ASC2020 - 16-19 Feb, Melbourne

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FULL PROGRAM PDF available here [PDF].

POCKET PROGRAM PDF available here [PDF].

Day 1: Sunday 16 February 2020

Pre-conference workshop registration and social details coming soon.

Time Session
9:30 – 17:00

Workshop: Visual storytelling: using your smart devices to create better visuals for science communication
[ticketed event, public and delegates welcome. $140 (uncatered).] Uncatered event.
Venue: G.29, New Horizons Building, 20 Research Way. Google link.

13:30 – 17:00 Workshop: How to pitch your science (-communication) 
[ticketed event, public and delegates welcome. $70 (uncatered).] Uncatered event.
Venue: G.30, New Horizons Building, 20 Research Way. Google link.
18:00 – 23:00 Social: Pre-conference meet and greet for ASC2020 delegates.
Free for delegates, must RSVP.
Platters and a tab on the bar until they run out, and then buy your own.
Venue: Dooley’s Irish Bar, 2077 Dandenong Rd, Clayton
18:30 – 20:30 Social: SciCom Trivia: World’s greatest science communication quiz
[ticketed event, public and delegates welcome. $25 public, free for delegates, must RSVP] Venue: Dooley’s Irish Bar, 2077 Dandenong Rd, Clayton

Day 2: Monday 17 February 2020

Time Session
9:00 Registration Opens ~ Welcome Tea & Coffee [G.41]
9:30 – 10:00 Welcome to Country: Uncle Dave Wandin
Welcome Address: ASC President, Dr Lisa Bailey
Welcome from our hosts: David Robertson, Monash Sustainable Development Institute [G.31] #M1
10:00 – 10:15 Opening Address: Victoria’s Lead Scientist, Dr Amanda Caples [G.31] #M1
10:15 – 11:30 Plenary: Can we save our grandchildren? Inspiring change in an age of denial and despair [G.31] #M1
11:30 – 12:00 Morning tea [G.41]
12:00 – 13:00 Research impact and impact evaluation: [G.01] #M2

  • Strategies for measuring social impacts of science communication
  • Communicating research for impact: making a difference in northern Australia

Environment: [G.02] #M3

  • Understanding how nature works: five pathways towards a more ecologically literate world
  • Building ecological awareness through ArtScience communication

Multimedia: [G.03] #M4

  • Animation strategy for next level science communication

Comedy: [G.21] #M5

  • Sustainable Stand Up: Cultivating laughter to save humanity

Diversity & Inclusion: [G.31] #M6

  • How the Australian Academy of Science measures and applies Diversity and Inclusion
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch [G.41] Business Networking [G.31]
14:00 – 15:30 Scicomm around the world: [G.01] #M7

  • Creativity in Science Communication: What we can learn from 23 of the world’s leading science organisations
  • Breaking down the wall of science communication

Diversity & Behaviour change: [G.02] #M8

  • Is it working? Development and testing of a National Evaluation Guide for STEM gender equity projects
  • Changing environmental behaviours, using ABC’s War on Waste as a case study

Environment: [G.03] #M9

  • The Trees Speak, and people listen
  • Do common names influence willingness to conserve threatened species?
  • How you can change the world with science communication… on zero budget

History: [G.21] #M10

  • The emergence of modern science communication: the Book
  • Forgotten heroes of science communication: Maynard Shipley (1872-1934)

Behaviour change: [G.31] #M11

  • Workshop: Applying Behaviour Change to Science Communication: Lessons from BehaviourWorks Australia
15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon tea [G.41]
16:00 – 17:30 Speed networking [G.31] #M12
17:30 – 19:30 Social: Networking drinks 
Proudly sponsored by a partnership of eight Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence
Venue: Monash MPavilion, 26 Ancora Imparo Way #M13
19:30 Social: Delegate dinner and drinks [TBC] #M14

Day 3: Tuesday 18 February 2020

Time Session
8:30 Registration Opens ~ Welcome Tea & Coffee [G.41]
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome and house keeping [G.31] #T1
9:10 – 9:40 Plenary – Do we still need the media? [G.31] #T1
9:40 – 9:45 Break
9:45 – 10:45 Humanity: [G.02] #T2

  • Showing the human side of science
  • Philosophical musings on why we seem unable to “wake up” to climate change

Multimedia: [G.03] #T3

  • Using social video to amplify science communication (and have fun doing it) [Part 1 of 2]

Research Impact: [G.21] #T4

  • Stories of how scientists achieve social impact

Job market: [G.31] #T5

  • Getting Paid for Scicomm: Free Labour, Fair Wages and How to Ask for Money
10:45 – 11:15 Morning tea [G.41]
11:15 – 12:15 Trust and Risk: [G.01] #T6

  • “Trust me – I’m from the government”

Engagement: [G.02] #T7

  • Breaking the rules / transforming the future

Multimedia: [G.03] #T3

  • Using social video to amplify science communication (and have fun doing it) [Part 2 of 2]

Business of scicomm: [G.21] #T8

  • A business model canvas, self-belief and accountability: Useful tools for one journey into scicomm business
  • Selling science communication: how to convince an organisation that science communication really matters
  • Science internship attitudes: interns vs supervisors vs organisation

Research: [G.31] #T9

  • Radical Ideas Hour: New Decade, New Voices
12:15 – 12:20 Break
12:20 – 13:00 Plenary: Broadcasting for Impact
Stephen Oliver, Manager, Documentaries – Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) [G.31] #T10
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch [G.41] 13:15 Australian Science Communicators Special General Meeting [G.01]
14:00 – 15:30 Learning through play: [G.01] #T11

  • Play: Fuel for the curious mind
  • Bringing Science into the Home

Effecting change: [G.02] #T12

  • Participatory science communication for creating needed societal change

Careers: [G.03] #T13

  • Where next? Career workshop for science communicators

Coastal scicomm: [G.21] #T14

  • Coastal Science Communication
    • Coastal resilience on the front-line of climate change: visual communication
    • Tweed Sand Bypassing – evoking an emotional response in coastal science communication

Evolving scicomm: [G.31] #T15

  • The Trust Crisis: Reconceptualising our Roles
15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon tea [G.41]
16:00 – 17:00 Plenary: Effective engagement with Policy Makers
Dr Subho Banerjee, Research Program Director, Australia & New Zealand School of Gov’t (ANZSOG) [G.31] #T16
17:00 – 19:00 Speed Mentoring with successful science communicators
Proudly sponsored by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS)
Venue: Monash MPavilion, 26 Ancora Imparo Way #T17
19:00 – 21:00 Evening tour and reception at The Australian Synchrotron
Proudly sponsored by ANSTO
Venue: The Australian Synchrotron, 800 Blackburn Road, Clayton

 

Day 4: Wednesday 19 February 2020

Time Session
8:30 Registration Opens ~ Welcome Tea & Coffee [G.41]
9:00 – 9:25 Welcome and house keeping [G.31] #W1
9:25 – 9:30 Break
9:30 – 10:30 Research: Health Communication [G.01] #W2

  • Are we Foot and Mouth Disease ready?
  • Neurogastronomy, Nutrition and Nigella: Changing the Narative in Public Communication of Nutrition
  • Expertise and communicating about infectious disease: uncertainty and inclusivity in discourse of veterinarians and horse owners living with Hendra virus

Journalism and Publishing: [G.03] #W3

  • The Best Australian Science Writing

Multimedia: [G.21] #W4

  • How to prepare a killer animation brief for science communication in less time

Creativity: [G.31] #W5

  • Breaking Business as Usual: Using creativity to imagine purpose and practice in the Radical Decade [Part 1 of 2]
10:30 – 11:00 Morning tea [G.41]
11:00 – 12:00 Research: Communication Delivery Methods [Part 1] [G.01] #W6

  • Towards a new model of science communication
  • A case study investigating the communication process of scientific research in news media
  • Selecting the right tool for the job: communication technologies for dispersed multinational scientific teams

Accessibility: [G.02] #W7

  • Communicating science content to blind and low vision audiences through multi sensory means [Part 1 of 2]

Design thinking: [G.03] #W8

  • Delving deeper with design thinking [continues to next session]

Safety: [G.21] #W9

  • Using behavioural insight strategies to improve the effectiveness of community engagement programs for bushfire safety

Creativity: [G.31] #W5

  • Breaking Business as Usual: Using creativity to imagine purpose and practice in the Radical Decade [Part 2 of 2]
12:00 – 12:05 Break (no break for those attending “Delving deeper with design thinking” or the double research session, see the session page for details: Communication Delivery Methods)
12:05 – 12:50 Research: Communication Delivery Methods [Part 2] [G.01] #W6

  • How a climate change sceptic politician changed their mind
  • Experimenting with plastic avoidance media message
  • An in-depth study of Orphan Black and its influence upon audience members in relation to their perception of science

Accessibility: [G.02] #W7

  • Communicating science content to blind and low vision audiences through multi sensory means [Part 2 of 2]

Design thinking: [G.03] #W8

  • Delving deeper with design thinking [continues from above session]

Engagement: [G.21] #W10

  • Towards Citizen Art/Science – How Unique Partnerships Can Increase Scientific Engagement
  • Novel and risky: designing for young adults

Communicating complex information in an emergency: [G.31] #W11

  • Taking action – changing the way we communicate air quality data that affects peoples health
  • Communicating effectively during an emergency response: Townsville Floods, 2019
12:50 – 13:50 Lunch [G.41] 13:00 – 13:45 Monash campus sustainability tour #sustainability
[meet at the Northern Entrance to the Learning and Teaching Building (facing the Menzies lawn area) at 1pm]
13:50 – 14:35 Research: Communication Strategies to Mitigate Risk [G.01] #W12

  • Communication practices of government organisations for environmental health risks from chemical pollution: A scoping review
  • Effective communication of uncertainty for hazards and risk: identifying decision-relevant information 

Community and web: [G.02] #W13

  • Developing a community of science communicators for early career scientists
  • Supercomputer Communication – A Website Redesign Case-Study

Participatory scicomm: [G.03] #W14

  • We are not experts: Co-creating content with audiences [Part 1 of 2]

Creativity: [G.21] #W15

  • Unlocking creativity to engage with wider audiences [Part 1 of 2]

Evaluation: [G.31] #W16

  • Are we making progress as Australian Science Communicators? [Part 1 of 2]
14:35 – 14:40 Break
14:40 – 15:25 Health comms: [G.01] #W17

  • Zantac headlines are a greater health risk than Zantac tablets
  • Social implications of knee-jerk prescribing practices in response to opioid science communications in Australian and the USA

Impacting the decision makers: [G.02] #W18

  • Making impact with science in the Board and Executive rooms

Participatory scicomm: [G.03] #W14

  • We are not experts: Co-creating content with audiences [Part 2 of 2]

Creativity: [G.21] #W15

  • Unlocking creativity to engage with wider audiences  [Part 2 of 2]

Evaluation: [G.31] #W16

  • Are we making progress as Australian Science Communicators? [Part 2 of 2]
15:25 – 15:55 Afternoon tea [G.41]
15:55 – 16:25 Conference wrap-up interactive [G.31] #W19
Informal post conference drinks [TBC] #W20

 

More information

Please direct questions about the program to program.committee@asc.asn.au.

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