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Communicating your research to the public

Event Date:
Thursday, August 9, 2018, 2:15 pm
Location:
Don and Marion McDougall Hall
Room:
328
Traditional scientific training typically does not prepare scientists to be effective communicators outside of academia. However, funding agencies and research institutions are increasingly encouraging researchers to extend beyond peer-reviewed publishing and communicate their results directly to the greater public. As Albert Einstein once wrote: Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. This workshop will examine some real-world examples of communicating scientific research results to formal and informal audiences, with discussions around what makes for compelling scientific communications and how to make your research results resonate with the public.  All are welcome to attend this free workshop by Dr. Adam Fenech and Dave Atkinson, which is a part of the 2018 UPEI Multidisciplinary Graduate Research Conference.