Jul 19, 2019
2:00PM to 3:00PM
Jim Handman is Executive Director of the Science Media Centre of Canada (SMCC). Before joining the SMCC in 2017, he spent 17 years as Executive Producer of the award-winning CBC Radio science program, Quirks & Quarks. During that time, Jim won numerous prizes for science journalism, including the prestigious Walter Sullivan Award from the AGU. He has also taught broadcast journalism at Ryerson University, was Science-Writer-in-Residence at the Journalism School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was the CanWest-Global Fellow in Media at Western University, where he taught a graduate seminar in science journalism.
Jim is a frequent speaker on the topic of science and the media, and also conducts training workshops in communications for scientists in Canada and the U.S.
This public lecture is part of ComSciConCAN, Canada’s first national science communication workshop for graduate students. This unique professional development program aims to help the next generation of leaders in STEM fields develop the skills needed to communicate their research and ideas to their peers, experts in other fields, policy makers, and the general public.
The 2019 ComSciConCAN is held at McMaster University, July 18-20 hosted by the Faculty of Science.
