Fresh Science is looking for the best under-publicised research produced in the past year or so by early-career scientists. The physical sciences have been under represented in recent years so they’re keen to get good applications from physics and related fields.
This year Fresh Science will be held in June in Melbourne. The event serves as a communications boot camp for early career researchers – getting their stories out to local, national and international media, and giving them essential communication skills.
Fresh Science selects 16 early-career researchers and flies them to Melbourne where they will receive media training and then present their work to the media, schools and the public.
Now in its 11th year, Fresh Science is supported by the Federal and Victorian governments, NewScientist and Museum Victoria.
In essence they’re looking for:
- early career researchers with an upper limit of five years post-doc and no lower limit
- with a peer-reviewed result which has had no media coverage
- with some ability to present their ideas in plain English.
Nominations close 1 May 2008.
Want more information? Visit their website www.freshscience.org
