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Thinking about going freelance in comms? Some insider tips to get started
Clare Green, Media and Communications Officer at the Francis Crick Institute and Stempra committee member shares practical tips from three experienced comms freelancers.
Tips for getting the most out of EurekAlert!
Jennifer Holshue, Deputy Director - Editorial Operations at EurekAlert! provides insights for Press Officers and Communicators for using EurekAlert! following their member surveys.
Have you ever been commsplained to?
Kasia Kokowska, Glasgow Changing Futures Communications Specialist at the University of Glasgow, explores commsplaining and shares her tips on turning commsplainers’ enthusiasm to your advantage.
Stempra Star – Amy Shergold
This newsletter’s Stempra Star is Amy Shergold who is Senior Research Communications Officer at Breast Cancer Now What is your job and how did you get there?I am the senior research communications officer at Breast Cancer Now. In a previous life I was studying for my PhD in cancer immunology. I loved learning, talking, and […]
Promoting clear writing in academia: why readability matters
Freelance Communications Consultant Anneliese Levy shares tips on enhancing clarity in technical writing and why it matters.
Climate impact of AI: a lack of consensus and the challenge for communications
The environmental costs of building and running AI models are coming into sharper focus. Yet it’s unclear whether AI’s impact on the environment outweighs the benefits it brings. In this blog, we explore this and look at some of the ways we, as communicators, can help.
Useful Links
- Stempra Guides
- 2019 Stempra Guide To Being A Media Officer
- Preprints: A checklist for press officers
- Specific topics
- General guides
- Sense About Science guide for scientists on how to deal with the media
- Using statistics in the media
- Resources from the Royal Statistical Society
- Making sense of statistics from Sense about Science
- Dealing with controversial issues
- The Science Media Centre’s page for press officers
- Media copyright
- Factsheet on UK copyright law
- International media
- BBC’s guides to the media landscape in each country
- Science Media Centres around the world
- Peer review
- A Peer Review guide from Sense about Science
- Useful science conferences
- The AAAS conference
- World Conference of Science Journalists
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