From Creativity to Impact: Science Communication Project Design

This course is about creating your own science communication passion project! Using design thinking and inspiration from diverse guest presenters, you’ll develop a project idea, pilot it in a supportive real-world context, then report on your pilot. Lectures and interactive workshops will share approaches to help you get creative, find your purpose, discover diverse methods, create effective partnerships, source funding (if required), and manage and evaluate your project. You may work individually or in a group - and feel free to bring your friends/collaborators! Don't worry if you don't have a project idea, the intensive will guide you through the creative process and give you practical experience with common methods you can readily adapt to your audience of choice (e.g. hands-on workshops for schools/youth groups). You may opt to integrate the course with your employment or freelance activity where suitable. Students receive ongoing support to implement their projects following the intensive, scaffolded by assessment and the convenor. Many past students’ ideas have turned into funded, real-world, ongoing projects that have had national and global impacts, so don’t underestimate what you might achieve if you make the most of it! This is an authentic opportunity to develop real-world skills, networks and grow your ideas into realities, so if you have a science communication approach you want to let loose on the the world - or want to create a new one - this is the course for you!