{"id":1175,"date":"2021-11-29T17:03:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T17:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2021-11-29T17:03:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T17:03:54","slug":"how-to-tell-stories-with-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/2021\/11\/29\/how-to-tell-stories-with-science\/","title":{"rendered":"How to tell stories with science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">A FREE online talk by Alok Jha &#8211; Science and Technology Correspondent for the Economist\n<\/p>\n<p>The Division of Natural Sciences, in collaboration with Student Success, is delighted to welcome Inspirational Speaker <strong>Alok Jha<\/strong>, author, broadcaster, and Science and Technology Correspondent for the Economist, who will be explaining &#8216;<strong>How to Tell Stories with Science<\/strong>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScience is one of the most useful, most fascinating, most creative inventions of the human mind. But no-one will know that unless you (scientists, that is) talk about it. But how do you get people to listen?\u00a0Science is the cornerstone of modern life, but it is also complex, counter-intuitive and can be alienating. How should those who are trained in it help spread the joy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this talk Alok will tell you what he\u2019s learned about good and bad science communication.<\/p>\n<p>This FREE to attend event is open to all students and staff, and will be taking place on Microsoft Teams.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/alok-jha-how-to-tell-stories-with-science-tickets-217592814967\">Please click here to book your free place online<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to receive the event link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A FREE online talk by Alok Jha &#8211; Science and Technology Correspondent for the Economist The Division of Natural Sciences, in collaboration with Student Success, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/2021\/11\/29\/how-to-tell-stories-with-science\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60919,"featured_media":1176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131566,223254,240373,209594,112454,153677,6598,1,153673],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentsuccess-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}