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    The Centre for Science Communication

    is the world’s second-largest postgraduate facility for science communication. Established in 2008 as New Zealand’s first tertiary-based centre devoted to communicating science, we offer the following qualifications:

    Applications

    Due Date


    The second round of applications for the 2012 intake into the MSciComm and PGDipNHFC programmes close 20 January.

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      Filmmaking

      Learn how to take factual filmmaking to new heights. Taught in association with NHNZ – the world’s second-largest producer of documentaries – the course is taught by award-winning filmmakers who are some of the best in the business. Films produced by our students have won many awards, including the industry's most prestigious.

      Writing

      Discover how to communicate science most effectively with the written word. Co-ordinated by an award-winning author, this programme will mentor you through the process of writing a book. You will also learn about the process of digital publishing and how to create multimedia publications for the likes of Apple’s iPad.

      Popularizing Science

      From the internet to installations, with this course you will learn how to communicate science in the online digital realm or in the physical world of museums and the like. Websites, podcasts, posters, presentations, and exhibitions (big and small): learn how they can all be made to make science engaging, entertaining and educational.

      Featured Student

      Click image to have Alex tell you about her book
      The banner, featuring Alex's artwork, used to celebrate Alex's book To the Island at the Centre's premiere of student works. Click to reveal.
      Alex Sides is doing an MSciComm in Science and Creative Nonfiction Writing. During her time at the Centre she has won two major outside awards. Her painting inspired by student life at the university was selected to illustrate the cover of the 2010 Otago Telephone Directory and subsequently was awarded a $10,000 prize as the best such illustration in New Zealand. She also won the $2,300 second prize in the 2010 Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition from a field of 2,500 entries.

      Alex's art and writing have been put to good effect in the book she is writing for her MSciComm called To the Island. It is the diary and sketches of a fictionalized early explorer to the Subantarctic Islands, which Alex uses to depict the ecology of the islands.

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