OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
I will be speaking about the work of the Science Media Centre, an independent press office that works as a bridge between science and journalism to get scientist’s voices into the breaking science stories which are the headline news of the day; the controversial, messy, or politicised scientific issues and the new studies which may be sensationalised or misrepresented. I will be looking specifically at examples of how researchers in psychiatry have previously done this to highlight and discuss why it’s so important researchers engage with the media on these issues. I will also talk about how the SMC can work with researchers and the support we can provide to help ensure their research is reported in an accurate and measured way so that the public has access to the best evidence on these issues.
