These are the slides of the keynote talk in the science communication session, at the Plant Biology Europe FESPB/EPSO Congress, 24 June 2014 in Dublin (http://europlantbiology.org/).

1. CREATIVE WAYS TO
COMMUNICATE YOUR
RESEARCH
Anne Osterrieder
Oxford Brookes University
EPSO-FEBS Conference Dublin, 24 June 2014 #EPSO14

2. WHO?

3. Transcript: http://www.plantcellbiology.com/2013/06/how-i-became-a-plant-cell-biologist/

14. WHAT?

15. Fame Lab, The Three Minute Thesis
Competition, Dance your PhD….

16. http://www.plantcellbiology.com/

17. https://twitter.com/anneosterrieder

18. YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/musicalcells

19. WHY?

20. http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/media.htm
Golgi apparatus

22. It’s fascinating!

24. Responsibility.
Fun!
New skills.
Networking.
Makes me a better scientist.

25. Why is this important?
Understand molecular mechanisms of Golgi stack structure
Understand Golgi populations in individual cells
Put Golgi populations into functional context in cells
Study effects on plant phenotypes

26. WHERE?

30. http://www.cafescientifique.org/

34. “I will never stand behind a lectern again! I will always need
to have a stage!”
“I used some of the theatre techniques for my presentation
[at a research conference] - standing with my feet apart,
breathing properly. It helped me.”
“I spend 50 hours per week in my office, not talking to
people. [A project like this] is a healthy thing to do if
you are doing an Arts and Humanities PhD.”

35. © Ivy Livingstone, CC-BY 4.0. http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/index.htm

36. HOW?

37. Your research
Discipline, research area or specific project?
General concepts or actual data?
Published or unpublished research?
Issues: Intellectual property, copyright,
collaborative research, peer review…

38. Who is your audience?
Peers Other researchers
Teachers Media
Interested non-experts Not interested non-experts
Adults Young people
Colleagues

39. Your goals and preferences
What do you want to achieve?
How much time do you have?
Do you prefer to write, take photos, speak…?
What do you enjoy doing?

40. Be creative!

41. Start small…

42. …but don’t be afraid to think big!

43. Make science communication
part of your every-day work

45. Evaluate!

46. Have you visited the
Science Bazaar before?
Yes
No
Activities
Very satisfied
satisfied
Neither
satisfied nor
dissatified

47. “MoodThingy” – Wordpress plug-in

48. WHEN?

49. “Publish or Perish”

50. Perception of science communication?

51. Plant Cell
Biology
Plant
Biology
Biology
Natural Sciences
Sciences
Academica
Outside academia

53. By Killy Ridols (Patagonia) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

54. Thank you!
http://www.plantcellbiology.com
http://www.youtube.com/plantendomembrane
@AnneOsterrieder