Re-science is an independent publication launched in April 2022 by science communicator, Helen van de Pol. Re-science is reviewing and critiquing science communication activities in digital and physical cultural and community spaces. For practitioners, we aim to help science communicators develop their practice. For audiences, we want to develop their critical faculties for such activities.
To paraphrase American critic and theatre practitioner Robert Brustein*:
I am trying to find out what it is that could possibly help a science communicator advance by trying to find out what they are trying to do, and to see whether they did it successfully.
* as referred to by Australian writer and critic Alison Croggon in Remembered Presences, p251.
Or as movie critic Pauline Kael challenged her readers in Newsweek (24/12/1973):
In the arts, the critic is the only source of information. The rest is advertising.
New reviews are emailed out fortnightly and vary in length from 500 to 1500 words. Occasionally additional reviews go out to coincide with timely events.
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Guest reviews are welcome. We accept short (500 words) or long pieces (1000-2000 words). Associated images with appropriate acknowledgements are appreciated. Reviews should include the activity's objectives and audiences and refer to both the reviewer's own experience and best practice research in science communication. Currently these are unpaid. As subscriptions build, this will hopefully change.
CONTACT: resciencenews@icloud.com.
About Helen van de Pol
I’ve spent over twenty-five years working with many science, education and research institutions as a science communicator and in executive roles. I’ve had freelance commissions from Biotechnology Australia, CSIRO, the (then) Australian Government Department of Education, Science & Training and The Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
Most recently I’ve worked at the University of Melbourne as an Animal Ethics Advisor, Communications and Outreach Manager for the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) and Operations and Communications Lead, Melbourne Bioinformatics. All roles were based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Throughout I’ve been engaged in the profession as a member of the Australian Science Communicators, as Chair, Victorian Science Week Coordinating Committee, and as Councillor and Chair, Outreach, Royal Society of Victoria.
In recent times I've posted reviews on Linked In and I'm now working on new ones, being published here.
Follow on Twitter @resciencefan and on Mastadon @rescience@mastadon.social
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