The Australian Emergency Management Knowledge Hub
In my research on the use of social media in emergency management and communication and my hunt for good case studies, I have come across a knowledge hub, that I thought I’d share with you. I was of course introduced to it by wonderful people on Twitter (thank you Eva Alisic).
The website is called The Australian Emergency Management Knowledge Hub and is still a BETA version of the Knowledge Hub, but a good BETA version. It provides easy access to evidence-based research and other research as wells as news relevant to emergency management, including statistics and information, photos, video and media about past ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - April 10, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: aesthetics photography public health science communication Australia disaster disaster events emergency management knowledge hub prepardness Social media Twitter Source Type: blogs
Public health science communication – an 8th goal for public health training in the 21st century
In the latest issue of the European Journal of Public Health, a wish list for what public health training should look like in the 21st century is giving by Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: Seven goals for public health training in the 21st century
Having a bachelor and masters degree in public health sciences from University of Copenhagen, I know for a fact that at least in a Danish context public health science communication has not been part of the curriculum for public health students in the later part of the 20th or the first part of the 21st cen...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - April 3, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication European Journal of Public Health goals london school of hygiene and tropical medicine martin mckee masters degree in public health public health communication public health students public health traini Source Type: blogs
A research spirit and experimental attitude in museums
Ken Arnold (Wellcome Collection) and I had a joint sesssion titled “Integrating research, acquisitioning, curation, exhibition making and events in museums” at the Danish national museum meeting in Horsens, two weeks ago. Based on this predistributed session abstract:
Drawing on our experiences from the Medical Museion and the Wellcome Collection, respectively, we suggest that a successful and productive integration of these functions of the museum does not involve creating organisational structures, but rather the cultivation of curiosity and a ‘will to inquire’. A research spirit can stimulate exhibit...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - March 26, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: aesthetics Source Type: blogs
Biohacking – Do It Yourself: New online exhibition
Visit the new online version of Biohacking – Do It Yourself! and explore the open biology lab at Medical Museion through photos, recipes, texts and videos:
In the online exhibition you can look at pictures and videos from events in the open lab, browse through links to hacker spaces around the world as well as loads of photos, read articles about the exhibition or try our basic biohack recipes and Do It Yourself! (Source: Biomedicine on Display)
Source: Biomedicine on Display - March 21, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Astrid Mo Tags: displays/exhibits Studiolab web resources biohacking biohacking events DIY biology online exhibition synthetic biology Source Type: blogs
More disaster management & social media
Sometimes opportunities presents themselves out of the blue. When I was asked to give a lecture on social media in emergency settings at the Master of Disaster Management at University of Copenhagen, I didn’t quite feel like an expert on the topic (as I wrote about in an earlier post). But it did not take much research to realised that the combination of social media and disaster/emergency management is super interesting and an example of how social media can play a role in saving lives. It doesn’t get much more public health relevant than that.
Both preparing for the lecture and teaching was a good experience...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - March 18, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: aesthetics public health science communication Bornholm disaster communication disaster management emergencies emergency management Facebook Master of Disaster Management Safe&Well snow blizzard Social media Source Type: blogs
Experiencing the familiar in new ways
In the spirit of this weekend’s workshop It’s Not What You Think in Copenhagen, I am posting a few observations from my visit to the Medical Museion last April.
The trip originated from a discussion about a contemporary museum for the blind in Kaunus, Lithuania and what we (the sighted) could learn from an institution that devoted all its energies towards such a radical shift in visitor experience. One of the high-lights of my April visit, therefore, was a tour by Jan Eric Olsén and Emma Peterson to the former Danish Museum of Blind History.
The blind collection was once part of a historic teaching and therap...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - March 7, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Pantalony Tags: aesthetics of biomedicine collections Experiences of Ageing university museums Source Type: blogs
Digital methods and STS: Talkin’ the talk and walkin’ the walk
Have an interest STS and/or digital methods? Curious as to what they are and what the fuss is all about? Want to explore Copenhagen by foot? Enjoy beer? If you answered yes to any of these, then come and take part in the digital methods ‘talk-walk’ on the 8th of March. The idea comes from STS-talk-walkers in Amsterdam and Oxford, two hotbeds for the study of digital methods. It not only provides a chance to discuss digital methods and STS with people from a variety of backgrounds, but by getting off the bicycles it gives a chance to see Copenhagen at a slower pace, from different angles. You’d be surprise...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - March 6, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Adrian Bertoli Tags: public engagement science and technology studies social networking Source Type: blogs
Are human remains inappropriate for younger audiences?
A few days ago I received a notice from Youtube about one of our videos. Apparently someone had marked it “inappropriate” and following review by Youtube staff the video was age-restricted.
The video in question is part of a series called “Favourite Things“, in which museum staffers select one of their favourite museum objects and describes it and why it is so special. In this particular video, Collections Manager Ion Meyer, is showing and describing three preparations of a so-called ischiopagus. That is, twins conjoined at the pelvis.
Since the video was published in March 2011 it has had almost 22...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - February 24, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Daniel Noesgaard Tags: human remains video youtube @en Source Type: blogs
Bioartist Oron Catts speaking at Medical Museion
As part of the upcoming workshop “It’s Not What You Think: Communicating Medical Materialities”, we are delighted to announce that the pioneering bioartist Oron Catts will be giving a public keynote lecture on Friday March 8th at 17.00 in the auditorium at Medical Museion.
Oron Catts is a prominent and defining figure in the emerging field of bioarts, which examines shifting perceptions of life through the lens of the life sciences. Famous for his work with The Tissue Culture and Art Project, he also co-founded the bioart lab SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia.
Here is the title and abstract for the ta...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - February 15, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Adam Bencard Tags: abstracts aesthetics of biomedicine art and biomed art and science conferences material studies seminars Source Type: blogs
Social media and disaster management
Social media and public health is a diverse field, and there is always some new corner to explore! These days I am increasing my knowledge on the use of social media for disaster management and coordination. The reason for this is that I next week will be giving a lecture on the topic to students at the Master of Disaster Management at University of Copenhagen.
It has been exiting to dig into a new field and to experience how social media really presents great new opportunities, but of course also new challenges. Since I haven’t previously worked specifically with disaster management, I choose a few weeks ago to ask ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - February 14, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication #smem blogging disaster management earthquake emergencies Facebook idisaster2.0 Japan Master of Disaster Management sm4em Social media technology Twitter University of Copenhagen www.sm4em. Source Type: blogs
The material life-course of a scientist: are biographical exhibitions possible?
I’ve had this call for papers for the ‘The Return of Biography: Reassessing Life Stories in Science Studies’ workshop at Science Museum on 18 July laying on my desktop for months:
The lived life serves as an organising principle across disciplines. We talk of the biographies of things and places, and we use personal narratives to give shape to history. Biography is central to historians’ work but often unacknowledged and untheorised: it is used to inspire and to set examples, and to order our thinking about the world, but is a primarily a literary mode; biographies written for popular audiences prov...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - February 4, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: biography draft papers etc individuality seminars Source Type: blogs
Opening the biohacking lab at Medical Museion
Here’s my short speech at the opening of Biohacking: Do it yourself! last Thursday evening:
In true hacker style, this opening is somewhat ad hoc-ish. We will spend about 20 minutes up here in the old auditorium; several people will say a few introductory words each, in several languages.
Then — because there isn’t room for us all down there — the speakers will go downstairs to the biohacker lab, where they will make the official opening (clip, clip with the scissor) while the web camera projects on the screen. And finally you will get drinks and popcorn from the microwave while you can move freely...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - January 31, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: art and biomed art and science displays/exhibits public engagement Studiolab university museums Source Type: blogs
Experiences with teaching Public Health Science Communication
On my list of things to do writing a blog post about my experiences with teaching Public Health Science Communication to graduate students at the University of Copenhagen has been high-up for a while. However, moving to Bonn, Germany and other minor things have somehow managed to overrule the writing of this post. But its time – also to avoid the experiences being stored too far back in my mind to be brought forward.
So how did it go? Did the students find it useful? What went well? Would I repeat a course like this again? And if so, what would I do differently? There are lots of questions to answer, so I thought I&#...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - January 24, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication graduate course master of public health sciences public health education public health students research research communication science communication @en syllabus teaching University of Copenhagen Source Type: blogs
How are we doing on social media?
Today I had the pleasure of being invited to a talk at The National Museum by Jonathan Wichmann from Maersk Line. I got the invitation from Ida Gustav and Linea Hansen, so kudos to them
Maersk Line have had immense success on social media and reaching levels of fans/likes/engagement that the rest of us can only dream of. For example, they have more than 700,000 fans on Facebook. During the talk which lasted around an hour, another 500 people clicked like on their page. And their business is shipping containers around the would on ships. Okay. I’m amazed.
Anyway, one thing that really surprised me was that Maersk L...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - January 22, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Daniel Noesgaard Tags: Facebook public engagement social web media Source Type: blogs
Objects that were demonstrated, touched, fingered, fondled, caressed and stroken at the tactile aesthetics seminar yesterday
Here are some of the objects that were demonstrated (touched, fingered, fondled, caressed, stroken etc.) during the touching seminar yesterday.
Here are bundles of hair from an often-caressed cat:
And here is a toy:
At least two participants brought coffee/tea mugs, and two of us chose to bring small objects that they like to play with to distract their thoughts, a chestnut and some paper clips:
A cool computer mouse, of course:
And so on and so forth:
And I, finally, brought my office chessboard, to illustrate the question whether chess is a purely cognitive...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - January 18, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: aesthetics haptics Source Type: blogs
