Conference timetable
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Also available
Also available are lists of 2009's speakers and producers with detailed profiles and sessions in which they participated as well as a complete detailed list of this year's sessions, press briefings and fringe events, pre-conference workshops, post-conference trips and social events.
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Monday
Skills Building Workshops and Science Briefings in South Kensington and other venues
Skills Building Workshops and Science Briefings
- Reporting about climate change
session details > - Food security and sustainability - can we avert a food crisis?
session details > - Human disease genetics and emerging infectious diseases
session details > - Pitfalls of reporting about clinical trials
session details > - Journalism skills
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Media Reception, The Science Museum, South Kensington.
Reception host: Science Museum
Co-sponsor: The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Tuesday
Skills Building Workshops and Science Briefings and Lunch
Skills Building Workshops and Science Briefings
- From Quantum to Cosmos: New frontiers in science
session details > - Green energy technologies
session details > - Informing attitudes and beliefs about cancer
session details > - New media tools
session details > - Getting global coverage for science
session details > - Heritage science: What next?
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- Flat Earth News
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web link > - Balance not needed? Science journalism and the reporting of creationism
session details > - Science journalism in crisis?
session details > - Great talent, but are they credible?
session details > - The challenges of regional reporting
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Welcome Reception at Conference Venue
Co-sponsor: lightsources.org
Co-sponsor: Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
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Themed breakfasts
- Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
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Parallel sessions
- Four science journalists who changed the world
session details > - Science on television: Here today, gone tomorrow?
session details > - Recipe for disaster: A growing population and climate change. Can science serve up a solution?
session details > - Does science need to be highbrow?
session details > - The future of science news?
session details > - The Big debate: Is the British media the best or worst in the world at covering science?
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Lunch break
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- ABSW's How to publish a popular science book
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Lunch sessions
- Building research capacity and healthcare solutions in Africa to fight TB, river blindness and malaria
session details > - UK research: Excellence with impact
session details > - The rise of the Middle East’s “Bayt Al-Hikma” (House of Wisdom): Developing Qatar as the region’s leading center for science, research and education
session details > - SciDev.Net networking event
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- As others see us: Science fiction writers on science journalism
session details > - Strife at the top: Lord May of Oxford in conversation with Tim Radford
session details > - Is the growing influence of PR on science journalism in the public interest?
session details > - Different strokes for different science folk
session details > - A drought or a flood? Climate change reporting around the world
session details > - Swine flu or whine flu? Pigging out on scare stories
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- The science controversy that broke the mould: The media battle for human/animal embryos
session details > - Covering a disaster from Sichuan to Sri Lanka
session details > - Investigative science reporting: Does it exist?
session details > - The death of science magazines: Real or exaggerated?
session details > - Food: The good, the bad and the misreported
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Gala Reception at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington
Reception Hosts: Natural History Museum
Co-sponsor: AEA Technology
Co-sponsor: Johnson & Johnson
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Themed breakfasts
- Meet the editors forum
session details > - WFSJ Associations' breakfast (by invitation)
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- Advocacy science journalism
session details > - Blogs, big physics and breaking news
session details > - Genetics in the news information in the daily press: a comparison between daily papers in Belgium, Canada and France
session details > - A picture of health? Who shapes public opinion on pharma?
session details > - Promises, promises: The Ethics of unbridled optimism
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- How to start up a science media centre.. and keep it running in top gear
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Lunch sessions
- An AIDS vaccine: Mission impossible?
session details > - Global uncertainties: Security for all in a changing world
session details > - The $1,000 genome is coming: Are we ready?
session details > - Friendship or Friction: How the media relates to the research community
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- Embargoes in science reporting: Friend or foe?
session details > - Reporting cancer breakthroughs: Striking the right note
session details > - Breakonomics, did careless reporting precipitate the global crisis?
session details > - Heartbreak and hype: The only way to sell an engineering story
session details > - Climate change coverage: The messy marriage of science, policy, and politics
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Farewell party at Conference venue
Co-sponsor: Research4Life
Co-sponsor: Government Office for Science
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