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Inclusive Science Communication: A Framework to Help Individuals and Institutions
Citation:
Canfield, Katherine. Inclusive Science Communication: A Framework to Help Individuals and Institutions. Association for Independent Research Institutes, NA, Virtual, September 13 - 14, 2021.
Impact/Purpose:
Inclusive science communication (ISC) is a new and broad term that encompasses all efforts to engage specific audiences in conversations or activities about science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) topics, including, but not limited to, public engagement, informal science learning, journalism, and formal science education. Unlike other approaches toward science communication, however, ISC research and practice is grounded in inclusion, equity, and intersectionality, making these concerns central to the goals, design, implementation, evaluation, and refinement of science communication efforts. Together, the diverse suite of insights and practices that inform ISC comprise an emerging movement that can help to inform research design and planning. This presentation will provide examples from the presenters' research on ISC and recommendations for applying key characteristics to research design and planning.
Description:
How are you addressing inclusion, equity, and intersectionality in your communications? Researchers will share results from a study of early leaders in the inclusive science communication movement. Emerging from the InclusiveSciComm Symposium, this study outlines the key traits of "inclusive scicomm" and a framework that science communications practitioners, trainers, educators, and researchers can use to redress the systematic problems of inequitable access to and engagement with STEMM. The format will be a brief presentation, followed by Q&A.
