From jenni at econnect.com.au Sat Feb 14 07:46:06 2009 From: jenni at econnect.com.au (Jenni Metcalfe) Date: Sat Feb 14 09:19:22 2009 Subject: [PCST] Register to attend the first Hot Air Communicating the Science of Climate Change symposium in Perth- March 24 Message-ID: <20090214074250.1BA46438F4E@mailout1.pacific.net.au> Dear Colleagues, Australian Science Communicators (ASC) are hosting three symposia - Hot Air: Communicating the Science of Climate Change The first symposium is in Perth on Tuesday March 24 and will be focusing on Communicating the Science of Climate Change in a sceptical world. Dr Carmen Lawrence (ex WA Premier and Federal MP), will be talking about stimulating behaviour changes through communication. Panels of science communicators and scientists will be discussing the challenges and opportunities for communication. Panel speakers include climate scientist, Dr Graeme Pearman, science communicator, Simon Torok, science journalist, Carmelo Amalfi, and meteorologist/communicator, Clare Mullens. Australian Media Science Centre CEO, Susannah Elliot will lead a discussion about identifying credible experts for shaping media messages. UNSW's Will Rifkin will be training local science communication students to facilitate and record the symposium's small group discussions, which aim to identify best practice strategies, tips and examples for communicating the science of climate change in a sceptical world. ASC will publish the results of the small group and plenary discussions online and in print form after all three symposia. This process is being sponsored by the NSW Department of Environment & Climate Change. We welcome your participation in this symposium, which is also part of the Greenhouse 2009 conference. We can only take a maximum of 120 participants in this symposium, so please register soon. Click below to find out a summary of the event. At this site, you can also look at the full program for the event and register online: http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?i=d13c8b11-f023-4d2d-9e97-08 6ff195c530 ASC members can register to attend this symposium for A$150 if they register by the end of February. Non-ASC members can register at a cost of A$250 by the end of February. I look forward to seeing you there. Please contact me if you have any questions. You can read more about all three symposia on the ASC website: www.asc.asn.au Jenni Metcalfe Director Econnect Communication PO Box 734 South Brisbane Q 4101 Ph. 07 3846 7111; 0408 551 866 jenni@econnect.com.au www.econnect.com.au Subscribe to Econnect's free monthly e-newsletter on our website. From Helen2.Featherstone at uwe.ac.uk Thu Feb 19 15:05:32 2009 From: Helen2.Featherstone at uwe.ac.uk (Helen Featherstone) Date: Thu Feb 19 22:25:23 2009 Subject: [PCST] Evolving Science Communication symposium - application deadline next week Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting The deadline for applications to attend the Evolving Science Communication symposium is fast approaching. If you haven't already (and many have) get your application in before 9am, 27 February! Evolving Science Communication: learn, adapt, collaborate 26 & 27 March 2009 The symposium will be a meeting ground for academics and practitioners in the field of Public Engagement with Science and Technology. The symposium will explore key issues facing the sector including: transferability, sustainability, demonstrating impacts, sharing knowledge and collaborative working. The discussions and ideas generated during the day will be collated and distributed after the event in the form of an edited report. Places are very limited and as such applications will be restricted to two participants per institution. The organising committee will be selecting delegates to maximise diversity and experience across the participants, please take this into consideration when completing the form. Please note the deadline for applications is 9.00am, 27 February. This event is being held over 26 and 27 March, 2009 at the Watershed Media Centre, Bristol and is supported by the Wellcome Trust. For further information, go to http://scu.uwe.ac.uk/index.php?q=node/182 Helen Featherstone, PhD Research Fellow Science Communication Unit School of Life Sciences University of the West of England Frenchay Campus Coldharbour Lane Bristol BS16 1QY http://scu.uwe.ac.uk/ This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found From A.Anderson at plymouth.ac.uk Tue Feb 24 12:14:52 2009 From: A.Anderson at plymouth.ac.uk (Alison Anderson) Date: Thu Feb 26 05:32:28 2009 Subject: [PCST] Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication Message-ID: <1038F6B357C5004FA619C32FB3DB99574957190BE5@ILS130.uopnet.plymouth.ac.uk> Thought some of you might be interested in the following new book: Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication Alison Anderson, Alan Petersen, Clare Wilkinson and Stuart Allan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) ISBN-10: 0230506933 ISBN-13: 978-0230506930 http://us.macmillan.com/nanotechnologyriskandcommunication http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=277172 Drawing together insights from media studies, sociology and science and technology studies, this book offers a novel analysis of the early framing of nanotechnology and makes a fascinating and timely contribution to debates about the public communication of science. 'Nanotechnology, Risk and Communication' is one of the first major studies of media coverage, policy debates and public perceptions about nanotechnology, one of the fastest growing areas of scientific innovation in the 21st Century. Drawing on data from two of the first studies of nanotechnology communication in the UK, it contributes important new empirical and conceptual analyses of the relationship between scientists and the media in communicating controversial new technologies, and charts new ground in a field of growing scientific and media interest. Table of Contents: List of Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Reporting Science 3. Risk Society and the Media 4. News Coverage of Nanotechnologies 5. Nanotechnologies, Public Knowledge and the Media 6. Scientists' and Policymakers' Representations of Nanotechnologies 7. Communication about Nanotechnologies in the Future Notes References Dr Alison Anderson Reader School of Law and Social Science Faculty of Social Science and Business University of Plymouth Plymouth PL4 8AA UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 23 32 34 Fax:+44 (0)1752 23 32 01 Email: aanderson@plymouth.ac.uk Web: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/aanderson