9:00
Networking
Doors Open
Grab a coffee, visit the booths, network a bit or just take a stroll around and familiarise yourself with our event platform.
9:30
Main Stage
Welcome
Keynote
9:35
Main Stage
Keynote: Florence Schechter
In this keynote, Florence Schechter, founder of the Vagina Museum in London, talks about taboos, women's health and science communication.
10:15
Stage
Who Do We Honour in Science?
What do we do when our heroes are shown to have less than admirable personal lives? How do we choose our heroes today and do we need to reframe the heroes of the past?
Patrick Freyne
Mary McAuliffe
Femi Bankole
Jonathan McCrea
11:15
Lobby
Coffee / Poster Session
Grab a coffee and mingle!
11:45
Red Breakout
Breakout 1: Being a Public Scientist
Breakout session
In this session, we look at each role in the chain of scientific public engagement - scientist, communications officer and journalist. How do articles get published? What sort of relationship do the comms team and the journalist have? What is expected of the scientist and comms team?
Niall Smith
Olivia Waters
Christine Loscher
Claire O'Connell
11:45
Blue Breakout
Breakout 2: Outside the Box
Breakout session
This session brings together new and exciting ideas in science communication. Speakers include:
David McKeown, head of engineering on the Eirsat-1 project who will talk about the poetry aboard Ireland's first official satellite.
Ulla Hasselbalch from Made By Us - a Danish production company. Ulla will talk about her work on John Dillermand - a children's series about a man with a comically long penis and how it helped children talk about their bodies.
Niamh Faulkner, who ran a science communication campaign for a research cruise on the RV Celtic Explorer last year, the PoRoCLIM expedition.
The campaign included a podcast recorded at sea, a lego scientist photo series, YouTube videos and live Q&A with schools.
Ulla Hasselbalch
David McKeown
Niamh Faulkner
Phil Smyth
11:45
White Breakout
Breakout 3: From the Mouths of Babes (Curam)
Breakout session
From the Mouths of Babes - Examining the impact of a social-inclusion centred STEAM learning programme from the perspective of the participants
This session will include a panel discussion with the project lead, parents and children who took part in CÚRAM's Curious Young Minds project. A co-created STEAM learning programme for children aged 4-12, Curious Young Minds was developed for children and their parents who are resident in Ireland through the Direct Provision system.
Claire Riordan
Lindsay Deely
12:45
Lobby
Lunch / Poster Session
13:45
Main Stage
The Future of Representation and the Ethics of Avatars
In this fascinating talk, Owen Conlan will explore the future of representation - Avatars. In his work at ADAPT, he is leading a team trying to understand how much control we can and are willing to give to AI to act on our behalf.
14:20
Main Stage
Ireland's views on Climate Action
In this talk, Sharon Finegan will review some new research undertaken with Yale University and the EPA, looking at the various Irish attitudes to Climate Change.
Main Stage
Representing Climate Change
Fear or Hope? Benefits or Risk? Confidence or Uncertainty? Climate change is the greatest challenge we face on this planet. As science communicators how should we represent the science for maximum behaviour change? And who should deliver that message?
Lisa Ryan
John Gibbons
Jim Scheer
Hazel Chu
Philip Boucher Hayes
15:10
Lobby
Coffee / Poster Session
Breakouts
Breakout 4: Would you Look at That?
Breakout session
This workshop will take lessons learned from educational settings (in university programmes including
medicine and management) and show how to apply a visual learning approach in the context of science communication.
The session will begin with a showcase of how this approach has been used in university teaching and
learning, after which participants will be challenged to create, using basic elements, collaboratively,
playfully, experimentally and in a hands-on manner a visual representation of a certain scientific concept
that they wish to broadly communicate, and then share their “creations” and experiences with the rest of
the group. We aim for participants to take away practical ideas about how to include alternative
representations in their science communications practices, while having fun in the process.
JACOB EISENBERG
Mark Pickering
Tom Flanagan
President's Terrace
Breakout 5: Circus Science
Breakout session
Science is scary. It’s a word many flinch from, which is why representation across science, by any indicator, is poor. At Circus250, we believe circus can be
used to support science to reach those it doesn’t usually reach, communicate with and empower them. We do this through interactive performances and
hands-on workshops. It’s ‘science by stealth’. This session would take the form of part performance, part post-show discussion.
Post-show discussion panel around how circus works as a science communication to include:
Angelica Santander
Aoife Raleigh and Maria Corcoran (StrongWomen Science)
Dea Birkett, director Circus250, organisers of Europe’s first Circus Science Festival and forum
Followed by short hands-on circus science workshop for all participants,
demonstrating the principles behind conveying science through circus.
Breakouts
Breakout 6: Circular Economy
Breakout session
The session will be led by AMBER engaged researcher, Sadhbh Crean, who will share
insights that the AMBER Centre has gained through research with stakeholders across industry,
academia, government, and civil society. The session will incorporate the sharing of practices and
methodology involved in carrying out an engaged research project on the circular economy.
Additionally, reflections from varying stakeholders on their perspectives of partaking in this engaged
research project will be explored. The session will prove an excellent opportunity to not only present
the case study example of engaged research on the circular economy, but gain further awareness,
through dialogic exercises, of the attendees’ own views on participation and representation in circular
economy research and policymaking.
16:40
Main Stage
Closing Comments
17:15
Bar
Afterparty
