The Science, Health, and Data Communications Research Group invites you to our Autumn-Winter 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.
Register for events on EventBrite.
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.
Covid Comics & Public Health Messaging on InstagramDate: Wednesday, 13 October 2021, 12-1pm UK time |
Healthcare Workers and Online Shaming During COVID-19Date: Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 12-1pm UK time |
Generic visuals of Covid-19 in the news: invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiterationDate: Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 12-1pm UK time |
TBCDate: Wednesday, 24 November 2021, 12-1pm UK time |
The Making of Collective Politics through Feminist MediaDate: Wednesday, 1 December 2021, 2-3pm UK time |
Humanising Public Health & Challenging Infodemics: The potential of web-comicsDate: Wednesday, 8 December 2021, 2-4pm UK time |
TBCDate: Wednesday, 15 December 2021 |











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