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During last week’s British Science Association’s Science Communication conference, one of the many networking activities was the appearance of a Lonely Heart’s board. This wasn’t a specialist dating scheme for scientists, but sought to make connections around communication and science.

Mainly, these are aimed at PhD students/Early Career Researchers, and can potentially provide great opportunities to develop your public engagement activities, which in turn can contribute to enhanced research and improved skills.

Sis@britishscienceassociation.org is looking for researchers and is offering training on science communication and social impacts of research

Tom.Horner@britishscienceassociation.org is offering volunteering opportunities with the British Science Association branches and organising events.

Robin@sciencemediacentre.org is offering volunteering opportunities/internships at the Science Media Centre (typically 4 weeks in a busy press office) for people with a science background looking for media experience.

Alexa.Mills@esrc.ac.uk is looking for 450 1st year PhD students to speak and inspire at the ESRC/DTC conference in September on impact, online research methods, open access data or quantitative methods.

C.H.Packman@exeter.ac.uk is looking for a partner to work on an ESRC Knowledge Exchange project bid working with schools – ideally researchers with science and social science expertise in the life sciences, especially medical sociology, health and reproduction.

F.Swain@rss.org.uk is looking for post-doc scientists to speak at training workshops for journalists and press officers.

Farrah.nazir@britishscienceassociation.org is looking for festival assistants at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen.

If you plan to follow any of these up, please do drop redwards@bournemouth.ac.uk a line. You might like to attach the relevant image if you plan to follow up the original contacts to jog their memory!

4 Responses to “Public engagement opportunities arising from the British Science Association’s Science Communication conference – for scientists and social scientists”

Jonny Branney 9:40 am, May 25 '12

Some fantastic opportunities. Many thanks for posting these and making me realise how useful and important the BU Research blog is!
Becca Edwards 12:16 pm, May 25 '12

Thank you for the feedback Jonny! It is always great to know what sort of posts are of most relevance to the research community.
Robin Bisson 3:11 pm, May 28 '12

Thanks for the plug Becca, much appreciated. My email address is actually robin@sciencemediacentre.org, which is admittedly hard to decipher from my illegible scrawl!
- Becca Edwards 3:15 pm, May 28 '12
  
  Thanks for letting me know Robin, I have now updated. I hope that you get some great interns. Do let me know if you have further opportunities arising.