From jenni at econnect.com.au Thu Jul 2 18:23:13 2009 From: jenni at econnect.com.au (Jenni Metcalfe) Date: Sat Jul 4 01:52:00 2009 Subject: [PCST] Cairo to host World Conference of Science Journalists in 2011 - the DETAIL Message-ID: <003c01c9fb42$3e3565f0$baa031d0$@com.au> WCSJ: Back to the developing world The next World Conference of Science journalists will be held in Cairo, Egypt, following a successful bid by Arab and American science journalism associations. The winners of the 2011 event - the Arab Science Journalists Association and the U.S.-based National Association of Science Writers - will bring the prestigious bi-annual conference to Cairo for the first time. The decision, made by the Executive Board of the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ), was announced on Wednesday 1 July in London, where 900 science journalists and communicators from around the globe gathered. The London event was the 6th World Conference of Science Journalists and hosted by the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW), which won the bid at the previous conference in Melbourne in 2007. The Cairo group won against strong bids from the Finnish Association of Science Editors and Journalists (Helsinki), the Uganda Science Journalists Association (Kampala), and the Kenya-based association, Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (MESHA). All four bidders made a formal presentation before an audience of 50 delegates on Monday afternoon. Pallab Ghosh, the outgoing president of the WFSJ, said the Executive Board was especially delighted that so many of the bids had come from Africa. "It was a difficult decision because all the bids were strong and each had their merits. "However, the factor that distinguished the winning bid was the collaborative effort between the Arab and American associations. We are certain that this will be a fruitful collaboration and that it will lead to yet another successful conference for the Federation." The WFSJ, through its SjCOOP program, has been training and mentoring science journalists in Africa and the Middle East, and 60 took part in the initial program. One of the outcomes of the Federation's work has been the twinning of science journalism associations, such as the Arab and American groups - which gave rise to the collaboration that led to this successful bid. "It's amazing that the Arab association was created in 2004 after the Montreal conference, and in five short years, they have won a bid to host a world conference," added Ghosh. "It demonstrates the effect the Federation is having in strengthening and building science journalism associations around the world." From judyf at egs.com.au Thu Jul 9 05:09:20 2009 From: judyf at egs.com.au (Dr Judy Ford) Date: Thu Jul 9 23:35:53 2009 Subject: [PCST] Re: Help from Science Journalists worldwide Message-ID: <002b01ca0053$6aa31a40$f801a8c0@your59s5u2aj98> >From Dr Judy Ford, Lecturer - Research Education, University of South Australia As part of a Teaching and Learning research grant to help develop new courses, I am trying to discover how journalists access science information and how they think I might best train postgraduate students to communicate with the public. I would greatly appreciate responses from journalists working all over the world as many of my international students will be returning to their homelands where I imagine things are done quite differently from Australia. I would greatly appreciate science journalists taking a few minutes to answer a 10-question questionnaire that is currently located on my personal website http://www.egs.com.au/questionnaire_media.shtml. I would be most grateful if you could take a few minutes to download the questions, complete them and return to me. Please make sure that you indicate the country or countries in which you are working. Thank you. Regards, Judy From h.p.peters at fz-juelich.de Tue Jul 14 08:35:43 2009 From: h.p.peters at fz-juelich.de (Peters, Hans Peter) Date: Wed Jul 15 10:27:45 2009 Subject: [PCST] Vacancy: German science communication research project Message-ID: Dear colleagues, For a collaborative research project investigating the science-media relationship in Germany we are looking for a social scientist or communication researcher - preferable at the post-doc level - who will mainly work on a large-scale online survey of German researchers but also do some face-to-face interviews with Public Information Officers. The project includes collaborations with research teams at the University of M?nster and the Free University of Berlin. Besides the professional skills mentioned in the job description (see link below) we expect German as mother-tongue or at least excellent German language skills in spoken and written. Terms: 24 months, full-time, starting 1 October 2009, salary according to TV?D. Announcement: http://www.fz-juelich.de/gp/index.php?index=63&typ=15&id=2409 For informal inquiries and more information please contact me. 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