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PCST 2018 Video
Okay, this is a little different. If a picture can tell a thousand words, then by posting a video, I should pretty much not have to say anything at all! This is a video made by Tourism New Zealand to capture the essence of the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Conference held in Dunedin, New Zealand from 3-6 April, 2018: The next conference will be in Scotland in 2020. Make sure you go and don’t miss out on all that the PCST Conferences have to offer for anyone interested in the area of science communication,. Photo: Plenary Panel at PCST 2018 featuring (left to right): Marina Joubert, Jan…
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The Public Communication of Science and Technology
The premiere conference for science communicators is the biennial PCST Conference, which this year was held in Dunedin, New Zealand, from 3 – 6 April. The initials PCST stand for “Public Communication of Science and Technology.” Ironically, however, the public is typically excluded from the PCST Conference events, which are aimed at researchers and practitioners in the field of science communication. This time, we decided to do something different and have the address by one of our keynote speakers – Dr Jennifer Wiseman, chief scientist for NASA’s Hubble Telescope – open to the public. We held the event in Dunedin’s glorious Regent Theatre and there were nearly 1,000 people in…
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Come to Middle Earth for PCST 2018
For my sins, I am the Chair of the Local Organising Committee for the PCST (Public Communication of Science and Technology) Conference, 2018. This is the largest and most significant international meeting of science communicators and it occurs every two years. From 3 – 6 April, it shall be held in New Zealand for the first time, attracting over 500 of the world’s science communicators – a mixture of both researchers and practitioners – to our wee part of the globe, or Middle Earth as Sir Peter Jackson likes to call it. Science Communication is a relatively new field and these gatherings assume an importance not unlike the migrations of…
