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Category Archives: Communicating Science
How Do You Know How to Write a Thesis?
I wrote my PhD thesis so long ago it was typed for me by someone else based on my handwritten chapters; the diagrams were drawn laboriously and messily by me with a pen, ink and a fair number of smudges; … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Research, Science Culture
Tagged communication, examiners, PhD thesis, viva
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Knocking on Heaven’s Door
This book review first appeared in Times Higher Education on September 1st 2011. Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World By Lisa Randall Bodley Head, 464pp, £20.00 ISBN 9781847920690 Published 1 … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Research
Tagged Higgs Particle, Large Hadron Collider, Lisa Randall
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
I am really chuffed to find myself one of the new intake of Trustees for the National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI), which incorporates the Science Museum in London and its companion near Swindon, the National Railway Museum in … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Education, Public Engagement
Tagged displays, school children, Science Museum
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Anniversary Day
A year ago today I set finger to keyboard for the first time to start my blog. When I did it I had no real idea of what my focus was going to be, but I had a sort of … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Science Culture
Tagged blogpost, public engagement, writing
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Hype, Impact and Direct Action
The issue of ‘impact’ appears here to stay in UK research. There has been much written about it, including by fellow OT blogger Stephen Curry here. With the draft guidelines for the REF about to be published, in which impact … Continue reading
