Tell me what you think. No, really.
I went to a terrible conference some time ago. From the first talk, it was dull and worthy. During the coffee breaks, I talked to other people, who were also driven to comment on the sheer awfulness of the event. If you looked at the public response to this event - the Twitter coverage, for example - you would never guess that many of the delegates felt that the entire day was a waste of time.
Read MoreQuick overview of Research 2010
I attended the MRS Conference in London this week, invited by Ray Poynter to perform (there’s no other word for it!) a five minute piece at Tuesday’s Ideas Rush. I have not been to this conference for absolutely ages. Met quite a few people from former lives and it was great to see them (shout-outs to Anna Cliffe, Yvonne Burr, and Ann Morgan), not mention putting faces to more of the Twitter names. There was more going on than I could possibly catch, and the parallel sessions meant that I ended up running from one room to another to try to catch things. There was a...
Read MoreWords and labels and ambiguity
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...
Read MoreCommunicating science: some highlights from the BSA conference, part 1
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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