Thank you from WCSJ2009 London - please give us your feedback!

Thank you for attending the 6^th World Conference of Science Journalists 2009 in London this summer – now please help us to continue to improve by completing our feedback form!

London called for science journalists and received a resounding reply! Over 1,000 attendees descended on London from over 70 countries for five days of jam-packed activity. In the sweltering London heat (proving that the sun can shine in the UK!) our delegates consumed over 5565 cups of tea and got through more than 500 litres of water!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skills building workshops, science briefings, post conference trips and many social events took place, along with the world-class conference programme featuring the top names in the science media.

All of this would not have been possible without the support of the lead and major conference sponsors:

Department for International Development (DFID)
British Council Darwin Now

European Commission, Directorate General Research

European School of Oncology

Johnson & Johnson

Joint Research Centre - European Commission

Qatar Foundation

Research Councils UK

And a thanks also goes to all other sponsors who contributed to the conference success.

We also wish to acknowledge support from the following organisations who provided seed funding to help us in the early development stages of WCSJ2009:

EurekAlert!, Nature, The Royal Society, Wellcome Trust, WFSJ

The conference buzz lives on with the WCSJ2009 news website being constantly updated with news, session summaries, photos, podcasts, vodcasts, tweets and blog posts; see www.wcsjnews.org

Speaker presentations are now available by clicking here or going to: http://www.wcsjnews.org/page/conference-programme. Audio files will be available here shortly - so please keep checking back.

WCSJ2011 – The 7^th World Conference of Science Journalists will take place in Cairo, Egypt, following a successful bid by the Arab Science Journalists Association and the US National Association of Science Writers. We shall keep you informed of new developments.

Two vital surveys!

Your feedback is invaluable in helping to ensure that the WCSJ 2011 conference in Cairo is even better. We have already had a strong response to the Conference Evaluation form (distributed at the Conference as a white 1-page handout). If you did not get a chance to complete this at the conference, please take 5 minutes now to complete the form online by clicking here.

Separately, The London School of Economics is also conducting research on ‘The Future of Science Journalism’. This survey will add to the growing body of research on the rapid changes taking place for science journalism, so do please take the time to complete it. Click here for the survey.

Thank you once again for ensuring that the WCSJ2009 conference achieved its aim of bringing together established and aspiring reporters, writers and science communicators from around the world to debate, network and contribute to the future of science journalism.
The WCSJ Conference Team