Creating audience personas
This coffee break, create personas to define the target audience for your science communication project.
Sharing science on social media
If you’re thinking of using social media as part of your science communication project, here are a few tips to get you started.
Science videos
This coffee break, look at a few science videos to get an idea of the different ways you can use this medium to share science.
Pint of Science
Pint of Science is a grassroots organisation that hosts talks by scientists in public settings such as pubs or cafés.
Science Songs
This coffee break, explore the vast collection of educational science songs – or research how to write your own.
Science communication
Science communication is a broad, catch-all term that can describe a large number of ways by which science is communicated. Usually it’s focused on sharing science with non-experts.
Evaluating science communication projects
Evaluating your public engagement projects will give you useful data to demonstrate that you were effective in sharing your science.
Fill in a public engagement impact grid
This coffee break, fill in an impact grid to figure out the aims and objectives of your public engagement project.
Exploring the #scicomm hashtag
This coffee break, explore the #scicomm hashtag on Twitter to find out what other science communicators are talking about.
The science of science communication
Science communication is not just an activity for scientists, but the science of science communication is being studied as its own academic field.