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| Ethical scicomm in today's world: training for animal behavior students and instructors Kailey Hicks1, Bethann Garramon-Merkle2, Rebecca Swenson3, Meena Balgopal4, Virginia Schutte5, Dale Broder6, Robin Tinghitella1. 1University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA.2University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA.3University of Minnesota, St.Paul, MN, USA.4Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.5Virginia Schutte Consulting, Denver, CO, USA.6American University, Washington, DC, USA |
Abstract
While communication is critical in every career path, most scientists leave graduate school feeling unprepared to share their work broadly. Our preliminary data suggests that science communication training in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior & Conservation (EEBC) is too narrow, focusing on communication with subject experts to the exclusion of communication with non-specialist audiences (scicomm). Instructors also report barriers to offering scicomm training, including a lack of professional community, a lack of time and resources, and little institutional support. We gathered a team of experts to develop a robust scicomm training framework. In this talk, we will poll attendees on their experience with scicomm training and priorities for scicomm instruction. We will introduce six principles of ‘ethical scicomm’ that build on existing frameworks like inclusive scicomm and coproduction. We then describe our test of three scicomm interventions in graduate-level EEBC disciplinary and scicomm courses and offer instructors a chance to connect with our community of practice and collaborate to determine how best to equip the next generation of EEBC students and instructors.
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