Endocrine Abstracts

Why do so many people believe what clearly are, at least to us in academia, ‘alterative facts’? Ignorance and stupidity are answers that slip easily of the lips. If they only understood the science…why don’t they look at the evidence? However, it is easy to forget that while we are all experts in our own little patch of intellectual or technical real-estate, we all have ‘faith’ and believe in a multitude of things that we understand little about ...

Jane Dreaper is a long-standing BBC health correspondent, reporting on medical research and the NHS for radio, TV and the BBC News website. In this session, she’ll talk about how health journalists work - and what she needs for her audiences when she interviews scientists or asks them for information and background....

During this session I will discuss some ways of approaching requests for interviews by the media. The media can be main stream media such a television or radio, social media such as Twitter or web based journals. It can be daunting to consider having your views for all to see or hear, however there are many reasons to engage with the media. I will discuss some strategies on how to react to requests for information and offer some suggestions on how to approach interviews and me...