Welcome to Research Comms, a podcast exploring the theme of research communication in a digital age, presented by Peter Barker and Orinoco Communications. How can we ensure that research has a positive impact on society? How can we make sure the public has a voice in conversations about the research that will have profound effects on their lives? Research Comms sets out to answer these questions and more through interviews with those who are doing the most inspiring work in the field of research communications and public engagement.
COVID has meant that scientific conferences, as we’ve previously known them, have ceased to exist. Many events have responded by shifting their activi...
In this episode of the Research Comms podcast, Suw Charman-Anderson tells the story of how Ada Lovelace Day started over ten years ago and how it has ...
In this episode of the Research Comms podcast, Wendy Jarrett, CEO of Understanding Animal Research, talks about changing attitudes towards animal rese...
Medical research charities have been hit hard by the disruptive effects of the pandemic, with many fundraising events cancelled for the foreseeable fu...
In this episode of the Research Comms podcast Heidi Larson, Professor of Anthropology Risk and Decision science at the London School of Hygiene and Tr...
In this episode of the Research Comms podcast Cambridge University psychologist, Dr Sander van der Linden, discusses the latest surveys that he and hi...
In this episode of the Research Comms podcast psychologist, Dr Asheley Landrum, from Texas Tech University unpicks some of the conspiracy theories abo...
In this episode of the Research Comms podcast broadcaster and historian, Dan Snow, talks about what it was like working at the end of TV’s ‘golden age...
In this episode of the Research Comms podcast climatologist and climate science communicator, Prof. Katharine Hayhoe, talks about the best way to enga...
Selfies often get a bad rap as being somehow symbolic of our age of self-obsession. But can they also serve a more positive role for people looking to...