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How social media friendly are Danish Schools of Public Health? Nordic Schools of Public Health? European Schools of Public Health? And which are the most friendly? Can it at all be measured? And what does it mean to score high on social media friendliness? The answers to these questions are not straight forward. But if […]

For the past year, I have here, at the Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Public Health, been working on a research project focusing on the use of social media in the communication of research in public health sciences. The technical report, completed by myself and Professor Thomas Söderqvist, is now ready, and I’m […]

I love blogging. It surprises myself, because I really hadn’t predicted that having a blog would be something I’d get hooked on – or even less did I expect all the things it would bring with it. Extensive networks, new opportunities, great connections and new horizons. Especially the last couple of weeks have shown me […]

How can communicating your research benefit you as a researcher? This was the theme of module 3 of the Public Health Science Communication Course and also a question raised on this blog in a previous post. To my surprise finding good literature on this topic was not easy, but thanks to the help of you […]

Læs nyhedsbrevet for oktober på dansk og engelsk her. Oktober på Medicinsk Museion indledes med champagnebobler, når vi på onsdag åbner vores helt nye udstilling Fedme – Hvad er problemet? I denne udgave af nyhedsbrevet kan du desuden læse om Medicinsk Museions program for Kulturnatten 2012, om museets ændrede åbningstider, om et åbent arrangement om sociale mediers indtog i […]

Click here for October’s newsletter, in English and Danish. October starts with champagne bubbles, as we open our brand new exhibition, Obesity –What’s the problem? on Wednesday. In this edition of the newsletter you can also read about Medical Museion’s programme for Culture Night 2012, the altered opening hours at the museum, an open event on social media’s […]

Science communication and the internet is becoming a topic all over the world. Also France are tuning in on it. A conference next week at the Pasteur Institute brings people together to discuss how science communicated via the internet can help bring science to a wider public. The conference which is entitled ‘Communiquer la science […]

Communicating science is so often focused on transferring knowledge from experts to members of the public. More and more often it is also associate with engaging and communicating with the public. But still with a focus on what the public or the common man gets out of this. But what’s in it for the scientist? How […]

The second module of the course in Public Health Science Communication focused on Translating Science to Traditional Media. On paper a nice and concrete topic – but both choosing literature for the syllabus and preparing for the class proved a little bit more challenging. Because what does ‘translating science’ mean? And is there a recipe […]

For the second module of the course in Public Health Science Communication we’ll be looking at the Translation of public health science to traditional (and new) media. I have asked the students to find and bring examples of public health sciences communicated in news articles, YouTube videos, blog posts, TEDtalks etc. but I was hoping […]

The course Public Health Science Communication went live Wednesday last week! And based on the first experiences it survived the encounter with the students, is still in good shape and looking forward to moving on to module two this coming Wednesday. Since the concept “public health science communication” is still not a household concept and does to […]

Is it possible to talk about empathy directed at a thing? A few weeks ago I visited the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and the exhibition Pink Caviar – New Acquisitions 2009-2011. I watched the video work Bodies of Society by the Swedish architect and performance artist Klara Lidén. To the sound of pop music […]