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Workshop timetable

Monday 29th June

All DayWorkshop 1: Reporting about climate change
Venue: Royal Geographical Society

All DayWorkshop 2: Food security and sustainability - can we avert a food crisis?
Venue: Royal Geographical Society

All DayWorkshop 3: Journalism skills
Venue: Imperial College London

Morning and LunchWorkshop 4: Human disease genetics and emerging infectious diseases
Venue: Wellcome Trust Collection

AfternoonWorkshop 5: Pitfalls of reporting about clinical trials
Venue: Wellcome Trust Collection

09.30 to 15.30Workshop 5B: Podcasting production workshop and Science Museum Antenna Gallery multimedia consultation
Venue: The Science Museum’s Dana Centre

Tuesday 30th June

Morning and LunchWorkshop 6: From Quantum to Cosmos: New frontiers in science
Venue: Central Hall, Westminster

Morning and LunchWorkshop 7: Green energy technologies
Venue: Central Hall, Westminster

Morning and LunchWorkshop 8: Informing attitudes and beliefs about cancer
Venue: Central Hall, Westminster

Morning and LunchWorkshop 9: New media tools
Venue: Central Hall, Westminster

Morning and LunchWorkshop 10: Getting global coverage for science
Venue: Central Hall, Westminster

09.30 to 12Workshop 11: Heritage science: What next?
Venue: Central Hall, Westminster

Session timetable

Tuesday 30th June

12.30 to 13.30Press Briefings and Fringe Events 1-A: Darwin Now Press Briefing

13.30 to 14.30Plenary 1: New media, new journalism?

15.45 to 17.151: Flat Earth News

15.45 to 17.152: Balance not needed? Science journalism and the reporting of creationism

15.45 to 17.153: Science journalism in crisis?

15.45 to 17.154: Great talent, but are they credible?

15.45 to 17.155: The challenges of regional reporting

17.30 to 18.30Plenary 2: How top philanthropists are accelerating science

Wednesday 1st July

08.30 to 09.30Breakfast session 1: Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
Venue: The Royal Society

09.30 to 10.00Press Briefings and Fringe Events 1: Nature press conference

10.00 to 11.00Plenary 3: Climate change: Gearing up for Copenhagen

11.00 to 11.30Press Briefing and Fringe Events 2-A: Sir David King announces The Times/Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment

11.00 to 13.00Press Briefings and Fringe Events 2: Workshop: Pimp my podcast: Using multimedia to enhance your reporting

11.30 to 13.006: Four science journalists who changed the world

11.30 to 13.007: Science on television: Here today, gone tomorrow?

11.30 to 13.008: Recipe for disaster: A growing population and climate change. Can science serve up a solution?

11.30 to 13.009: Does science need to be highbrow?

11.30 to 13.0010: The future of science news?

11.30 to 13.0010-1A: The Big debate: Is the British media the best or worst in the world at covering science?

13.15 to 14.15Lunch session 1: Building research capacity and healthcare solutions in Africa to fight TB, river blindness and malaria

13.15 to 14.15Lunch session 2: UK research: Excellence with impact

13.15 to 14.15Lunch session 3: 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

13.30 to 14.30Lunch session 4: SciDev.Net networking event

13.30 to 14.3010-2A: ABSW's How to publish a popular science book

14.30 to 15.30Press Briefings and Fringe Events 3: Confronting the killers: European health research leads the fight

14.30 to 16.0011: As others see us: Science fiction writers on science journalism

14.30 to 16.0012: Strife at the top: Lord May of Oxford in conversation with Tim Radford

14.30 to 16.0013: Is the growing influence of PR on science journalism in the public interest?

14.30 to 16.0014: Different strokes for different science folk

14.30 to 16.0015: A drought or a flood? Climate change reporting around the world

14.30 to 16.0015-1A: Swine flu or whine flu? Pigging out on scare stories

16.00 to 16.30Press Briefings and Fringe Events 4: The Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research 2009 winner announcement press briefing

16.30 to 18.30Press Briefings and Fringe Events 5: General Assembly of the World Federation of Science Journalists

16.30 to 18.0016: The science controversy that broke the mould: The media battle for human/animal embryos

16.30 to 18.0017: Covering a disaster from Sichuan to Sri Lanka

16.30 to 18.0018: Investigative science reporting: Does it exist?

16.30 to 18.0019: The death of science magazines: Real or exaggerated?

16.30 to 18.0020: Food: The good, the bad and the misreported

Thursday 2nd July

08.30 to 09.30Breakfast session 2: Meet the editors forum

08.30 to 09.30Breakfast session 3: WFSJ Associations' breakfast (by invitation)

09.00 to 09.30Press Briefings and Fringe Events 5-A: Science Press Conference

09.30 to 10.00Press Briefings and Fringe Events 6-A: Research4Life Press briefing

10.00 to 11.00Plenary 4: Editors discuss the future of science journalism

11.00 to 13.00Press Briefings and Fringe Events 6: Workshop: Pimp my podcast: Using multimedia to enhance your reporting

11.30 to 13.0021: Advocacy science journalism

11.30 to 13.0022: Blogs, big physics and breaking news

11.30 to 13.0023: Genetics in the news information in the daily press: a comparison between daily papers in Belgium, Canada and France

11.30 to 13.0024: A picture of health? Who shapes public opinion on pharma?

11.30 to 13.0025: Promises, promises: The Ethics of unbridled optimism

13.15 to 14.15Lunch session 6: An AIDS vaccine: Mission impossible?

13.15 to 14.15Lunch session 7: Global uncertainties: Security for all in a changing world

13.15 to 14.15Lunch session 8: The $1,000 genome is coming: Are we ready?

13.15 to 14.15Lunch session 9: Friendship or Friction: How the media relates to the research community

13.30 to 14.30Press Briefings and Fringe Events 7: Meet the European CDC – a source of data, comment and analysis for science journalists

13.30 to 14.3025-1A: How to start up a science media centre.. and keep it running in top gear

14.30 to 15.30Press Briefings and Fringe Events 8: Nanotechnology: Addressing the risks, fulfilling the promise

14.30 to 16.0026: Embargoes in science reporting: Friend or foe?

14.30 to 16.0027: Reporting cancer breakthroughs: Striking the right note

14.30 to 16.0028: Breakonomics, did careless reporting precipitate the global crisis?

14.30 to 16.0029: Heartbreak and hype: The only way to sell an engineering story

14.30 to 16.0030: Climate change coverage: The messy marriage of science, policy, and politics

16.30 to 17.30Plenary 5: Science based policy making: Advising Government