PUBLIC OUTREACH

Beyond theIvory Towersof Academia

Let them knowwhat you think

Jose Luis Vivero

What is myscience for?

Why do I need tocommunicate ?

Why and what to communicate?

• Why do we do science?

• The more they know, the better?

• Transdisciplinary is about leaving the tower

• Publishing in high-ranked journals is not theend of the story

• The best story-teller is yourself

• Web-based technologies are useful

• It requires time and vocabulary

Non-academic audience

• Short pieces

• Straightforward language

• No mild scientifically-cautious statements

• Links to further reading

• Examples of everyday life, practicalities

• Catchy titles: we compete with billions of news

BIOGOV TwitterAccount

• Why do we post?

• What do weexpect to gain?

• How, when & what to post?

• Targetted tweets

• TOOLS: Hotsuit, Tweetdeck

Standard affiliation for all Biomot members

• Example SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2277123

• Universite catholique de Louvain, Center for Philosophy of Law

• http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2255447

• Universite catholique de Louvain, Centre de Philosphie du Droit

Options to improve your outreach• SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2255447

• Academia: https://uclouvain.academia.edu/JoseLuisVivero?notification_code=dneAVMRs

• Slideshare (12 uploads): http://fr.slideshare.net/joseluisviveropol/food-as-a-commons-reframing-the-narrative-of-the-food-system

• Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com/

• Twitter (source of information & academic distribution). You need tofollow key people/institutions and to elaborate a list of relevant accounts

• Facebook: restricted to friends

• Issuu or Scribd: http://issuu.com/joseluisvivero/docs

• Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQCwgvtrM68

• Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/jose-luis-vivero

• Blogs: Wordpress or Blogger

TOTAL: 66,500 views

Food as a commons

A BIOGOV Working paper Series?

Self-governed peer-reviewed Protocol?

• Inter-disciplinarity & research convergence• Voluntary but with deadlines