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Public Engagement
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- Yateendra Joshi
- May 23, 2024
This article is a summary of why you should try to engage with policymakers and how you can make a real impact.
- David Burbridge
- February 22, 2023
This paper is a collaborative effort with a fantastic team of researchers looking at a dual function methyltransferase which can modify two different types of…
- Sabrina Pei Qin
- January 22, 2020
The only way to ensure that people understand science is to communicate it in a way that enables them to absorb it easily and comprehend how it impacts them. A 1985…
- Kakoli Majumder
- December 25, 2017
The concept of open access is evolving and taking the form of “research communication.” Today, it is not enough to make research findings and data freely available after…
- Satyajit Rout
- November 27, 2017
A general view about researchers is that they are a recluse community that seldom leaves their labs and the ivory tower. This has changed over the past few years. Across…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- August 22, 2017
Success in academia is increasingly tied to public engagement, and scientists have to engage with the media to promote their research and explain its significance to the…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- July 1, 2016
Time and again, the media has been accused of distorting the image of science. But is bad journalism the only reason behind the mistrust in and misrepresentation of…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- January 29, 2016
Science has seldom been a topic of drawing room conversations. The general public tends to believe that science is a complex subject that is best left to its…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 10, 2015
Public investment into scientific R&D has plateaued across the world, and this transition seems to have affected basic research the most. It it were the year 1960…
- Satyajit Rout
- July 29, 2014