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What are the ingredients that make a successful communications partnership? Stempra joined forces with the Healthcare Communications Association to investigate.

In a joint event with the The Association of British Science Writers, Stempra members heard from cognitive neuroscientist Professor Gina Rippon, Katy Losse and statistician Simon White about a new project promoting accurate and responsible communication of research on sex, gender and the brain. Professor Rippon described herself as and an outspoken critic of ‘neurotrash’ […]

With clinical research in the spotlight during the pandemic, and questions about the validity of new reports about vaccines, treatments and more, understanding and explaining how reseach is done, reviewed and pubished is part of the communications role. A guest post by Sabina Alam, Director of Publishing Ethics and Integity, Taylor & Francis Group

When an academic sends you through a paper on which she or he is main author, does your heart sink when you see a long list of collaborators from other institutions? If all institutions involved in the research want a namecheck, it can turn what is otherwise a fairly simple process – write release, secure […]

I work for the Meningitis Research Foundation and some of what we see now in terms of coronavirus communications mirrors what we see when this terrible disease strikes. When there are cases of meningitis, public health teams respond quickly and my team works hard to get accurate information out to worried communities. Monitoring news and […]