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9:30
Main Stage
Welcome: Prof Philip Nolan
Professor Philip Nolan leads Science Foundation Ireland and is responsible for the transition to a new research and innovation agency, launching in 2024. Prof Nolan will open the conference and speak about what the new agency will look like and how the change will affect the science communication landscape.
Claire O'Connell
Philip Nolan
9:55
Main Stage
Fiona Fox
In this session, Fiona Fox from the Science Media Centre in London will talk about the organisation's work in connecting media with academia for more evidence-based reporting. Fiona will explore case studies where the SMC able to intervene in news cycles to correct poor science reporting and give immediate an accurate scientific information to journalists working on break news. Fiona will also discuss the newly announced Irish pilot of the SMC, launching in 2024.
Fiona Fox
10:20
Stage
Do our audiences really understand what's going on with AI?
In this panel, we will explore how we should be communicating artificial intelligence today. Do images of robots help or confuse? Are we over-emphasising the dangers or the limits? How do we talk about AI in a way that is useful for the general public and industry?
Claire Carroll
Marguerite Barry
Cian Hughes
Jonathan McCrea
11:20
Lobby
Coffee / Poster Session
Grab a coffee and mingle!
11:50
Red Stage
Private Parts: How to communicate health research when it's personal.
Breakout session
In this session, we look at communicating the science around menopause and sexual health. How do we talk about supposedly taboo subjects? Is humour appropriate? And where does the science come in?
Dr. Aoife Nic Shamhráin
Zara Molphy
Mohamad Saab
Claire O'Connell
11:50
Black Stage
The Childhood Development Initiative: Doodle Steam
Breakout session
Clare Bohan
Nicola O'Reilly
Gaye Healy
11:50
Blue Stage
Is Our Sci-comm Really Inclusive?
Breakout session
In this breakout, we will hear from three experts in inclusive communication about how to genuinely engage with audiences that are traditionally over looked when it comes to sci-commm.
Jackie Gorman
Mairéad Hurley
Elaine Quinn
Phil Smyth
12:50
Lobby
Lunch / Poster Session
13:50
Main Stage
Toxic Relationships: A Play
Surprise Performance!
14:05
Main Stage
Biodiversity, what's really going on in Ireland?
The Citizen's Assembly on Biodiversity sounded a clear alarm: we need to protect Irish species and habitats before it's too late. But what are we really doing about it?
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin
Eoghan Daltun
Claire O'Connell
Elaine McGoff
15:05
Lobby
Coffee / Poster Session
15:30
Main Stage
Just Stop Oil & Climate Activism
In this session, Alex de Koning from Just Stop Oil will talk about the organisation, its campaigns and goals and how it has been featured in media. Is civil disobedience and disruption effective as a means of science communication.
Alex de Koning
Jonathan McCrea
16:00
Main Stage
Keynote: Richie Sadlier
In this closing keynote, Richie Sadlier (Author, Psychotherapist and football pundit), will talk to us about the realities of being a teenager today and how to communicate with boys about extremely sensitive and private subjects. He will also address a lot of misconceptions when it comes to teenage boys and girls and how they are stereotyped and portrayed in the media and society.