Category: Promotion
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Babeș-Bolyai University's strategy to bring academia closer to society. An interview with Daniel David
There is a major obstacle for researchers who want to communicate with the public: they have no institutional motivation to do so, quite the contrary. They are judged more on the results of their research (articles, books or chapters, etc.), and not at all on the number of press interviews, community events or experiments they do for children. At absolutely every researcher communication workshop I have given I have been asked this question at some point: So why would I communicate?
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Why promote research: public money for higher education in Romania is below 2008 levels
Public investment in higher education is below the level of 12 years ago (20% less). The number of students has decreased by 31% compared to 2008: the number of employees by 11% (for academic positions) and 3% for administrative positions. The increase in funding from 2015-2018 comes mainly from salary increases.
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Three filters to avoid communicating pseudoscience by mistake
This text is intended as a basic assessment tool for deciding whether a piece of information is credible enough to be turned into either a press release (by a press office) or an article (for journalists). I'll exemplify the ideas on the earthquake prediction news, because it's an interesting case.
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Basic rules for researchers in dealing with journalists
The relationship between researchers and journalists is all the better when both sides understand each other's jobs, limitations and pressures. When I have the time and the researcher has the availability, I try to provide some background information about journalists so that they better understand what to expect. Here I have compiled just the basic ideas.
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