Publish Date:
Friday, April 20, 2018 - 09:45
Fresh Science nominations Closing Soon
Nominations close on Tuesday 24 April for the Fresh Science national competition that helps early-career researchers find and share their discoveries.
Fresh Science are looking for any early-career researchers who has peer-reviewed results, a discovery, or an invention that has received little or no media attention.
The program takes up-and-coming researchers with no media experience and turns them into spokespeople for science, giving them a taste of life in the limelight, with a day of media training and a public event in their home state.
Fresh Science is looking for:
• early-career researchers (from honours students to no more than five years post-PhD)
• a peer-reviewed discovery that has had little or no media coverage
• some ability to present ideas in everyday English.
How to nominate
Check out the selection criteria, read ahead and see what questions will be asked, then go online and nominate via the online application form.
Nominations close midnight on Tuesday 24 April.
The training and events will be held in July
What’s involved?
In each state, ten applicants are selected.
Selected applicants will receive:
• A day of media training.
• A short profile about their work written in a media-friendly way, published online and via social media.
• The chance to step on stage and present their science to a friendly audience.
• The winner’s story will be written up as a press release and issued to the media.
Fresh Science is brought to you by Science in Public
Fresh Science Queensland is delivered by Econnect Communication and is supported by the Queensland Government, QUT, Griffith University, and the University of Queensland.
Now in its 21st year, Fresh Science has trained over 500 scientists to share their science, and generated hundreds of news stories via TV, print, radio and online.
