• Question: What does a physicist and science communicator do?

    Asked by anon-205638 to Kathryn on 4 Mar 2019.
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      Kathryn Boast answered on 4 Mar 2019:


      A science communicator is someone who takes ideas or news or discoveries in science and communicates them to an audience of people who aren’t specialists in that science. This could be writing about science – being a science journalist for a newspaper or website – or broadcasting, either on radio or TV or online, or finding some other way to communicate the ideas, like in a live stage show, or through art, or something completely different. A physicist is someone who studies or researches physics. So a physicist and science communicator will find ways to explore the ideas in physics in a way that is intelligible and interesting to non-physicists.
      Practically, science communication is often very varied and allows you to try lots of different things – which is one of my favourite things about the job!

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