The Science, Health, and Data Communications Research Group invites you to our Spring-Summer 2021 research series. These talks are open to the public, and encompass topics on representations of women scientists in the media, health inequalities and COVID-19, how comics are used for health messages, and how politics drives decisions around health and science.
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SHDC-RG is an emerging interdisciplinary, cross-faculty group seeking to explore the ways in which specialised knowledge and information is communicated to the public, including policy-makers and front-line workers, and how mass communication (such as journalism and entertainment media) conveys and represents these areas to audiences.
“We’re saving rich white guys’ history?”: Women scientists, new and imagined pasts, and narratives of science on screenDate: Wednesday, 24 February 2021, 3-4pm GMT |
COVID-19, Health Inequalities, and the Politics of DataDate: Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 3-4pm GMT |
Utilizing temporal framing as communication strategies to promote health behaviorsDate: Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 3-4pm GMT |
Misinformation about COVID-19 and what to do about itDate: Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 3-4pm GMT |
Visual metaphors of ‘frozen’ time in autobiographical comics about depressionDate: Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 3-4pm GMT |
Exploring cartoonists representations of the coronavirus pandemic: a cross national study of Australia, South Africa, and the UKDate: Thursday, 20 May 2021, 3-4pm GMT |
TBADate: Wednesday, 26 May 2021, 3-4pm GMT |
The cost of ideologically driven political decision making in a pandemicDate: Wednesday, 16 June 2021, 3-4pm GMT |
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