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UWA Science Communication

Locality: Perth, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 6488 2508

Address: 39 Myers St 6009 Perth, WA, Australia

Website: study.uwa.edu.au/courses/master-of-science-communication

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25.01.2022 If you have high schoolers in your networks who might be interested in finding out more about careers in science communication, please pass this on! ^HB

24.01.2022 What makes us THIS happy? Now having Commonwealth-supported (HECS-HELP) places in our Master of Science Communication! For more information on the course and fees go to https://www.uwa.edu.au//co/master-of-science-communication

23.01.2022 Next week UWA is having a series of postgrad information evenings. If you'd like to hear more about our Master of Science Communication then join Sam and team via Zoom on Wednesday 16th of September at 7.00pm. Register here: https://uwa.zoom.us/webi/register/WN_ElaPTayyTtGkbjwcZl8ZdQ #scicomm UWA School of Biological Sciences

22.01.2022 Science communicators - you are needed - now more than ever! (And how awesome is it to hear a world leader acknowledge the work we do). Keep up the great work! ^HB... [via @Sheril_ on Twitter: https://twitter.com/i/status/1277830448081776645]

21.01.2022 On Saturday our Masters students had a little gathering to celebrate the end of the year. Weilin made these awesome SCOM-themed cupcakes! We wish Weilin and Tina all the best and hope to see them next year at the official UWA graduations. And feel free to share any examples of SCOM-themed baking! (PS I ate the deficit model - HB).

20.01.2022 What do Australians think about science related issues? Here's some interesting new research from the Pew Research Center ...

16.01.2022 SCOPE group at the University of Sydney are running a survey about online events for this year’s National Science Week. If you presented a Science Week event online, we want to know about your experience! SCOPE group are open researchers so you'll be helping create a national data set for online science engagement. Complete the presenter survey here: http://bit.ly/sciweekpresenter... Contact [email protected] if you have any questions

16.01.2022 For anyone interested in #CitizenScience, the Australian Citizen Science Association have an amazing series of online events coming up in October, and also a la...udable 'pay what you can afford' model (from $0 - $20). Get your tickets here: https://citizenscience.org.au/citsciozonline/ #CitSciOzOnline See more

15.01.2022 Continuing the preview of our Semester 2 units, here's one we are very proud to share! SCOM5309 Citizen Science is a brand new unit in our Master of Science Communication and can also be taken in other postgraduate science courses. Here's Sam to tell you a bit about it ... https://youtu.be/uq2T9d0dCmU

14.01.2022 Our friends at the Science Communication Society UWA are having a workshop next week ...

13.01.2022 UWA's Virtual Open Day is THIS SUNDAY! Pass it on to any prospective uni students in your network!

13.01.2022 Current SCOM students - the UWA Science Communication Society is having their sundowner tomorrow evening .... (^HB)

12.01.2022 It's National Science Week! We're pretty sure that many in our SCOMmunity are busy with events and we'd love to hear about it all. Please share links etc in the comments! ^HB

12.01.2022 Communicate to Inspire is WA's premier event for science communication practitioners, researchers, and students. Brought to you by Australian Science Communicators WA, the sixth annual Communicate to Inspire will focus on practical skills-based workshops and the latest research in the discipline. Our keynote address is by Mandy Bamford on Science Communication in Boorna Waanginy (The Trees Speak) at Perth Festival. The rest of the conference will have two strands of workshop...s running concurrently so you can choose the session most relevant to you. Snacks & lunch are provided, finishing up with a sundowner.

11.01.2022 Semester 2 is fast approaching and we thought we might preview some of what's on offer. First is our newly redesigned and renumbered Science Presentations (SCOM3205). This unit would be ideal for PhD students to do as one of their four units and this year it will be entirely online so feel free to pass it on! Here's a bit more on what's in the unit from Dr Sam Illingworth ... ^HB

06.01.2022 Our #SCOM3319 Exhibitions and Interpretation students made an online exhibition this semester that relates to their experiences of social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. To find out a bit more about the context for the exhibition check out the short video below. To see the exhibition, go to: https://www.culturalprecinct.uwa.edu.au/exhibit/2020visions (link also in comments) "2020 Visions (This Too Shall Pass)" was produced in collaboration with the UWA Cultural Pre...cinct, Clarke Earth Science Museum UWA, and the UWA School of Biological Sciences ^HB See more

05.01.2022 Looking to develop your science communication skills over the summer? Applications are now open for ICRAR's summer internship program. Head over to https://www.icrar.org//astrofest-science-communication-in/ for more info ...

04.01.2022 Science communication lessons from around the world ...

02.01.2022 What do we love? Appropriate and free-to-use images! Thanks to Northern Australia Environmental Resources Hub you can now access 100+ symbols and graphics for northern Australia. . . UWA School of Biological Sciences