Join us for the Centre for Science, Health and Data Communication Research Spring Speaker Series The Centre for Science, Health, and Data Communication Research invites you to our Spring 25 speaker series. Featuring researchers from BU and around the world, these online talks are open to the public and encompass topics on the exploitation of seaweed, the adoption and use of VR, communicating numbers, AI migration governance, and using AI to build ‘databases from below’. To see abstracts, bios and register for free, please go to our Eventbrite: http://bu-shdc.eventbrite.com<http://bu-shdc.eventbrite.com/> For a visual version of the speaker line-up see: https://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/2025/02/07/join-us-for-the-centre-f... 19/02/25 Christine Maggs Sustainable exploitation of seaweeds 26/02/2025 Catherine Happer The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age 05/03/2025 Christopher Ball Beyond the Hype: Trends in Virtual Reality Adoption and Use 12/03/2025 Kaelynn Narita Outsourcing UK Migration Governance 19/03/2025 Bodo Winter The Art of Approximation: How We Communicate Numbers Across Modalities 26/03/2025 Bruno Takahashi An identity-based approach to inclusive science communication research and training in the US 02/04/2025 Anna Feigenbaum Using AI to build a ‘Database from Below’: reflections on collecting, coding and quantifying police use of force 30/04/2025 Divina Frau-Meigs When MIL meets AI : Design Considerations 07/05/2025 Lyle Skains TBC 14/05/2025 Gabriel Moreno-Esparza Hybrid Media in the Construction of Biomedical Discourse at the NHS: the case study of #GeordieHospital — Trans Rights are Human Rights — Dr. R. Lyle Skains (LIE-ul skaynz ~ she/her) Associate Professor in Literary Media Senior Fellow, HEA | UKCGE Recognised Research Supervisor Faculty of Media & Communication, Bournemouth University @lskains.bsky.social<https://bsky.app/profile/lskains.bsky.social> lskains@bournemouth.ac.uk<mailto:lskains@bournemouth.ac.uk> | Staff Profile<https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/lskains> | Appointment Bookings<http://bit.ly/BookLyle> — Playable Comms<http://playablecomms.org/>: Interactive Digital Narrative for Health & Science Communication Winner of the 2023 N. Katherine Hayles Award<https://eliterature.org/elo-awards/> for Criticism in Electronic Literature, Neverending Stories: The Popular Emergence of Digital Fiction<https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/neverending-stories-9781501364938/> ________________________________ BU is a Disability Confident Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU AccessAble webpages. This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email.