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What’s in a Name? Exploring the Nomenclature of Science Communication in the UK [version 2] (2015)
Journal Article
Illingworth, S., Redfern, J., Millington, S., & Gray, S. (2015). What’s in a Name? Exploring the Nomenclature of Science Communication in the UK [version 2]. F1000Research, 4, Article 409. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.6858.2

This study, via a consideration of the literature, and a limited survey of active science communicators, presents concise and workable definitions for science outreach, public engagement, widening participation, and knowledge exchange, in a UK contex... Read More about What’s in a Name? Exploring the Nomenclature of Science Communication in the UK [version 2].

Fresh thinking about academic development: authentic, transformative, disruptive? (2015)
Journal Article
Loads, D., & Campbell, F. (2015). Fresh thinking about academic development: authentic, transformative, disruptive?. International Journal for Academic Development, 20(4), 355-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2015.1083866

We highlight three ways of conceptualising and enacting academic development: firstly as authentic, practice-based activity, secondly in terms of a new transformative paradigm for academic development units (ADUs), and thirdly as a space for disrupti... Read More about Fresh thinking about academic development: authentic, transformative, disruptive?.

Flexibility of bunyavirus genomes: creation of an orthobunyavirus with an ambisense S segment (2015)
Journal Article
van Knippenberg, I., & Elliott, R. (2015). Flexibility of bunyavirus genomes: creation of an orthobunyavirus with an ambisense S segment. Journal of Virology, 89(10), https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.03595-14

The Bunyamwera (BUNV) orthobunyavirus NSs protein has proven a challenge to study in the context of viral infection. NSs is encoded in a reading frame that overlaps that of the viral nucleocapsid (N) protein thus limiting options for mutagenesis. In... Read More about Flexibility of bunyavirus genomes: creation of an orthobunyavirus with an ambisense S segment.

Does attending a large science event enthuse young people about science careers? (2015)
Journal Article
Illingworth, S., Lewis, E., & Percival, C. (2015). Does attending a large science event enthuse young people about science careers?. Journal of Science Communication, 14(2), https://doi.org/10.22323/2.14020206

A survey was conducted during the University of Manchester’s 2014 ‘Science Extravaganza’, which saw the participation of over 900 Key Stage 3 (ages 11–14) students in a range of interactive demonstrations, all run by active University researchers. Th... Read More about Does attending a large science event enthuse young people about science careers?.

Interactive and Interdisciplinary Student Work: A Facilitative Methodology to Encourage Lifelong Learning (2015)
Journal Article
Blake, J., & Illingworth, S. (2015). Interactive and Interdisciplinary Student Work: A Facilitative Methodology to Encourage Lifelong Learning. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 17(2), 108-118. https://doi.org/10.5456/WPLL.17.2SI.107

In order to support and facilitate continuous learning and a growth mindset, it is essential that students be exposed to learning opportunities that explicitly allow them to apply and practice what they have learned. (Dweck, 2007)This paper focuses o... Read More about Interactive and Interdisciplinary Student Work: A Facilitative Methodology to Encourage Lifelong Learning.

An Extended, Problem-Based Learning Laboratory Exercise on the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases Suitable for Large Level 1 Undergraduate Biology Classes (2015)
Journal Article
Tatner, M., & Tierney, A. (2016). An Extended, Problem-Based Learning Laboratory Exercise on the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases Suitable for Large Level 1 Undergraduate Biology Classes. Journal of Biological Education, 50(1), 54-60. https://doi.org/10.1

The development and evaluation of a two-week laboratory class, based on the diagnosis of human infectious diseases, is described. It can be easily scaled up or down, to suit class sizes from 50 to 600 and completed in a shorter time scale, and to dif... Read More about An Extended, Problem-Based Learning Laboratory Exercise on the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases Suitable for Large Level 1 Undergraduate Biology Classes.

Developing key skills as a science communicator: Case studies of two scientist-led outreach programmes (2015)
Journal Article
Illingworth, S. M., & Roop, H. A. (2015). Developing key skills as a science communicator: Case studies of two scientist-led outreach programmes. Geosciences, 5(1), 2-14. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences5010002

Outreach by scientific researchers in school classrooms often results in widespread benefit for learners, classroom teachers and researchers. This paper presents a consideration of these benefits using two case studies in the Geography, Earth and Env... Read More about Developing key skills as a science communicator: Case studies of two scientist-led outreach programmes.

Crowdsourcing for climate and atmospheric sciences: Current status and future potential (2015)
Journal Article
Muller, C., Chapman, L., Johnston, S., Kidd, C., Illingworth, S., Foody, G., …Leigh, R. (2015). Crowdsourcing for climate and atmospheric sciences: Current status and future potential. International Journal of Climatology, 35(11), 3185-3203. https://doi

Crowdsourcing is traditionally defined as obtaining data or information by enlisting the services of a (potentially large) number of people. However, due to recent innovations, this definition can now be expanded to include ‘and/or from a range of pu... Read More about Crowdsourcing for climate and atmospheric sciences: Current status and future potential.