Fellow’s Profile
Anthony Lewis
Fellow’s Profile
Anthony Lewis
Using social media to communicate science: creating a practical toolkit
Fellowship
Themes
Focus
Teaching science directly through social media with an evolving online toolkit of guidelines
Countries
Fellowship year
2017
Supported by
Locality
London
Biography
I am a science communicator and multi-media producer. I split my time between freelance work – producing graphics, videos, and digital strategy for science and educational organisations – and my role as Senior Multimedia Manager at The Lancet, developing the journal's video, graphical, and audio communications programme.
My Fellowship was about how small organisations use social media to communicate science. It's all too common for the most junior person in a research, charity, or museum communications team to be given the keys to the social media accounts and asked to develop content, communicate science, develop marketing strategies and more, all on the most public of testing grounds. My Fellowship aimed to gather best practice to help these organisations and individuals use social media in the best possible way, and harness its capacity for great communication of science (as well as the marketing, fundraising, etc).
The result was the online guide Communicating Science with Social Media, which has been used by many organisations, presented through university lectures, and more (https://medium.com/communicating-science-with-social-media).
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Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.