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Words and labels and ambiguity

Posted by on Jul 10, 2009 in Daily Stuff | 7 comments

This Tuesday I went along to the Occupational Psychology/Organizational Behaviour catch-up day at Birkbeck and experienced the luxury of a full day noodling around new research concepts and the thrill of hearing the word ‘critical’ from someone else’s lips. It was an interesting mixture of heavy content and some of the worst Powerpoint I have seen.   Some of the standouts were actually the Masters projects, rather than faculty. the stand-out talks Diane Burns presented a nice project based on discourse analysis, looking at the meaning of ‘collaboration’ in a...

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Communicating science: some highlights from the BSA conference, part 1

Posted by on Jun 24, 2009 in Communication, Daily Stuff | 1 comment

I just spent 2 days at the British Science Association’s Science Communication Conference.  I haven’t been to this particular shindig in quite a few years; it’s quite a mixture of folk: academics, science popularisers, PR officers, evaluators, artists, you name it.  Five highlights: 1. Tackling obesity through an evidence-based campaign The ‘Behaviour and Choice’ plenary examined the ‘Change4life’anti-obesity campaign, with input from the Department of Health (who commissioned loads of research), the MRC Human Nutrition Research centre (who...

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