What if you could broadcast your research to millions of people and make your work widely known?
At first, most of us would think this is a dream come true to our scientist career. However, how would you actually feel?
Sikkert livredd.
To broadcast your research also means to become vulnerable. Any expert could question your methods. Or even worse, someone could ask a question you don’t know how to answer.
It is a funny thought that scientists can feel insecure about their own work – even though we spend years collecting data and searching for references. But the thing is that most of us is not very confident about what we do. And we doubt ourselves:
Leste jeg nok til å bli godt forankret?
Er hovedspørsmålet for forskningen min virkelig relevant?
Forklarer jeg konklusjonene og funnene mine på en korrekt måte?
Exposing our research doesn’t feel like a great achievement. In fact, it feels more like a massive examination board.
Despite being a fact, all this fear prevent us from doing our most important job: communicating science.
Every relevant research will be broadcasted by someone. The media usually owns this job. However, they don’t do it very well. We are tired of listenning about scientific based information that are actually a distortion of a real study.
Hvem er da bedre egnet enn forskere til å presentere sin egen forskning?
The struggle of science communication is already being bypassed. Scientists are using their creativity to simplify things and deliver quality information. We have some examples to follow in our post “Science communication and its gap”.
Forskerkarrieren innebærer mye ansvar. Hvis du har eierskap til arbeidet ditt, bør du også bry deg om hvordan forskningen din formidles. Som forskere bør vi alle være pådrivere for hvordan vitenskapelig informasjon formidles.
Abonner på nyhetsbrevet vårt
Eksklusivt innhold av høy kvalitet om effektiv visuell
kommunikasjon innen vitenskap.
