Spring 2008

From the Chair

New members

Sci Comm news
Eurochat

Feature: Promoting conferences

Feature: Wellcome Collection preview

Feature: WCSJ:2009

Event Report: Working with documentary makers

Event Report: Crisis management

Interview: Alok Jha, The Guardian's Science correspondent

Stempra newsletter - Spring 2008

From the Chair
Katrina Nevin-Ridley welcomes you to 2008 and encourages you to give something back to Stempra. Have you got good ideas for events or meetings? Katrina wants to hear from you!

News:

Upcoming events
New members
Sci Comm news
Eurochat

Features:

University Challenge - Promoting conferences
Alex Waddington, media relations officer at the University of Manchester, considers how to get the best media coverage for academic conferences, without relying on celebrity spats or 'wardrobe malfunctions'.

Wellcome Collection preview - Cupcakes meet Anthony Gormley meet Wi-Fi Access
Mike Findlay from the Wellcome Trust's media office, on why London's most exciting new venue has been nominated for the national Art Fund Prize for its work exploring medicine, life and art.

WCSJ:2009 - Welcome the World
Landing in London in 2009, the World Conference of Science Journalists aims to bring the very best talent into the UK and share with them what we have to offer. Pallab Ghosh and Julie Clayton (President and Executive Director of the conference) are here to sell you a story you won't want to miss.

Event Reports:

Working with TV series and documentary makers
Clare Kingston reports on October's Stempra event, where a tussle broke out between film makers trying to be the next Attenborough, scientists falling over each other dashing for the limelight and PR officers just trying to 'get on with their jobs'.

Crisis management - Foot and Mouth disease outbreak
When Foot and Mouth disease arrived at the BBSRC's Institute for Animal Health last year, Head of Media, Matt Goode found himself simultaneously manning the phones, writing a constant stream of press statements and fending off undercover hacks with his bare hands. Stempra's Claire Bithell reports how you can manage any crisis just as heroically.

Interview:

Alok Jha, The Guardian's Science correspondent
Does the daily news slog get Alok down? What about annoying press officers? Badly planned embargoes? Not a chance, I'd say. Stempra newsletter talks to The Guardian's jolly, bloggy, podcasty science correspondent to find out what goes on in his head.

This newsletter is edited by Claire Bithell, with help from Simon Levey and Simon Wilde. For feedback, comments or suggestions of topics to cover, please contact newsletter@stempra.org.uk

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