Vainieri, Isabella;
Thackeray, Lisa;
Hillman, Saul;
Perez, Alejandra;
Roberts, Ruth;
Panagiotopoulou, Elena;
(2024)
Evaluating podcasts as a science communication assessment for postgraduate students.
Innovations in Education and Teaching International
, 61
(6)
pp. 1446-1459.
10.1080/14703297.2023.2267047.
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Abstract
Communication to the lay audience is a critical skill in academia. To equip students with this skill, we developed a new workshop and assessment. Postgraduate students attended a 1.5-hour workshop taught by a communication expert to develop communication skills and deliver engaging presentations. They were then asked to develop a 10-minute podcast to present their research dissertation (including background, aims, methods, analysis, preliminary findings, challenges, and importance) to a non-academic audience. Feedback from 15 postgraduate students and reflections from four staff members were gathered and examined. Our results show that both the workshop and podcasts improved students’ confidence in science communication, but some adjustments were suggested. Staff reflections were in line with students’ feedback highlighting that the assessment was effective in teaching the importance of communicating their research in an accessible way. Overall, podcasts can be used as an alternative assessment tool to teach science communication.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Evaluating podcasts as a science communication assessment for postgraduate students |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14703297.2023.2267047 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2023.2267047 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Science communication; podcast; assessments; higher education; postgraduate students |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204446 |
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