Science vs. Sceptics: Communicating Risk, Overcoming Complexity In A Fragmented World
Friday, April 1, 2011
Session Description
Global risks like climate change, infectious diseases, and food security are science-based, highly complex, and often controversial issues that require collective response. Yet today’s highly fragmented and politicised media landscape empowers sceptics, sidetracks legitimate debate and impedes solutions. This panel will explore how to communicate science and risk publicly, and how to overcome complexity to mobilise people for change.
Time & Location
Time:
11:00 - 12:30, Friday, April 1, 2011
BST
Speakers
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Professor, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento
Massimiano Bucchi teaches Science and Technology in Society, University of Trento, Italy. His publications include Science in Society (London and New York, Routledge, 2004), Handbook of Public Communication of Science (with B. Trench, Routledge, 2008), Beyond Technocracy (New York, Springer…
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Mechai Viravaidya’s work centered on reducing births (family planning), reducing deaths (fighting the spread of HIV), reducing dependency (establishing social enterprises), eradicating poverty (community empowerment) and reducing ignorance (reinventing Thai education).
He was also appointed to…
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CEO, Climate Central
Dr. Cullen is CEO of Climate Central—a non-profit science journalism organisation .Before joining Climate Central, where she reports on climate and energy issues for programmes like PBS NewsHour, Dr. Cullen served as The Weather Channel’ sfirst on-air climate expert and helped create Forecast…
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Science Correspondent, The Guardian
Alok Jha is a science and environment correspondent at The Guardian newspaper, based in London. In addition to writing news and comment, he presents the Science Weekly podcast and looks after The Guardian’s science website. He graduated with a physics degree from Imperial College…
