NERC Engaging Environments: Future of Our Seas public engagement training opportunity

Dear All,

Please see below and attached for an excellent opportunity to gain skills in public engagement relevant to the seas and oceans. For any queries or to apply, please contact Raeanne Miller (cc'ed) directly.

Best wishes,
Sian

NERC Engaging Environments: Future of Our Seas public engagement training opportunity

On June 12-14, we will be hosting a free NERC Future of Our Seas training event, at the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Oban. It is the second event that the NERC Future of Our Seas project will be hosting in 2018, which takes a fresh and dynamic look at public engagement, going beyond traditional science communication approaches to include learning from psychologists, artists, creatives, media professionals, and community groups. We want to build on the growing, nationwide conversations about the future of our seas, and help researchers to develop new and exciting ways to engage people in their work.

Feedback from our previous event in Plymouth included:

"dynamic and engaging"

"totally out of the box"

"a unique take on scicomm"

"not your average training!"

We'd love to have a great Scottish turnout - more information is attached, an below are a few pictures from the event we hosted in Plymouth as part of Plymouth Pirate Weekend - everyone had great fun! The Oban version will be hosting a similar event in July as part of the West Highland Sailing week. Also check out www.futureofourseas.org for more information!

I'm happy to answer any questions you might have - applications are due this Friday June 1st!

--  Dr Sian Henley    NERC Independent Research Fellow  School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, UK