Emma Weitkamp's Outputs (72)

A cross disciplinary embodiment: Exploring the impacts of embedding science communication principles in a collaborative learning space (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter reports on the short term impacts of a workshop involving pupils and suggests ways in which by working together scientists, science communicators and teachers can co-develop engaging and inspirational learning opportunities that place sc... Read More about A cross disciplinary embodiment: Exploring the impacts of embedding science communication principles in a collaborative learning space.

Medical performance and the ‘inaccessible’ experience of illness: An exploratory study (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Medical Humanities. All rights reserved. We report a survey of audience members’ responses (147 questionnaires collected at seven performances) and 10 in-depth interviews (five former patients and two family members, three medical practitioner... Read More about Medical performance and the ‘inaccessible’ experience of illness: An exploratory study.

Research press offices as hubs of science communication: Envisioning future roles (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This panel session explores the roles, both current and potential, of press offices and science media centres in science communication. There is growing interest in the role that press offices and officers play in the way that research emerges from r... Read More about Research press offices as hubs of science communication: Envisioning future roles.

PhD-research as a marker of science communication’s development (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

PhD-research is important in many scientific domains as it represents early development of new ideas and methods. So what does a 15-year record of science communication PhD-theses (2000-2015, N=164) tell us about the development of ideas and methods... Read More about PhD-research as a marker of science communication’s development.

Creative research communication: Theory and practice (2016)
Book

Aimed at scholars interested in engaging the public with their research and postgraduate students exploring the practical aspects of research communication, this book provides a theoretically grounded introduction to new and emerging approaches to pu... Read More about Creative research communication: Theory and practice.

Telling stories about our research (2016)
Journal Article

The academic journal paper has been around for several hundred years and during that time has seen shifts in style and structure. This editorial explores the traditional research paper and considers whether thinking about the research paper as a stor... Read More about Telling stories about our research.

Five years of JCOM — inclusive, comprehensive or could we do better? (2016)
Journal Article

Looking back over the past 5 years of articles published in JCOM, this editorial looks at the topics covered and the geographies represented and asks: are we tackling all main contemporary issues in science communication/popularisation or public enga... Read More about Five years of JCOM — inclusive, comprehensive or could we do better?.

From planning to motivations: Citizen science comes to life (2016)
Journal Article

This issue forms Part II of JCOM’s collection of articles and essays exploring the field of citizen science. Here I introduce the articles in Part II, outlining how they contribute to our understanding of the ways that volunteers participate in citiz... Read More about From planning to motivations: Citizen science comes to life.

A question of (audience) reach (2015)
Journal Article

Taking the International Science in Popular Culture conference as a starting point, this editorial considers audiences for cultural products, considering the size of audiences (from blockbuster films, to intimate science slams), their pre-existing (o... Read More about A question of (audience) reach.

Between ambition and evidence (2015)
Journal Article

Measuring impact may be challenging, but does that mean we should accept a lack of ambition? Researchers in all fields are grappling with the challenge of how to measure impact (in many different contexts, which naturally leads to many different appr... Read More about Between ambition and evidence.

Moving forward, looking back (2015)
Journal Article

This issue sees the implementation of new designs for the JCOM website and articles and there are plans for further updates over the next year. In a recent survey, we have explored readers opinions of the journal with a view to introducing improvemen... Read More about Moving forward, looking back.

Devised performance as a tool for public engagement in acute haematological cancers (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction: Dramatic representations of cancer patients play an important role in engaging the public. However, mainstream formats such as Hollywood film, risk sentimentalising the subjective experience of the patient and ‘dumbing down’ the science... Read More about Devised performance as a tool for public engagement in acute haematological cancers.

How far should we go? Public relations, mediatisation of science and science communication (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Scientists around the world are under increasing pressure to publicise their work. Whether it is funding bodies demanding ‘pathways to impact’ or institutions looking to showcase their wares, few scientists can now escape the pressure to engage with... Read More about How far should we go? Public relations, mediatisation of science and science communication.

Exploring serendipitous dialogue (2014)
Journal Article

Over the past decades there has been an increasing recognition of the
need to promote dialogue between science and society. Often this takes the form
of formal processes, such as citizen’s juries, that are designed to allow the public
to contribut... Read More about Exploring serendipitous dialogue.

On the roles of scientists, press officers and journalists (2014)
Journal Article

This issue of the Journal of Science Communication raises a number
of questions about the ways that new scientific research emerges from research
institutions and in particular the role played by scientists, press officers and
journalists in this... Read More about On the roles of scientists, press officers and journalists.

Shared spaces: a future for JCOM (2014)
Journal Article

As academic communities across the globe are increasingly encour-
aged to share their knowledge outside the ivory towers of academia, it becomes
ever more important to create a bridge that crosses continents and disciplinary
boundaries. Sitting, a... Read More about Shared spaces: a future for JCOM.

UWE Science Communication Postgraduate Papers (2014)
Book

Foreword
This second volume in the Postgraduate Papers series has been produced as part of the celebrations of ten years of Science Communication postgraduate programmes in the Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of Englan... Read More about UWE Science Communication Postgraduate Papers.

Agenda building in media coverage of food research (2014)
Journal Article

Concern has been raised about the rising influence of public relations on scientific news coverage and the potential role of institutional sources in shaping news reports. This study uses quantitative content analysis and qualitative interviews to ex... Read More about Agenda building in media coverage of food research.

A case study in serendipity: Environmental researchers use of traditional and social media for dissemination (2013)
Journal Article

In the face of demands for researchers to engage more actively with a wider range of publics and to capture different kinds of research impacts and engagements, we explored the ways a small number of environmental researchers use traditional and soci... Read More about A case study in serendipity: Environmental researchers use of traditional and social media for dissemination.

An exploration of the collaborative processes of making theatre inspired by science (2012)
Journal Article

This research examined the collaborative processes of making theatre inspired by science through the analysis of 16 semi-structured interviews with individual collaborators (eight theatre practitioners and eight scientists). Interviews explored exper... Read More about An exploration of the collaborative processes of making theatre inspired by science.