice and examines contemporary Antarctic scientific research, placing it in a wider scientific, historical, social and […]
With the benefit of some fun and challenging mentoring from Joanna Goven (see our reflexive scientist post) Rhian and I have been getting all reflexive about our own practice and reflecting (yes, there is a difference) on the science communication ecosystem in New Zealand. We were therefore delighted to be asked to contribute to the special issue […]
I’m pretty excited about this – Rebecca and I just published our first paper in social-science speak with our co-author, Joanna Goven, who is well-established in this field. Much of it is spent talking about how we (sciencey folk) don’t understand social sciencey speak and therefore ignore it (which, we argue is not a good thing. Once […]
For the last two years we (Rhian and Rebecca) have been getting by on a lot of adrenalin and with the support of an army of awesome tutors: but now we have new courses to launch and new plans to hatch and we need someone else to join our small, dynamic team. This is an 18-month […]
Venue: Victoria University of Wellington Date: 23-24 November 2015 2015 is a significant year for New Zealand science history. It is 150 years since James Hector arrived in Wellington to set up many of our national science organisations and 100 years since Ernest Marsden arrived in Wellington. In 1865 Hector was appointed head of the […]
Cliff and I are back from the ice, and have started editing our field footage and putting our lectures together. Thanks to a fabulous video camera (Canon XF100) and some incredible locations (and hopefully some interesting commentary from us) it’s all looking really great. One of the only problems I’ve noticed so far, is that […]