Research Comms
Welcome to Research Comms, the place where research communication specialists can find useful information, insights, resources and inspiration for sharing knowledge in the digital age.
Research Comms Podcast: How can we improve understanding of artificial intelligence to make sure it works for everyone?
Sophie McIvor is Director of Communications and Engagement at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national centre for data science and artificial intelligence. In this episode of Research Comms we discuss why the public needs to be engaging with emerging technologies like AI, how people have more power than they think when it comes to influencing the progression of such technologies, and the importance of participatory research.
Research Comms Podcast: Astronomer Royal, Lord Martin Rees, on a life of public engagement with science
In this episode of the Research Comms Podcast I talk to Lord Rees about his concerns for the future, how he is actually an optimist at heart, what prompted him to take public engagement seriously, and what other scientists need to be doing to become more engaged and active as citizens.
Research Comms Podcast: Interview with AI expert, Dr Kanta Dihal
This week’s guest on the Research Comms podcast is Dr Kanta Dihal, a Senior Research Fellow from Cambridge University’s Leverhulme Centre for Future Intelligence, where she runs 'Global AI Narratives', a project exploring the many ways in which artificial intelligence is perceived by cultures around the world.