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SciComm Conversations is the official podcast of the European Competence Centre for Science Communication.
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6 MAR 2026 · We are continuing our series of interviews with science-communication researchers, conducted at the PCST conference in Aberdeen last year.
In this episode, we hear from https://leibniz-psychology.org/profil-marlene-altenmueller, junior professor in Science Acceptance, at https://leibniz-psychology.org/en/.
You can find a full transcript of the episode on the COALESCE website: https://coalesceproject.eu/2026/03/06/scicomm-conversations-s02e06/ SciComm Conversations is released under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ licence.
The COALESCE project is funded by the European Union to establish the European Competence Centre for Science Communication.
Views and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the guests only and do not necessarily reflect those of COALESCE or of the European Union.
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5 MAR 2026 · We are continuing our series of interviews with science-communication researchers, conducted at the PCST conference in Aberdeen last year.
In this episode, we hear from https://hlittle.com/, Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool, on the role of non-human characters in storytelling about science.
You can find a full transcript of the episode on the COALESCE website: https://coalesceproject.eu/2026/02/18/scicomm-conversations-s02e05/ SciComm Conversations is released under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ licence.
The COALESCE project is funded by the European Union to establish the European Competence Centre for Science Communication.
Views and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the guests only and do not necessarily reflect those of COALESCE or of the European Union.
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11 FEB 2026 · In our second season of SciComm Conversations, we speak with science-communication researchers about their work. In this episode, https://sts.cornell.edu/bruce-v-lewenstein from Cornell University explores the question of whether public engagement make science better. Bruce discussed this topic in the context of work done at Cornell’s https://cropps.cornell.edu/.
The interview was recorded at the international conference of the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) network.
You can find a full transcript of the episode on the COALESCE website: https://coalesceproject.eu/2026/02/11/scicomm-conversations-s02e04/ SciComm Conversations is released under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ licence.
The COALESCE project is funded by the European Union to establish the European Competence Centre for Science Communication.
Views and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the guests only and do not necessarily reflect those of COALESCE or of the European Union.
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3 FEB 2026 · In our second season of SciComm Conversations, we speak with science-communication researchers about their work. In the third episode, we hear from https://www.york.ac.uk/education/our-staff/academic/lynda-dunlop/ of the University of York, where she is a senior lecturer and Director of Education for Environmental Sustainability at York. Lynda tells us about https://www.megaverse.co/projects/game-changers, an interactive live show about climate activism, that was part of Megaverse and was funded by UK Research and Innovation.
Find out more about Game Changers in this research paper reporting on the project: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2025.2539476
The interview was recorded at the international conference of the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) network.
You can find a full transcript of the episode on the COALESCE website: https://coalesceproject.eu/2026/02/03/scicomm-conversations-s02e03/
(The music for this episode is courtesy of the Game Changers project and is not covered by the episode’s CC BY 4.0 licence.) SciComm Conversations is released under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ licence.
The COALESCE project is funded by the European Union to establish the European Competence Centre for Science Communication.
Views and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the guests only and do not necessarily reflect those of COALESCE or of the European Union.
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22 DEC 2025 · In our second season of SciComm Conversations, we speak with science-communication researchers about their work. In this episode, we hear from https://stemprov.org/ from the University of Michigan in the US. Nic tells us about the SciComm Identities project, which was presented at the international conference of the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) network.
You can find a full transcript of the episode on the COALESCE website: https://coalesceproject.eu/2025/12/22/scicomm-conversations-s02e02/ SciComm Conversations is released under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ licence.
The COALESCE project is funded by the European Union to establish the European Competence Centre for Science Communication.
Views and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the guests only and do not necessarily reflect those of COALESCE or of the European Union.
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3 SEP 2025 · In our second season of SciComm Conversations, we speak with science-communication researchers about their work. In our first episode, we hear from https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/LauraFoggrogers from the University of the West of England, in the UK. Laura talks about the https://curiosityconnections.net/green-futures/ and providing young people with role models in green jobs.
You can find a full transcript of the episode on the COALESCE website: https://coalesceproject.eu/2025/09/03/scicomm-conversations-s02e01/ SciComm Conversations is released under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ licence.
The COALESCE project is funded by the European Union to establish the European Competence Centre for Science Communication.
Views and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the guests only and do not necessarily reflect those of COALESCE or of the European Union.
11 DEC 2024 · This is a special episode of SciComm Conversations, in which I speak to Dr Viktoria Cologna and Dr Niels Mede about https://osf.io/preprints/osf/6ay7s. Together with colleagues from around the world, Viktoria and Niels studied the responses of nearly 72,000 participants in 68 countries on all inhabited continents. In this episode, they tell us what they found.
You can find a full transcript of the episode on the COALESCE website: https://coalesceproject.eu/2024/12/11/scicomm-conversations-s01e05/ SciComm Conversations is released under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ licence.
The COALESCE project is funded by the European Union to establish the European Competence Centre for Science Communication.
Views and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the guests only and do not necessarily reflect those of COALESCE or of the European Union.
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22 AUG 2024 · In our first season of SciComm Conversations, we are chatting with experts on the topic of science communication in the age of artificial intelligence. In this, our fourth episode of the season, Corragh-May White speaks with Sam Illingworth – poet, games designer and Professor of Creative Pedagogies at Edinburgh Napier University – about generative AI and its role in education. SciComm Conversations is released under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ licence.
The COALESCE project is funded by the European Union to establish the European Competence Centre for Science Communication.
Views and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the guests only and do not necessarily reflect those of COALESCE or of the European Union.
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29 MAY 2024 · In our first season of SciComm Conversations, we are chatting with experts on the topic of science communication in the age of artificial intelligence. In our third episode, we hear from Mohamed Elsonbaty, on using ChatGPT for science communication. Mohamed is vice president of the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) network, co-founder of the Arab Forum of Science Media and Communication, interim board director of Arab Science Journalist Association, and runs the SciComm-AI training programme. SciComm Conversations is released under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ licence.
The COALESCE project is funded by the European Union to establish the European Competence Centre for Science Communication.
Views and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the guests only and do not necessarily reflect those of COALESCE or of the European Union.
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30 APR 2024 · In our first season of SciComm Conversations, we are chatting with experts on the topic of science communication in the age of artificial intelligence. Today, in our second episode, we hear from Professor Jennifer Edmond from Trinity College Dublin on the subject of engaging the public on artificial intelligence. Jennifer has been involved in a number of projects that use theatre and interactive installations to engage people with AI. SciComm Conversations is released under the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ licence.
The COALESCE project is funded by the European Union to establish the European Competence Centre for Science Communication.
Views and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the guests only and do not necessarily reflect those of COALESCE or of the European Union.
SciComm Conversations is the official podcast of the European Competence Centre for Science Communication.
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