Aims:

Students will obtain experience of undertaking and completing a piece of research, applying techniques learned throughout the programme, including the...

MSc Information Security Dissertation (COMP0064)

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE|ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE|MEMORY HIERARCHY|MULTI-THREADED JAVA PROGRAMMING

Aims:

To provide a working knowledge of the hardware and architecture of a modern computer system, particularly focusing on concurrency aspects and those that...

Computer Architecture and Concurrency (COMP0008)

Science Communications for Biologists will give you a practical introduction to effectively communicating scientific research to different audiences ranging...

Science Communications for Biologists (BIOS0021)

Science Communications for Biologists will give you a practical introduction to effectively communicating scientific research to different audiences ranging from your scientific peers, policy makers, the media and to the general public. Skilled science communication is fast becoming an essential part of a professional scientist’s toolbox and these communication tools are also in high demand in other professions.

The module consists of lectures and workshops delivered by academics and other industry colleagues from within UCL, the Natural History Museum and Zoological Society of London, RSPB and the BBC and other broadcast media companies. Students will also attend other weekly seminar series in GEE, and other relevant seminars at the Natural History Museum and the Zoological Society of London. The course will start off with learning the fundamentals of scientific communication – that is how to read, write and publish a scientific paper. From there you will learn how to communicate scientific research to other audiences through presentations, social media, broadcast media and popular science writing. You will also learn how to directly engage different audiences in research through citizen science and about the opportunities and challenges of communicating research with policy makers to have real-world impact.

Assessment will be made through critical reviews of three scientific topics of your choice in biodiversity, evolution or conservation and these assessments will train you in scientific communication in different formats (written and verbal) and to different audiences (other scientists and the general public). The module runs an active blog site and twitter account which you will be contributing to.