Fan Mo
Fernanda Bajanca
Quentin Loisel
SCIENTISTS TALES EVENT - Science can’t exist without telling a story
Scientists often struggle to communicate the findings of research. Our subject matter can be technical and not easily digested by a general audience. However, only with a story, findings can be communicated. Stories are the most powerful way to communicate information. Our audiences need stories to help them remember. So, we must tell the right stories about our findings. Only then, they can become part of the received knowledge that drives the possibility of scientific progress.
Event: MCAA UK Chapter is organizing a day training event on how to tell a story with the support of International Storyteller Clare Murphy. Working with Clare you will identify your story and work on how to present it in public events. It is a great opportunity to work with her on storytelling skills. We are including the link to her website (http://claremurphy.org/) as well as a couple of links to videos of her telling stories (1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHw2L3YTIVM and 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fCQ4niIfbg).
Date and Place: The training will be held on Saturday 13 April 2019 from 10am to 5:30pm with one-hour break at lunch time (lunch will not be provided) in Central London. The location of the event will make known as early as is feasible.
Registration: If you are interested, let us know by email (Marianna Marchesi – marchesim@cardiff.ac.uk and Elisabetta Li Destri Nicosia - elisabetta.lidestri@hta.co.uk) within Monday 28 January 2019. The workshop will be fully paid by the MCAA UK Chapter. Travel, accommodation and daily expenses of participants will not be covered. Due to size limitations of the available space, the number of participants will be restricted to the maximum permitted amount. The selection will be performed according to the chronological order of submissions.
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Dear Marie Curie Alumni,
Please find below a CfP that I believe could be potentially relevant for the fellows attending this event.
Many thanks in advance,
Paula Pérez Sobrino
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Dear Colleagues,
I would like to make you aware of an interdisciplinary Call for Papers titled “Science of Stories” that I am co-editing for the multidisciplinary, open-access journal PLOS ONE. We encourage submissions on (1) exploring the nature of narrative and narrative thinking in texts and other media (including social media); (2) proposing methods to extract stories from datasets and vice versa; (3) analyzing how narratives are transformed and how they cooperate or compete with each other as they move through time and space; and (4) communicating data-rich narratives to the public.
The leading Guest Editors for this project are Peter Dodds, Mirta Galesic, Mohit Iyyer and Matthew Jockers. The accepted papers will form a PLOS Collection, to be published in late autumn 2019. Contributions should be submitted by 01 June 2019.
The journal PLOS ONE is published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS), a non-profit open access publisher and advocacy organization and selects submissions for scientific rigour rather than perceived impact. To promote openness and transparency in research, PLOS mandates all data underlying the results of each paper be made openly available upon publication.
We are particularly keen on contributing to transparency and reproducibility in science with this Call for Papers and are hence asking all authors to make source code associated with their submissions openly available.
You can find more information here https://collections.plos.org/s/science-of-stories.
I would be thankful if you could forward this to your relevant colleagues.
Yours,
Paula Pérez Sobrino
Applied Linguistics Department
ETSI Informáticos
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
c/Ciruelos, 2
Boadilla del Monte
28660 Madrid
paula.perez.sobrino@upm.es
www.multimodalmetaphor.com