SciComm
Science Communication
Health and Science Communication
What does it mean to be a science communicator in today's media landscape? How do online media shape the way in which health information is shared, portrayed, and understood?
New digital spaces such as blogs, aggregators, and social media platforms are rapidly transforming the world's media landscape—as well as the way in which we share, consume, and engage with scholarly work. Sharing Health Research is a multi-year, SSHRC-funded project that examines these ongoing transformations in the online media landscape, with a focus on how they contribute to the wider communication and uptake of health research.
Through a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, the project examines how, where, and among whom health information circulates online, in the form of research publications, preprints, news stories, social media posts, and more. Expanding on our previous research on digital science communication, it seeks provide insights into the sharing of reliable health information and to support academics, journalists, and other science communicators in effectively engaging online audiences.
Find out more
- Learn more about one of our newest projects, Doctors Who Vlog
- Check out the media coverage of our latest findings
- Dive into findings from our recent SSHRC-funded research exploring the Canadian science communication landscape