{"id":24297,"date":"2013-09-10T09:12:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=24297"},"modified":"2013-09-10T10:15:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T15:15:39","slug":"new-experts-guide-for-media-helps-researchers-raise-their-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/09\/new-experts-guide-for-media-helps-researchers-raise-their-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"New faculty experts guide for media helps researchers raise their profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When one thinks of research activities, being cited in newspapers and magazines or on websites, radio and television does not immediately come to mind.<\/p>\n

But interactions with news media – being quoted in news or feature reports, writing commentaries or having research projects profiled in the press – have increasingly become part of researchers’ roles and responsibilities, say researchers and university officials.<\/p>\n

“The general public is very often interested in knowing about what we do,” says Community Health Sciences professor Anthony Bogaert, who has been featured in a wide array of national and international media<\/a> primarily for his pioneering work on asexuality.<\/p>\n

This is in large part because society – like the students in the classroom – has a thirst for knowledge, while a key activity of a researcher’s job is to disseminate knowledge, says Vice-President Research Gary Libben.<\/p>\n

Media appearances are “in no way different from that core mandate to share knowledge,” says Libben. “It’s in a different venue perhaps with different people, but that’s all the better.<\/p>\n

“A democratic society is an informed society. It’s a society that has chosen to think.”<\/p>\n

To encourage researchers’ involvement with the media, and make it easier for media to connect with researchers, Brock’s Office of Communications & Public Affairs<\/a> is working with the Office of Research Services<\/a> and Faculties to create a fresh new BrockU Experts Guide for Media<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

This web-based resource will be posted on various University websites and shared with local, national and international news media organizations.<\/p>\n

To become part of this media initiative, faculty members can fill in the yellow-coloured submission forms that were mailed out in August. The deadline for submissions for the 2012-13 Guide is Tuesday, Sept. 17.<\/p>\n

If anyone has questions, or wants to send submissions in electronically, please contact Jeffrey Sinibaldi (x4687; jsinibaldi@brocku.ca) or Cathy Majtenyi, media relations specialist, Research Services (x5789; cmajtenyi@brocku.ca).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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