The below video features contributions from Dr Warren Pearce (Research Fellow, University of Nottingham), Neil Lancastle (Neil Lancastle, University of Leicester and ‘Rethinking Economics’), Professor Suzi Jarvis (Innovation Academy, University College Dublin) and Dr Sylvia McLain (Biochemistry, University of Oxford).
The session includes presentations on how different social media
communities debate and re-interpret scientific findings, a case study of
the IPCC, an introduction to a student-led project to bring greater
pluralism into economics teaching, discussion of opportunities and
challenges for cross-disciplinary communication, and consideration of
how researchers can use social media to promote their work, as well as
learn lessons from crowd-sourced scientific research projects.
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