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New EURAXESS Smart Talks podcast!

🚨 New Podcast Episode!

🎙️ Let’s Get Science Out of the Lab! with Dr. Marina Joubert
In this inspiring episode of EURAXESS Smart Talks, we chat with one of Africa’s leading science communicators, Dr. Marina Joubert. She shares her journey from the lab to the public sphere and offers practical advice on how scientists can build trust, fight misinformation, and make their work more visible and impactful.

💬 Topics include:
✅ Models of science communication
✅ Trust and distrust in science
✅ Communicating uncertainty and complexity
✅ Tips for researchers to engage with the public

🎧 Listen here 👉 https://www.buzzsprout.com/1998474/episodes/18099203

📚 Tons of resources and training links in the episode notes!



Newsletter to subscribe to (lots of resources and jobs in scicomm)
• The Scicommer: https://thescicommer.substack.com

Resources
• Quality and Effectiveness in Science Communication (QUEST) - https://questproject.eu/
• Observatory for open and outstanding science communication (ENJOI) https://enjoiscicomm.eu
• Science communication and sensemaking (RETHINK) https://www.rethinkscicomm.eu/
• A resource page from the HSRC: https://hsrc.ac.za/home-page/science-in-society/useful-links-on-science-communication/
• A legacy page from a recent (2024) conference on communicating discovery sciences (Stellenbosch) - https://www.discoveryscience.co.za/

Companies who offer science communication services and training (there are many more!)
• Jive Media Africa https://jivemedia.co.za/
• Animate Your Science https://www.animateyour.science/
• Econnect https://www.econnect.com.au/

Join this Network – they offer many resources and networking opportunities:
• https://www.pcst.network/
• PCST YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/

Diamond, open-access journal – research and practice insights – JCOM
https://jcom.sissa.it/
Highly recommended scicomm articles
• Science communication: a messy conundrum of practice, research and theory
https://jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JCOM_2107_2022_C07/
• Why facts don't change minds: Insights from cognitive science …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320722004396
Great reads on The Conversation
• Five golden rules for effective science communication – perspectives from a documentary maker
https://theconversation.com/five-golden-rules-for-effective-science-communication-perspectives-from-a-documentary-maker-210399
• Not just talk: how dialogue can help address complex problems
https://theconversation.com/not-just-talk-how-dialogue-can-help-address-complex-problems-256825

Online training (most of these are free, or at least partly free)
• Designing Effective Science Communication (Coursera) - https://www.coursera.org/learn/designing-effective-science-communication
• Science Communication Lab - https://sciencecommunicationlab.org/science-communication/
• Greg’s free science communication training (YouTube videos) – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD160RWuGai9oUnAVRq-GD2njEo1XHadF
• The art of science communication (not free, but affordable) - https://www.asbmb.org/career-resources/communication-course
• Science communication and public engagement (FutureLearn) - https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/science-communication-for-researchers
• Science communication training academy (Animate Your Science) – some free content - https://www.animateyour.science/training
• Science communication (EdX) - https://www.edx.org/learn/journalism/israelx-science-communication
• How to communicate scientific uncertainty (Oxford) - https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/public-engagement/latest/free-short-online-course-how-to-communicate-scientific-uncertainty
• Art of Science Communication - https://www.nucats.northwestern.edu/training/science-communication-course.html
• Online course on science communication (Tresca) - https://trescaproject.eu/online-science-communication-course/
• Effective science communication (Nature) – paid, but some bits free - https://masterclasses.nature.com/effective-science-communication/25452242

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Funding Granted for Analysing US Expansionism in the Arctic Research Council Faroe Islands has granted funding for a Policy Paper on US expansionism in the Arctic and the future of the Danish Commonwealth. A te...

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Funding granted for nine research projects The Programme Committee for Research Funding has granted a total of 9.2 MDKK for 9 research projects in 2025, 5 of these are PhD projects. 6 Project L...

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Karin Habermehl-Cwirzen, PhD in Physics, is originally from Germany but has studied and worked in several Nordic countries and is now also a Swedish citizen. She moved to the Faroe Islands in August 2023 to work as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the Faroe Islands.

“I think research careers are more competitive abroad which can sometimes make collaboration difficult to impossible. In the Faroe Islands there is a greater flexibility and for someone like me who values collaboration it is a rewarding environment”, she says.

Read more on euraxess.fo here:
https://www.euraxess.fo/faroe-islands/news/karin-habermehl-cwirzen

Karin Habermehl-Cwirzen Karin Habermehl-Cwirzen is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the Faroe Islands

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