In this episode you meet Sam Illingworth, Associate Professor in Academic Practice at Edinburgh Napier University, who tells us more about his work and view on science communication.

His research revolves around developing dialogue between scientists and nonscientists and in particular giving voice to those audiences that have been traditionally under heard and underserved by science and science communication.

Sam Illingworth sees poetry as a powerful tool to develop a two way dialogue. He writes poems about  scientific studies in his blog The Poetry of Science to communicate research to a non-scientific audience.

He writes poetry about science

Forskare har mycket att vinna på att involvera patienter i hela forskningsprocessen – från formuleringen av hypoteser till publiceringen av resultat. Det menar Malin Linder Nording som forskar om en sjukdom som kan drabba gravida och innebära extremt illamående och mycket svåra kräkningar under dygnets alla timmar.

Malin Linder Nording är docent i analytisk kemi vid Umeå universitet och forskar om sjukdomen hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) som drabbar ca 1 procent av alla gravida. I det här avsnittet av Curiepodden berättar hon om patientnära forskning och hur den har påverkat upplägget av hennes forskningsstudier. Malin Linder Nording beskriver också hur det är att forska om en sjukdom som hon själv har haft.

Avsnittet ingår i serien Från min forskningshorisont där olika forskare berättar om sin forskarvardag och vilka frågor som engagerar dem just nu.

"Jag behöver aldrig tvivla på nyttan av min forskning"

The press called him the happiest laureate, which he was. In 2012, Robert Lefkowitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with his colleague and former fellow Brian Kobilka. Listen to his experience of the Nobel Week and how he ended up being a question on Jeopardy. 

Robert Lefkowitz, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Duke University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is known for his stories. In this podcast episode he tells a few of them - what made the Nobel Week so special, how his banquet speech ended up being a comment on the politicalization of science in the US and how his uncle Henry got all excited when Lefkowitz was featured on Jeopardy.

The happiest laureate

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He writes poetry about science

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