Telling the world about your research

Tuesday 30th January 2024
11am-12 noon (SAST)

Join us to hear experienced researchers give their advice and practical tips about how to communicate effectively about your research to the academic community and the public.

This webinar is the next in our Author Engagement Programme organised under the partnership between Wiley and the South African National Library and Information Consortium. Find out more about how this partnership personally benefits you as an author based at one of the institutions covered by this partnership: https://secure.wiley.com/sanlic.

Bullet Points:

• Find out how the Author Engagement Programme benefits you
• Hear how other early career researchers have engaged with their local and international research communities
• Get tips on how to engage with the public and policy makers
• Get advice on tackling ‘imposter syndrome’

Speaker 1: Dr Divine Fuh (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of HUMA – Institute for Humanities Africa, University of Cape Town)

Divine Fuh, from Cameroon, is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of HUMA – Institute for Humanities Africa at the University of Cape Town. His research focuses on the politics of suffering and smiling, particularly on how urban youth seek ways of smiling in the midst of their suffering. He has carried out research in Cameroon, Botswana, South Africa and Senegal. His new research focuses on the political economy of Pan-African knowledge production; and on Artificial Intelligence and the ethics of being in African contexts.

Speaker 2: Professor Marina Joubert (Associate Professor of Science Communication, Stellenbosch University)

Marina Joubert is an associate professor of science communication at Stellenbosch University in South Africa where she has pioneered teaching, training and research in the field. Her research interests focus on scientists’ roles in public engagement with science, representations of science in the mass media, and online interfaces between science and society. She is the deputy editor of the Journal of Science Communication (JCOM).

Speaker 3: Dr Bianca Davids (Postgraduate Researcher in Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand)

Bianca Davids is a postgraduate researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa who is currently the chair of the International Younger Chemists Network (IYCN). Her volunteer work focuses on the empowering early career researchers within the chemical sciences. Bianca is also an active member of the South African Chemical Institute (SACI) and is heavily involved in the organisation of young chemists' symposiums.

Moderator: Michael Willis (Senior Solutions Manager, Wiley)

Michael has worked in publishing for nearly 25 years. He champions the needs and aspirations of editors, reviewers and authors within journal editorial and peer review processes, advising and speaking on research integrity, publishing ethics, diversity, equity and inclusion, and researcher behaviour. Michael is content and delivery lead for the Wiley-SANLiC Author Engagement Programme.