Best Practices For Science CommunicationAn Early Career Researcher Perspective

Fiona Tummon, Jo-Ting Huang-Lachmann, Vera Schemann

Builds support for science + encourages informed

decision-making

Why?Science Communication

Fosters collaboration + innovation

How?

YOUNGEARTH SYSTEMSCIENTISTS

Consider how people receive information

Engaging with with social scientists can help with understanding your audience and how their

personal beliefs or values affect how they interpret information

Make your message accessibleTailor-made messages for different media channels,

including social media, can help engage wider audiences, particularly those not traditionally reached

Empower your audience to be part of the discussion from the beginning

Encouraging an honest, bi-directional dialogue can benefit all – producing more user-oriented science and more informed

decision making

Assess the effectiveness of your communication

Working with science communication experts can help improve skills and techniques

ECR

AreFutureResearchLeaders

UsedtoWorking

Interdisciplinarily

AwareofSociety-ScienceLinkages

Why? Involve Early Career Researchers

ProvideOriginalIdeas+Views

UseNovelTools+

Technology

AreKeentoEngage+Contribute

Recommendations + Benefits

ECRs have the energy, passion, and skills to actively contribute and steer CLIMATE

RESEARCH in a truly interdisciplinary direction!

Facilitate opportunities for ECRs to contribute to research and

communication activitiesScience communication

should be an integral part of any scientific education

Early Career Networks can bring new perspectives and help recruit

the next generation of leaders

- Facilitate opportunities for ECRs to contribute to research and communication activities- Science communication should be an integral

part of any scientific education- Early Career Networks can bring new

perspectives and help recruit the next generation of leaders