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“Everywhere I go, everywhere I talk to the public, I always find very enthusiastic, very involved people who are really keen to know: what have we learned about our place in the universe.” This is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Roberto Trotta Roberto Trotta is a physicist, a […]The post Speaking to… Roberto Trotta appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

“When you’re dealing with an investor who has no technical background, you still have to be able to explain your product so that they fully understand what they’re getting themselves into, whilst conveying the sense that you also know the technical details yourself. Which can be a fine line and a difficult balance.” This is part of a […]The post Speaking to… Eimear O’Carroll appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

“If you’re going to set up a blog, there is a time commitment to that, to make a go of it you need to give it some energy, thought and time… So you need to think through before you do it, what are you trying to achieve through it?” This is part of a series of interviews with […]The post Speaking to… James Randerson appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

“It culminates in all these children becoming my neurons and controlling me. So when the motor cortex, these kids, vibrate, then I will have to dance!” This is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Lewis Hou Lewis Hou is a neuroscientist from Edinburgh, but when I spoke to him […]The post Speaking to… Lewis Hou appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

“In several countries, research or science is seen as a stand alone activity, and all we have to do is to communicate to other researchers in the same field. Whereas I think in Britain people have really started to open up to the idea that actually we do science for the broader public”  This is part of a […]The post Speaking to… Climate Snack appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

“It’s really hard to engage kids in stem subjects. They immediately turn off to things like science and maths.” This is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Laura Youngson Laura Youngson is one of the founding members, or mothers, of the Lightyear Foundation, an organisation that takes science to […]The post Speaking to… Laura Youngson appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

“The new paradigm is shiftyness. And that’s our premise. Not only will things not stop changing. But the rate of change is only going to increase.” This is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Jeff Howe Jeff Howe, the man who co-coined the term “crowdsourcing” has had many adventures […]The post Speaking to… Jeff Howe appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

“Douglas Adams always talked about that. A funny thing he used to say where “The terrible thing about having a dictaphone as an aid to memory would be that when you press the on button, it has a terrible habit of turning your brain off.”” This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews […]The post Speaking to… Dallas Campbell appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

“Like any bit of PhD research, there is no simple answer!” This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Graham Walker At the Abu Dhabi Science FEstival 2013, Dr Graham Walker is rushing around Abu Dhabi presenting two different shows. One of these shows is […]The post Speaking to… Graham Walker appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

“What we encourage them to do is to take this knowledge and their enthusiasm home….do a dissection at home on the lounge carpet!” This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Professor Mike Bruton At the Abu Dhabi Science Festival 2013, I had the pleasure […]The post Speaking to… Mike Bruton appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

“In a mall there’s shops and what-not, and then there’s these weird bikes and these crazy people in brightly coloured lab coats, but they are still equally excited.” This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Nicola Shepherd The Abu Dhabi Science Festival 2013 is […]The post Speaking to… Nicola Shepherd appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

“When I was a little kid…like four or five years old, I would tell people “One day, I’m going to be a professor of inventions” ….and then for the next kind of 15 years after that I wanted to be a professional footballer.” This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science […]The post Speaking to… Jem Stansfield appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

“I got a standing ovation from a group of people who I hugely respect. And afterwards I thought, I should do more of this because it’s really helped me. And I thought, maybe it could help other people, help understand.” This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. […]The post Speaking to… James Piercy appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

“Rather ironically, if the tools and software that are available now, if they had been available to me when i was making those decisions, then perhaps I would have, actually gone down a different path” This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Laura Wheeler […]The post Speaking to… Laura Wheeler appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

“Open science is science by everybody for anybody.” This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Brian Glanz Brian Glanz works for the Open Science Federation, a group in the US that attempts to break down the barriers that stop everyone accessing science. I met […]The post Speaking to… Brian Glanz appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

“True stories about how science has affected peoples lives.” This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Brian Wecht Stories. Wonderful Stories. We’ve had a few different science communication interviews on Speaking of Science about science, science stories, and science and stories. This podcast is going […]The post Speaking to… Brian Wecht about The Story Collider appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

“You need to get science into the deep down and dirty discussion areas, so like politics.” This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Alok Jha In this interview Alok Jha, science correspondent at the Guardian, gets frank about his opinion on science communication and […]The post Speaking to… Alok Jha appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

  This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Laurie Winkless As the Nobel Prizes are announced this week, I thought it would be a great idea to put this interview up! Laurie Winkless is the editor for Nobel Media. Having literally only just moved […]The post Speaking to… Laurie Winkless appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

This is a feature podcast about science communication: when scientists meet the public. By some lucky coincidence, I somehow managed to speak to some really fantastic people, and this podcast is the result. I’ve been putting together a podcast called Monsters inside your head, and it explores how patients with neurodegenerative diseases cope with their […]The post When scientists meet the public appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Caren Cooper One type of science communication is getting big. Citizen science is getting big: volunteer computing, volunteer thinking, volunteer data collection. Caren Cooper, from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithica, New York, is part […]The post Speaking to… Caren Cooper about citizen science appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Lizzie Crouch Lizzie Crouch is a freelance science communicator working on a myriad of projects ranging from project managing Robert Winston’s website, to working to get designers and scientists to collaborate with the Design Science project. […]The post Speaking to…Lizzie Crouch appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Jen Wong In this podcast I speak to Jen Wong, co-founder of Guerilla Science, and event developer at the Natural History Museum in London. In this podcast we explore what Jen does at the Natural History Museum, […]The post Speaking to… Jen Wong appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to…  Jenna Stevens-Smith It’s important for scientists to have the ability to communicate their research to the public, for many reasons already explored in several of the interviews in this series. But for this podcast I’m speaking […]The post Speaking to… Jenna Stevens-Smith appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Robin Ince and Trent Burton about The Incomplete Map of the Cosmic Genome Today’s feature podcast about science communication is with Robin Ince, “comedian, writer and that sort of thing” and Trent Burton founder of Trunkman Productions, […]The post Speaking to… Robin Ince and Trent Burton about The Incomplete Map of the Cosmic Genome appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Dr Phil Marshall  A few weeks ago I spoke to Phil about Space Warps, a new citizen science project that is on the look of out citizen scientists to help classify images that may or may not […]The post Special Speaking to… Dr Phil Marshall (part 2) appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Michael and Praveen about the Pint of Science Festival! This week, London, Cambridge and Oxford are hosting a new science communication festival: the Pint of Science Festival from the 14th to the 16th of May! I caught […]The post Speaking to… Michael and Praveen: The Pint of Science Festival! appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Dr Phil Marshall about citizen science project Space Warps Today sees the launch of a new citizen science project called Space Warps! I spoke to Dr Phil Marshall from the astrophysics department at Oxford University to find […]The post Speaking to… Dr Phil Marshall and the launch of Space Warps! appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

This is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Catherine Ross Head Squeeze is a new science communication YouTube channel, exploring science, culture, and anything else cool that is discussed around the water cooler. Working with people like Huw James, Fran Scott and many other talented science communicators and scientists, The […]The post Speaking to… Catherine Ross from Head Squeeze appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Professor Jim Al-Khalili Professor Jim Al-Khalili is a bit of a specialist when it comes to balancing his time between research and doing plenty of science communication. I went to visit him at the University of Surrey […]The post Speaking to… Professor Jim Al-Khalili appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Andrew Cohen Making a career in television production is not an easy feat, but in the 18 years that Andrew has been in science communication he has gone from working for the BBC as a runner to […]The post Speaking to… Andrew Cohen: Science on TV appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… David Benque. David Benque is a research associate in the Design Interactions Group at the Royal College of Art. One of the subjects he works with is Synthetic Biology, a relatively new scientific field. His work is […]The post Speaking to… David Benque: Communicating Synthetic Biology appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Dr Julie Sharp. Communicating delicate subjects is not an easy task, and yet, Cancer Research UK makes it look relatively simple. They’re science communication team needs to be able to communicate advanced and complicated science to an […]The post Speaking to… Dr Julie Sharp: Science communication and cancer appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

This feature podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Virginia Hughes. Scientific papers don’t seem to attract many readers outside the sphere of science when it comes to science communication. Yet the discoveries recounted in these papers play a pivotal role in some science-fiction stories, and […]The post Speaking to… Virginia Hughes: Science and stories appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

This podcast is part of a series of interviews with science communicators about science communication. Today we are Speaking to… Alom Shaha. This is a special podcast interview with Alom Shaha, a science teacher, science communicator and author of The Young Atheists Handbook. Useful links: Why is Science important? Imperial College MSc science communication You can follow […]The post Speaking to… Alom Shaha appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

A special podcast with Mr Bill Bryson, author of A Short History of Nearly Everything. This science communication interview was recorded for the x-change, as part of my work at the British Science Festival 2012 in Aberdeen. So although this wasn’t specifically recorded for Speaking of Science, I think it was still a great opportunity, and […]The post Speaking to… Bill Bryson appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.

To start the 2013 interviews, Speaking of Science is proud to have Gareth Mitchell, an expert in radio and science communication to be in the first audio podcast of the Speaking to… series. You can follow Gareth on Twitter at @GarethM or listen to Click on the BBC World Service.The post Speaking to… Gareth Mitchell appeared first on Speaking of Science » Podcast Feed.