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• Date of publication Jun 03, 2024 Category: Practice Insight

  GlobalSCAPE: successes and failures in connecting with science communicators around the world

  by Joseph Roche , Mairéad Hurley , Eric A. Jensen , Luisa Massarani , Pedro Russo , Aoife Taylor

  The GlobalSCAPE research project was tasked with engaging people working in science communication to better understand their views of the field. While being a European-based research project, GlobalSCAPE aimed to connect with science communicators across the globe. This practice insight paper reflects on the lessons learned from GlobalSCAPE, the successes and failures, and what might be done to continue the work of global science communication research projects. It is hoped that such learnings will be of broad interest to research and practice communities grappling with ways to fund and support science communication around the world.

  Volume 23 • Issue 04 • 2024 • Special Issue: Science communication for social justice

• Date of publication Jul 20, 2020 Category: Conference Review

  Engaging migrant and refugee communities in non-formal science learning spaces

  by Autumn Brown , Joseph Roche , Mairéad Hurley

  In this era of pandemics, economic crises and civil unrest, science centres and museums have an opportunity to become truly relevant resources to society. This paper summarises a number of critical lessons from the PISEA International Symposium, a conference held the at the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art in Vienna from the 17th–18th of October 2019. The purpose of this event was to share, learn, and discuss ways in which engagement with migrants and refugee populations might be improved within informal science learning spaces. Issues around integration, inclusive art-science practice, and shifting institutional policy and language were all explored. This paper also calls for the committed reform of informal science spaces, and a renewed commitment to responsive, equitable, and inclusive practice.

  Volume 19 • Issue 04 • 2020