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SPECIAL GUEST: Isabelle Kingsley (UNSW)
From school teacher, to science communicator, to events producer, and now researcher, Isabelle Kingsley has spent her career spanning widely different areas of science education and outreach. She founded the Sydney Science Festival in 2015 which has grown into an annual festival attended by over 80,000 people. While she was running the Sydney Science Festival she began to wonder what sort of educational impact public science events actually have.
This inspired her to undertake her PhD at the University of New South Wales where she is developing methods to quantify what people actually learn from public science events. Despite the proliferation of science communication and outreach across the world we actually don’t know how effective these initiatives are at increasing science literacy and comprehension. Isabelle’s work will help improve the efforts of science communicators and educators and help make science engagement more effective into the future.
Visit Isabelle’s website to find out more or follow her research and outreach journey on Twitter and Instagram @isabellekingsley
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Ep 63. Marine biology, coral reefs and tiny fishes with Chris Goatley
Ep 62. Machine learning and digital bricklayers with Will Billingsley
Ep 61. Wetlands, waterbirds and food webs with Lindsey Frost
Ep 60. Green cities, mole crickets, and impostor syndrome with Dieter Hochuli
Ep 59. Stem cells, scicomm and fatty tubes with Naomi Koh Belic
Ep 58. Droughts, drones and data with David Lamb
Ep 57. Medical foot-soldiers and shiny bugs with Scott Fabricant
Ep 56. Life Vs Science 2018
Ep 55. Searching for the 'lost' Desert Rat Kangaroo with Karl Vernes
Ep 54. Dinosaur detectives and frozen crocodiles with Ada Klinkhamer
Ep 53. Indigenous knowledge meets Farmer Brown with Harry White
Ep 52. Truffle travel and primitive skills with Todd Elliot
Ep 51. Leaky pipelines and chytrid fungus with Deborah Bower
Ep 50. Creativity, flexibility and exploration with James O'Hanlon
Ep 49. Peacock spiders and citizen science with Stuart Harris
Ep 48. Soil microbes and healthy farming with Maarten Stapper
Ep 47. Sexy siestas and shooting for the stars with Dr Karl
Ep 46. Eurovision, cake and ant-mimicking spiders with Mariella Herberstein
Ep 45. Wing Threads: Flight to the Tundra with Milly Formby
Ep 44. Assassin bugs, cloud forests and spread-eagle hunters with Matthew Bulbert
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