Hardly a day goes by without reading in the media: ‘Y causes X deaths per year’, where Y can be air pollution, drinking or even noise. Science journalist Arnout Jaspers will show what is fundamentally wrong with this way of quantifying diffuse health effects on a population. There are better alternatives but even major organisations …
Is Global South science under-reported? All too often, in the ‘Global North’, we only hear about crises happening in lower income countries, rather than coverage of the critical research being undertaken by scientists in areas that are most relevant to them. Which fields in particular are under-reported, how, and why? How does the research ecosystem …
Journalists play an essential role in bringing new scientific discoveries to the public. It is essential that they have a thorough understanding of how critical research has been designed, conducted and published, asking probing questions like: has sex and gender been integrated in this research? Are there cultural blindspots in this work? Do we have …
