Bournemouth University’s Science, Health, and Data Communications Research Group invites you to our Spring-Summer 2021 research series. These talks are open to the public, and encompass topics on representations of women scientists in the media, health inequalities and COVID-19, how comics are used for health messages, and how politics drives decisions around health and science. Register for events on EventBrite: http://bu-shdc.eventbrite.com SHDC-RG is an emerging interdisciplinary, cross-faculty group seeking to explore the ways in which specialised knowledge and information is communicated to the public, including policy-makers and front-line workers, and how mass communication (such as journalism and entertainment media) conveys and represents these areas to audiences. -- “We’re saving rich white guys’ history?”: Women scientists, new and imagined pasts, and narratives of science on screen Date: Wednesday, 24 February 2021, 3-4pm GMT Speaker: Dr. Amy C. Chambers, Manchester Metropolitan University -- COVID-19, Health Inequalities, and the Politics of Data Date: Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 3-4pm GMT Speaker: Dr. Justin Feldman, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights -- Utilizing temporal framing as communication strategies to promote health behaviors Date: Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 3-4pm GMT Speaker: Dr. Mengfei Guan, University of Georgia -- Misinformation about COVID-19 and what to do about it Date: Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 3-4pm GMT Speaker: Dr. Jon Roozenbeek, University of Cambridge -- Visual metaphors of ‘frozen’ time in autobiographical comics about depression Date: Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 3-4pm GMT Speaker: Dr. Elisabeth El Refaie, Cardiff University -- Exploring cartoonists representations of the coronavirus pandemic: a cross national study of Australia, South Africa, and the UK Date: Thursday, 20 May 2021, 3-4pm GMT Speaker: Dr. Emma Weitkamp, University of the West of England -- TBA Date: Wednesday, 26 May 2021, 3-4pm GMT Speaker: Steen Steensen -- The cost of ideologically driven political decision making in a pandemic Date: Wednesday, 16 June 2021, 3-4pm GMT Speaker: Prof. Ann Hemingway, Bournemouth University -- See more details and register for any and all events on EventBrite: http://bu-shdc.eventbrite.com -- Series convened by Drs. Xin Zhao and Lyle Skains Science, Health, and Data Communications Research Group Bournemouth University -- Dr. R. Lyle Skains Senior Lecturer, Health & Science Communication Faculty of Media & Communication Bournemouth University lskains@bournemouth.ac.uk<mailto:lskains@bournemouth.ac.uk> she/her -- Playable Comms<http://playablecomms.org/>: Interactive Digital Narrative for Health & Science Communication ________________________________ 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.