Your career success depends not only on doing good work. You must also explain that work to important audiences: your colleagues, funding officers, donors, your institution’s leaders, students, your own family and friends, journalists and the public. Dennis Meredith offers invaluable tips on using new-media technologies to engage those audiences in a clear and compelling way, in this lecture based on his new book Explaining Research.

Date: Wednesday 9 June 2010

Speaker: Dennis Meredith, science research writer and consultant
Dennis Meredith has served as a science communicator at leading research universities, including MIT, Caltech, Cornell, Duke and the University of Wisconsin. He has worked with science journalists at all of the US’s major newspapers, magazines, and radio and TV networks and has written well over 1000 news releases and magazine articles on science and engineering over a four-decade career. Among his achievements, he was a creator and developer of EurekAlert!, helping to establish that international research news service that links thousands of journalists to news from hundreds of research institutions.

Moderator: Margaret Harris, reviews and careers editor, Physics World

The video runs for approximately 60 min.