Scientists with outreach components to their research funding may look to the university's outreach specialists for assistance in designing outreach plans that complement their research, in writing the outreach portion of a grant application, or in executing the outreach plan once that funding comes in.
If at all possible, I'd like to build up a resource of items for use in schools (e.g., booklets/kits etc) that would be available to scientists for outreach work.I know the Wellcome Trust is launching a new scheme of grants for engaging the public in science and I'm looking into that.
So here's what we've got lined up for this special issue devoted to scientists in educational outreach.
It's possible to earn an advanced degree in science communication, but most scientists interested in outreach begin with small steps out of the laboratory.
It's common for scientists do some outreach work alongside their research jobs -- an occasional public lecture, say, or a talk at a local school.
Scientists' involvement in outreach, politics, and entrepreneurship should be encouraged.
Andrews and Weaver found that time constraints were the unanimous primary impediment to scientists' involvement in outreach.
Instead, the interest of Wikipedians might be driven by other factors like scientists' social impact, public outreach, attention from media, popularity of their research topic, etc.
The demands on scientists in terms of outreach, administration, grant writing, teaching, and more are tremendous, and there are only 24 hours in a day.
But he thinks a "cultural change" is underway in the geosciences as younger scientists who care about outreach become more senior and the field embraces the mission of communication more broadly.
