In his article, Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things,
Tim Requarth suggests that Scientists need to take a different approach to communicating the findings of their research in order for the public to understand and engage with it in a meaningful way.
If you're studying a science then it might be an interesting read for you, encouraging you to consider how you communicate the key findings of your research and how you might do that more effectively, depending on your purpose and desired outcome. Do you want simply to inform? Entertain? Inspire? Change minds? All of those things?
Requarth, T. (2017) Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things.Slate. Accessed: 27/04/2017.
If you're studying a science then it might be an interesting read for you, encouraging you to consider how you communicate the key findings of your research and how you might do that more effectively, depending on your purpose and desired outcome. Do you want simply to inform? Entertain? Inspire? Change minds? All of those things?
Requarth, T. (2017) Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things.Slate. Accessed: 27/04/2017.
