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January 15, 2020 by phildooley

Sponsored networking drinks

Join us for a drink, to discuss the day and get to know your new friends from the speed networking session, and then kick on to the Sustainable Stand Up comedy show. RSVP by 12/2/20 from here.

MC

 

Lee Constable, Science Broadcaster, Network 10

 

Proudly sponsored by a partnership of eight Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence

 

When: Monday 17th February, 5:30pm-7:30pm
Where: Monash MPavilion, 26 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton VIC 3800 Google link
Hashtag:#ASC2020

Networking drinks sponsored by the following ARC Centres of Excellence

 


ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS)


ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO3D)


ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function


ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science

ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging


ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis


ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav)


ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET)

Filed Under: Advanced, Beginner, Career, Day 2, Intermediate

December 24, 2019 by phildooley

The Best Australian Science Writing

The Best Australian Science Writing is an anthology published by NewSouth Press each year. This session would examine how selections are made for the anthology and the importance of collating these stories into one volume.

What will participants gain from attending your session?

Insight into what makes superior science writing; insight into the book-publishing process.

Presenters

Kathy Bail, CEO NewSouth Press

Sara Phillips, Science journalist and editor of 2020 Best Australian Science Writing

Elizabeth Finkel, Science journalist and editor of 2012 Best Australian Science Writing

Dyani Lewis, Science journalist and three-time contributor to Best Australian Science Writing

 

When: Wednesday 19th February, 9:30am-10:30am

Where: Room G03, Learning and Teaching Building, 19 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton
Hashtag: TBC

Filed Under: Beginner, Career, Intermediate, Publics

December 20, 2019 by phildooley

How to Pitch your Science (-communication)

**This is a ticketed event. Public and delegates welcome. Tickets available for separate purchase here. $70 uncatered workshop. **

In this session we’ll develop a verbal pitch to engage someone with your work. Then, when that moment arrives where you have an opportunity, you will be able to do yourself justice and really connect with potential partners and have a constructive conversation.

The course consists of two sessions of 90 minutes. By the end you are on your feet, getting personalized feedback.

Session 1 – How pitching works.

  • Identifying the values and priorities of your audience
  • Mapping your research to your audience’s priorities
  • Building trust and rapport
  • Introduction to pitch structure.
  • Storytelling skills
  • Defining a good outcome.

Session 2 – Presentation and conquering nerves

  • Connecting with people
  • Moving like Darth Vader
  • Opening up your voice
  • Warm ups for combating nerves
  • Presentation checklist

What will participants gain from attending your session?

A pitch that you can pull out whenever you need to quickly impress someone with your efforts, and skills to take all your other presentations to the next level

Workshop facilitator

Dr Phil Dooley, ASC National Secretary and Galactic Commander, Phil Up On Science

Sponsor

Facilities sponsored by FLEET and Monash University Faculty of Science

When: Sunday 16th February, 1:30pm-5:00pm

Where: Room G30, New Horizons Building 82, 20 Research Way
Monash Clayton campus

Hashtag: TBC

Filed Under: Beginner, Career, Day 1, Intermediate, Priorities, Publics

December 16, 2019 by phildooley

Speed networking

Get to know your fellow delegates. You’ll be amazed at the depth and diversity of ASC’s talent pool. Make important contacts, find out about useful organisations and make lifelong friends.

 

Session Producer/Presenter

Phil Dooley, ASC National Secretary and Galactic Freelancer, Phil Up On Science

 

When: Monday 17th February, 4:00pm-5:30pm
Where: Room G31, Learning and Teaching Building, 19 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton
Hashtag: TBC

Filed Under: Beginner, Career, Day 2, Intermediate

November 12, 2019 by phildooley

Where next? Career workshop for science communicators

This is a chance for science communicators to step back and think about their broader career goals, individually and as a community.

Part 1 – identifying the motivations, goals, challenges and dreams of participants

Part 2 is practical – where to start, deciding on the next step, and most importantly connecting with others who share your values or can help you get started.

It concludes by facilitating groups to form and share goals to work towards together.

 

What will audience gain from attending this section?

New insights into their goals as science communicators, and new techniques and networks to help achieve those goals.

 

Structure

A series of about half a dozen questions for people to think about as individuals and then discuss in various groupings.

 

Workshop facilitator

Phil Dooley, ASC National Secretary and Galactic Freelancer, Phil Up On Science

 

When: Tuesday 18th February, 2:00pm-3:30pm

Where: Room G03, Learning and Teaching Building, 19 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton

Hashtag: TBC

Filed Under: 90 minutes, Beginner, Career, Day 3, Intermediate, Policies, Priorities

November 9, 2019 by phildooley

Speed mentoring with successful science communicators

Meet senior science communicators from all parts of the industry and find out their tips for success.

Chat with experienced science communicators  from ABC, Fairfax and Nature, large organisations like Questacon and Universities, successful freelancers, senior ASC figures and more.

In small groups of similar interests you’ll spend ten minutes with a few mentors, getting their thoughts and asking some questions.

Could be the inspiration for your future career!

What will audience gain from attending this session?

Contacts, tips and tricks, career insights, new approaches.

Structure

Ten minute slots with each mentor – 8 or 9 different mentors.

When: Tuesday 18th February, 5:00pm-6:30pm
Where: Monash MPavilion, 26 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton VIC 3800 Google link
Hashtag: TBC

A few words from our sponsor

Merryn McKinnon, Senior Lecturer, Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, ANU

Session Producer

Phil Dooley, ASC National Secretary and Galactic Freelancer, Phil Up On Science

Mentors

Dr Merryn McKinnon has slimed presidents, made children laugh and created programs and events to change ideas and inspire interest in science and its communication. She is now a science communication academic who still practices what she teaches and actively works to contribute tangible mechanisms to enable a truly diverse and inclusive STEM workforce.

Dr Graham Phillips was the host and a producer/reporter with ABC television’s science programme Catalyst for many years, and is currently teaching science communication at the University of Melbourne. He’s also reported science on TV Networks Nine, Ten and Seven, done countless hours of science on radio, written about science for most newspapers in Australia, and had four popular science books published. He started his career as a scientist, with a PhD in astrophysics.

Stephen Oliver is Manager, Documentaries at ABC TV . He’s an award-winning filmmaker turned ABC Commissioning Editor who is passionate about telling meaningful stories with big social impact. His commissioning credits include LOGIE and AACTA-winning War on Waste, series 1 and 2, AACTA, Venice TV and Japan Prize-winning Employable Me and Eureka prize-winning Can We Save the Reef?

Lee Constable is a science broadcaster and host of Network 10’s kids science TV show, Scope. She is also the founder of Co-Lab: Science Meets Street Art where she pairs early-career researchers and PhD students with street artists who create live murals inspired by their work for the public.

Suzannah Lyons is the online science reporter for ABC Science. She has previously worked for ABC Open, ABC Emergency, ABC Health & Wellbeing, Catalyst, and as a science communicator. Suzannah trained as both a chemist and a journalist but found she was better at telling stories than hanging out in the lab. She can still make a mean batch of cornflour slime.

Liam Mannix, is the national science reporter for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. He loves science!

Tilly Boleyn is the Curator of Science Gallery Melbourne. Her interests focus mainly on blurring the boundaries between science, art, design, technology, maths, engineering, large-scale-batteries-powered-by-human-urine and doing things she’s told aren’t allowed. She is a massive nerd who is curious about the world and everything in it.

David Wansbrough started communicating science as a Questacon explainer (way back in the last century) and was part of the Science Circus in 1993. Since then he’s been a bureaucrat in the Australian and New Zealand governments, working on a wide range of topics at the intersection of science and policy: genetic modification, climate change, animal welfare, food safety, and immunisation.

Adam Selinger is the Exec. Director of Children’s Discovery, a social enterprise creating discovery spaces for children and families through playful learning, such as the Early Start Discovery Space at Wollongong University and Little Bang Discovery Clubs run out of public libraries. Prior to this, Adam worked at science centres in Canada and Europe, and science festivals in the UK, South Africa, UAE, Indonesia and China.

Adrian King is a seasoned animation producer, designer, script-writer, science communicator, technologist, marketer, entrepreneur and thinker. He bridges these disparate fields. Ask him anything.

Dr Lisa Bailey is a science communicator who has worked in cultural institutions in the UK and Australia.  At the Royal Institution of Australia she helped design hundreds of science engagement events for communities across Australia, including producing the SCINEMA International Science Film Festival for 3 years.  She’s now at MOD. at UniSA, designing exhibitions for Australia’s leading future-focused museum, provoking new ideas at the intersection of science, art and innovation. She’s ASC National President, too.

Dr Subho Banerjee is the Research Program Director at ANZSOG and works on the interface between academia and public policy practice. He was previously a Deputy Secretary in the Australian Public Service, and has served in a range of strategic policy and program implementation roles spanning economic, social and environmental policy areas. He has also worked as a management consultant in the private sector and for an Indigenous policy thinktank.

Claire Harris is a business owner, writer and innovation advocate. She began her career in fisheries research and now works with innovators in research, technology and sustainability on communication and marketing projects and has recently launched in to social enterprise.

Dr David Robertson is a science communicator and sustainability educator. He’s interested in creative ways to engage people with the big challenges and complex issues of our time. From orchestrating zombie apocalypses and trying to put Vantablack on display, to devising twisted pub quizzes about climate change, and most recently landing in the tertiary education space, he’s always keen to push the edges of practice and coax new ideas into reality.

Dr Jenni Metcalfe has been a science communicator for more than 30 years and has run Australia’s first science communication consultancy, Econnect Communication, for more than 24. She is passionate about communicating science in a way that makes a positive difference to people’s lives and their environment.

Dr Kirsti Abbott is an ant ecologist, science communicator and educator and currently Program Leader of UNE Discovery at the University of New England. She develops and facilitates transformative and playful engagement experiences in STEAM for students and communities in northern NSW.

Dr Sheryn Pitman has a background in environmental management, community engagement, education, creative writing and communication. She works with Inspiring South Australia in science engagement and communication. Her work includes a focus on telling stories of science through the arts. She has also worked with government agencies, with Greening Australia, and as a free-lance creative writer and director, including documentary film, television and radio.

Toss Gascoigne is a visiting fellow at the CPAS at the ANU, and has just finished a book charting the emergence of modern science communication in 38 countries. He is interested in the interface between science and policy, and organised the first Science meets Parliament while working as Executive Director of FASTS (now Science and Technology Australia).

Dr Jen Martin founded and leads the Science Communication Teaching Program at the University of Melbourne. She’s been talking about science on the radio for 15 years, writes a popular science blog and is currently writing a science communication textbook.

Dr Linden Ashcroft is a lecturer, climate scientist and science communicator at The University of Melbourne. Linden shares her love of all sciences on community radio in Melbourne, edits a peer-reviewed journal on scientific data, and her writing was selected for the 2019 Best Australian Science Writing Anthology.

Natsumi Penberthy is an associate editor at Nature Research works with talented writers, illustrators, designers and photographers, and has edited everything from pieces on native Australian sandalwood to the latest in genetic testing. As a writer, she has reported on shearwater hunting by indigenous Tasmanians and the latest developments in the superbugs crisis, among other things

Dr Simon Torok is Director of Scientell, a science communication business specialising in environmental and climate change communication. He has managed communication for CSIRO in Australia and for the Tyndall Centre in England. He has published more than 150 newspaper, magazine and scientific journal articles, and co-authored 19 popular science and climate change books, several of which have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Hungarian.

Dr Michelle Riedlinger has worked as a science communication practitioner and researcher for over 20 years. She has run over 200 communication skills workshops for scientists and she has worked on environmental science communication projects focussed on climate variability, dryland salinity, catchment management, and river health.

Alvin Stone is the Media and Communications Manager for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. Previously he has edited newspapers for Fairfax and News Corp before taking on science comms roles with WWF-Australia, and later as a senior consultant with Primary Communication. He regularly runs communication workshops for researchers across a wide variety of scientific disciplines and has extensive connections into the media and climate science communities.

Clare Mullen works at the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) as a Communication Adviser. She is a meteorologist with a Masters in Communications. Her current role as a content specialist includes presenting BOM Webinars, contributing to script for the Climate and Water Outlook videos, and acting as a BOM STEM Ambassador.​

Dr Cobi Calyx has more than a decade of experience working internationally across science communication, health promotion and environmental governance, with organisations ranging from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to the United Nations. She’s currently a Research Fellow in Science Communication with the Centre for Social Impact at UNSW Sydney.

Cass Rowles a science communicator with a background in biological sciences and community engagement, but now work in the astronomy space as a content creator. She also runs her own business taking reptiles to children’s birthday parties and other events. You might say she has a varied career in sci comm.

Toni Stevens manages communication activities for both the Ecological Society  and Clean Energy Council, from social media and newsletters to websites and media, fundraising and the promotion of awards. She worked for five years at Melbourne science PR firm Science in Public and before that wrote environmental impact assessments at an engineering consultancy.

Damian Harris has delivered science education programs across Far North Queensland, been a communicator for CSIRO and Questacon and is currently the Marketing and Engagement Manager for Griffith University. A career highlight is founding and directing the Scinema International Science Film Festival for 15 years and transitioning the Festival to RIAus.

Aidan Muirhead is a graduate of ANU’s CPAS who  designed, delivered, and coordinated a range of Questacon’s national science outreach programs. She now works at NCI – the National Computational Infrastructure – promoting the value of supercomputers by writing about research, creating conference platforms and social media content.

Dr Janine Young is a freelance science writer and editor, and has worked in various fields of science communication for more than 20 years.

Dr Phil Dooley is a pub science performer, part of a science theatre group, Dramatis scientificae, a regular writer for Cosmos and twice published in the Best Australian Science Writing Anthology. His freelance projects are under the banner of Phil Up On Science and he’s worked on outreach programs at Sydney Uni, at the media office at ANU and as a comms officer at the world’s largest fusion energy experiment, JET.

This session proudly sponsored by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science

Filed Under: 90 minutes, Beginner, Career, Day 3, Intermediate, Policies, Priorities

November 9, 2019 by phildooley

Getting Paid for Scicomm: Free Labour, Fair Wages and How to Ask for Money

Working for experience and exposure won’t keep a roof over your head no matter how much you love science!

How much are science communication skills worth? When is volunteering a good thing? How do you negotiate fair pay for scicomm work? And what effect does free labour have on the science communication sector as a whole?

All these questions and more will be tackled in this panel discussion.

This is the perfect opportunity to ask all those burning questions about getting paid for your scicomm skills!

 

What will audience gain from attending this section?

Participants will gain a better understanding of the benchmarks for how science communication skills are valued in the Australian job market and what their skills are worth. This will also give the audience tools to help them make responsible choices when negotiating payment or volunteering in the science communication space.

 

Structure

This session will be introduced and moderated by Lee Constable.

Matt Nurse will present the results of the CPAS science communication remuneration and skills survey and talk about where the benchmark is for valuing science communication skills in Australia.

A representative of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance will speak on the effect that free labour and the modern media, entertainment and arts landscapes have on the science communication sector.

Jenni Metcalfe (Econnect Communication) and other experienced science communication freelancers will speak about their personal experience in negotiating payment in exchange for science communication work and paying science communicators for their work.

The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions and get practical advice from the panel.

 

Session Producer/MC

Lee Constable, Science Communicator and Broadcaster, Freelance

 

Presenters

Matt Nurse, Masters degree candidate, CPAS, ANU

Jenni Metcalfe, Director, Econnect Communication

Marcus Strom, President MEAA Media and Director of the Walkley Foundation for Journalism

 

 

 

When: Tuesday 18th February, 9:45am – 10:45am
Where: Room G31, Learning and Teaching Building, 19 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton
Hashtag: TBC

Filed Under: 60 minutes, Advanced, Beginner, Career, Day 3, Intermediate, Novel Topic - suits all levels, Policies, Priorities

November 3, 2019 by phildooley

A business model canvas, self-belief and accountability: Useful tools for one journey into scicomm business

Jumping in to business can be exhilarating and terrifying. From freelancing as a side hustle to going into it full-time, there are lots of opportunities for building communication-related businesses. Having a plan for starting is useful to achieve traction as soon as possible. And luckily, there is a lot of good advice freely-available about starting a business. Heart and grit are also elements that come into play for the journey of self-discovery that is launching a business. In this talk, Claire Harris will share some of the tools she’s used (and help she’s needed) to start and run a small scicomm business.

Topics covered:
• Getting started on a business journey.
• How a business model canvas can help you.
• Why you should consider a self-directed (or with a team) business bootcamp
• Why accountability buddies are gold
• Avoiding feelings of isolation and how to keep moving forward.

 

Presenter

Claire Harris, Founder and Marketing-Communication Specialist, Innovate Communicate

 

When: Tuesday 18th February, 11:15am-12:15pm

Where: Room G21, Learning and Teaching Building, 19 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton
Hashtag: TBC

Filed Under: Advanced, Career, Day 3, Intermediate

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