27 July 2020
Never let it be said that The Comms Doctor® shies away from a challenge – bushfires, blue-green algae outbreaks and a global pandemic have provided ‘unique’ work circumstances for The...
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16 July 2020
Social media are important tools in a modern researcher’s box of communication tricks. Since the advent of Facebook in 2004, social media has been used to promote research stories locally,...
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25 June 2020
Websites can play a powerful role in communicating research, combining colour, sound, movement, words, pictures, connection, access, history and engagement with information - all in one package. Since they exploded...
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21 February 2020
You’re driving on the open road, you turn on your favourite device, and you listen to a great story on the radio. Or you are on holidays and you lie...
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28 January 2020
Radio, TV, internet, various social media, print, magazines, video blog, podcast … researchers and communicators now have a plethora of communication media that they can use to tell their story....
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18 December 2019
Collaboration is vital for natural resource management (NRM), as no one person or organisation can successfully address all complex facing NRM in Australia. Research institutes and NRM practitioner agencies bring...
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13 November 2019
Throughout my career in science communication, I’ve regularly been asked “what makes a good research story?” Luckily, I have worked in institutions that encouraged their researchers to develop research ‘for...
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15 September 2019
Bush kinder uses Nature and the outdoors as a setting for intensive learning by young children, particularly those attending pre-school. Jennie Schopfer is an early childhood educator, teacher of teachers...
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