Developing Science Communication Skills in Early Career Scientists

培养早期职业科学家的科学沟通技巧

• 批准号: 2208166
• 负责人: Hayley Schiebel
• 金额: $ 4.89万
• 依托单位: Suffolk University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-11-01 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2208166&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; Science; Communication; Skills; Early

Science communication is now recognized as an important skill for career advancement and for public understanding of science. Early career scientists (undergraduate, graduate, within two years of graduation) who are entering the workforce must be prepared to communicate science to a wide range of audiences, from the general public to lab groups to research conference scientists. Effective communications require scientists to visually and verbally translate scientific information for those with limited backgrounds in science as well as for scientists whose expertise varies from the presenter. Unfortunately, very few programs offer communications training to early career scientists. This project will provide such professional development to early career scientists via a combined virtual and in-person workshop focused on verbal and visual science communication skills. The half-day virtual programming will be held several weeks prior to the one-day in-person workshop. The in-person workshop will offer participants an opportunity to practice their presentations prior to a major ocean science conference.This workshop will build upon previous workshops (2019 through 2021) and incorporates requests from participants of prior years to modify the workshop content. For example, the workshop now contains more international-focused awareness in the verbal sessions and poster/presentation skills for a scientific conference in the visual components. The workshop will include presentations from two experts in visual communications and verbal communications. Some work will be held virtually in advance of the conference, and the in-person workshop will be held in conjunction with the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) meeting in June 2023, a meeting that many ocean scientists regularly attend.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

科学传播现在被认为是职业发展和公众对科学理解的重要技能。进入职场的早期职业科学家（本科生、研究生、毕业两年内）必须做好向广泛受众（从公众到实验室小组再到研究会议科学家）传播科学的准备。有效的沟通要求科学家以视觉和口头方式为科学背景有限的人以及专业知识与演示者不同的科学家翻译科学信息。不幸的是，很少有项目为早期职业科学家提供沟通培训。该项目将通过虚拟和面对面的研讨会相结合，重点关注语言和视觉科学沟通技巧，为早期职业科学家提供此类专业发展。为期半天的虚拟编程将在为期一天的现场研讨会之前几周举行。现场研讨会将为参与者提供在大型海洋科学会议之前练习演讲的机会。本次研讨会将以之前的研讨会（2019 年至 2021 年）为基础，并纳入前几年参与者修改研讨会内容的请求。例如，研讨会现在在口头会议中包含更多国际关注意识，在视觉组件中包含科学会议的海报/演示技巧。该研讨会将包括两位视觉传达和口头传达专家的演讲。一些工作实际上将在会议之前举行，现场研讨会将与 2023 年 6 月举行的湖沼学和海洋学科学协会 (ASLO) 会议同时举行，这是许多海洋科学家定期参加的会议。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。