Chaired by Professors Mehita Iqani (SU) and Anna Feigenbaum (BU), this online roundtable series invites speakers working in innovative ways at the interface of science, communication, and society to engage in discussion about the relations between data, methodology and the exercise of scientific authority. It explores how scientific research has been harnessed into policy, official communication, popular culture, and public discourse. It also considers the inverse: How communications practices and structures work to produce scientific evidence.

Our speakers for our second roundtable are:

• Melanie Klinkner: Professor of International Law, Bouremouth University
• Leslie Swartz: Professor of Psychology, Stellenbosch University
• Sthabile Kolwa: Lecturer of Astrophysics, University of Johannesburg
• Pawas Bisht: Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture, and Communication, Keele University

This series is hosted by the South African Research Chair in Science Communications (Stellenbosch University) and the Centre for Science, Health and Data Communication Research (Bournemouth University).

Attendance and registration is free.