RELATE

RELATE helps scientists develop lay-audience communication skills & facilitates public engagement through community events.

RELATE is a communications training and community engagement program designed to improve the dialogue between researchers and different public audiences. Our program is built on the belief that science communication should be a conversation, and not scientists lecturing audiences about their work. Our goal is to support researchers in engaging in this conversation. Public dialog on scientific ideas benefits both the public and the institution of science. However, researchers must be able to communicate their work and its implications in a way that is accessible and meaningful to a broad audience. Researchers have a variety of motivations for engaging with different public audiences such as informing policy, medical and ethical decisions, and enhancing science education. Likewise, scientific research is improved by incorporating diverse perspectives and experiences from the public. RELATE aims to bridge these communities through a unique program structure which pairs communications training with practice. As a part of RELATE, graduate students and early career researchers hone their communication skills in an intensive workshop with instruction and feedback from communications experts. To complete their training, these researchers put their newly refined skills into action by communicating research practice, progress, and issues with a broad audience in a series of community engagement events. By helping graduate students and early career researchers develop stronger communication skills and actively facilitating a dialogue between researchers and different public communities, RELATE seeks to create an environment for positive and significant public engagement on scientific issues.

10/28/2020

It's time for another video! Listen to Yolanda Zhang discuss a new way that doctors can monitor whether patients are taking their prescriptions regularly

PrEP is a type of preventive medicine that stops the propagation of HIV virus and prevents infection for highly-risked people. However, after being prescribe...

10/14/2020

Even more headed your way! Check out this week's video by 2020 Summer Workshop Alum Kenny Trieu about how skin tumors grow and why his work answering that question may lead to new cancer treatment strategies

At some point, we’ve all encountered a close relative or family member that may have developed skin cancer in their lifetime. I’m Kenny Trieu, a Ph.D. candid...

10/13/2020

SciComm videos from our 2020 Summer Workshop graduates are arriving each week on the RELATE YouTube channel! Check out this video from last week by Maddie Barron on the connection between intestinal inflammation and C. diff bacterial infection

Infection with Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) can lead to severe diarrhea and, in the worst cases, even death. One of the largest risk factors for develo...

01/30/2020

Hey scicommers! Check out RELATEr Fernanda Alvarado-Leiton's video about how people respond to surveys.

In this video, learn how your personal characteristics such as cultural background, gender, education, age, and more affect the way in which you interpret an...

12/01/2019

Hey scicommers! Check out RELATEr Ian Nessler's video on a new type of cancer therapy.

Cancer is an all too common disease. Over the last couple hundred years, we have striven to create a cure for cancer, and although there has been some succes...

11/17/2019

Hey scicommers! Check out RELATEr Aline Martins de Carvalho's video about eating sustainably.

This video presents the concept of sustainable diets and discusses how to have one, especially in the Brazilian context. Sustainable diet is a diet that prot...

11/03/2019

Hey scicommers! Check out RELATEr Alyse Krausz's video about her device that helps doctors diagnose brain injuries.

Concussions and other types of traumatic brain injuries are difficult for doctors to diagnose because of the tests available. Doctors can ask a patient quest...

10/20/2019

Hey scicommers! Check out RELATEr Jeff Olney's video on how our brain's wiring influences our emotional reactions.

What determines which emotion we respond with in a given situation? What makes us respond to an ordinary situation in an emotional way? Here we’ll learn how ...

05/13/2019

How else would we celebrate mother's day than with ? Happy Mother's Day from the RELATE team

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