CREATIVE WAYS TO
COMMUNICATE YOUR
RESEARCH
Anne Osterrieder
Oxford Brookes University
EPSO-FEBS Conference Dublin, 24 June 2014 #EPSO14
WHO?
Transcript: http://www.plantcellbiology.com/2013/06/how-i-became-a-plant-cell-biologist/
WHAT?
Fame Lab, The Three Minute Thesis
Competition, Dance your PhD….
http://www.plantcellbiology.com/
https://twitter.com/anneosterrieder
YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/musicalcells
WHY?
http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/media.htm
Golgi apparatus
It’s fascinating!
Responsibility.
Fun!
New skills.
Networking.
Makes me a better scientist.
Why is this important?
Understand molecular mechanisms of Golgi stack structure
Understand Golgi populations in individual cells
Put Golgi populations into functional context in cells
Study effects on plant phenotypes
WHERE?
http://www.cafescientifique.org/
“I will never stand behind a lectern again! I will always need
to have a stage!”
“I used some of the theatre techniques for my presentation
[at a research conference] - standing with my feet apart,
breathing properly. It helped me.”
“I spend 50 hours per week in my office, not talking to
people. [A project like this] is a healthy thing to do if
you are doing an Arts and Humanities PhD.”
© Ivy Livingstone, CC-BY 4.0. http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/index.htm
HOW?
Your research
Discipline, research area or specific project?
General concepts or actual data?
Published or unpublished research?
Issues: Intellectual property, copyright,
collaborative research, peer review…
Who is your audience?
Peers Other researchers
Teachers Media
Interested non-experts Not interested non-experts
Adults Young people
Colleagues
Your goals and preferences
What do you want to achieve?
How much time do you have?
Do you prefer to write, take photos, speak…?
What do you enjoy doing?
Be creative!
Start small…
…but don’t be afraid to think big!
Make science communication
part of your every-day work
Evaluate!
Have you visited the
Science Bazaar before?
Yes
No
Activities
Very satisfied
satisfied
Neither
satisfied nor
dissatified
“MoodThingy” – Wordpress plug-in
WHEN?
“Publish or Perish”
Perception of science communication?
Plant Cell
Biology
Plant
Biology
Biology
Natural Sciences
Sciences
Academica
Outside academia
By Killy Ridols (Patagonia) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Thank you!
http://www.plantcellbiology.com
http://www.youtube.com/plantendomembrane
@AnneOsterrieder

Creative ways to communicate your research