Thursday, May 12, 2016

Going Live on Digital Media – Twitter Chat with Melanie Coulson

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Find stories you tell within open access data.

Contaminated industrial sites in cities across Canada have polluted land and water, stalled new developments, and created abandoned lots in urban areas. Until recently, it was tough for Canadian researchers and journalists to understand the national scope of the problem. But open access to government data has changed all that. CBC Investigative... More

Friday, May 29, 2015

Content is king: Digital and Social Media Communications Workshop

Traditionally, communications officers would issue a lot of press releases to the media and make a few calls, hoping a journalist would take hold of the idea and write a compelling story about it. Today, Melanie Coulson argues, communications officers can bypass traditional media and tell those stories themselves on their owned and social... More

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Experiencing Africa: Professional Institute Geared Towards Serious Researcher/Traveler

As he read the media reports on the recent Ebola outbreak in Africa, Carleton African Studies Professor Nduka Otiono was frustrated by the misleading impressions in them. “It sounded like the whole continent was being ravaged by Ebola. They were describing Africa as a homogenous country, not a continent,” said Otiono, who had been... More

Thursday, May 7, 2015

FPA Professional Institute: Policy Advocacy and Social Change

As a long-time activist in the Canadian labour movement, Teresa Healy knows how hard activists work—and how rare it is that they have a moment to stop and reflect. That need motivated her to create the upcoming workshop, “Policy Advocacy and Social Change”, which will run from May 28–30 as part of the FPA... More

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Timothy Caulfield Speaks on Pseudoscience: FPA Professional Institute

Lately, Timothy Caulfield has been making a name for himself as the academic who challenged Gwyneth Paltrow in his book, Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash. But as an expert in health law and policy at the University of Alberta, Caulfield’s investigations of pseudoscience extend much further than... More

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