The SciCom Colloquium, started by Dr Francois van Schalkwyk (CREST), is an ongoing seminar series in which new research in the field is presented. Upcoming seminars will be advertised here and on our social media. You can browse the list of already presented papers below. If you are interested in presenting your work, please contact us. If you would like to receive updates about our next colloquium and other SciCom events, sign up to our mailing list.
Humour as a Tactic for Strategic Science Communication.
My 20+Year Career Journey Running the Cape Town Science Centre.
Representations and Remediations: new modes of thinking and doing forensic identification.
Vertical Indian Ocean: Postcolonial Cultural Studies, Climate Change and Deep Sea Science
The Creaturely Life of the Interdisciplinary: Comments on process and praxis
Framing COVID-19 in the South African news media: An analysis of 22 months of reporting.
Trust in science during the COVID-19 pandemic: A segmentation of online users in South Africa.
Exploring media representations of COVID-19 through the lens of editorial cartoonists in South Africa.
The relationship between science and religious communication during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cancer in the news: An investigation into pseudoscience in cancer reporting via South African online news media.
Quality of the science communication during the COVID-19 pandemic.