The Power of Communication in Science: Lessons from the MSCL

Sometimes, learning doesn’t happen in a lab or on a field trip it happens in a classroom, when someone manages to connect science to real life. That’s exactly what happened during our session with Bernhard Goodwin, executive director of the Munich Science Communication Lab (MSCL). I’ll admit, before that day I had never heard of Read More

BR- Bayerischer Rundfunk: Discovering the World Behind the Microphone

Our field trip to Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) turned out to be one of those days that start as “just another school visit” but end up changing how you see things. I didn’t expect to enjoy a radio station visit that much . By the end of the day, I found myself genuinely impressed by how Read More

Public Broadcasting in Germany: Visiting Bayerischer Rundfunk

Hi again readers! Let me tell you all about the interesting experience I had at our first field trip within the course of Professional Communication. We got the opportunity to visit one of Germany’s biggest public media broadcast institutions in person: Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR). Personally I was looking forward to this experience a lot, and Read More

Insights from meeting with Munich Science Communication Lab

Hello everyone! I’m back with another post, this time I will tell you about our session learning about the Munich Science Communication Lab! This time we got to meet Bernhard Goodwin, executive director and board member of the Munich Science Communication Lab (MSCL), and it was an inspiring experience. MSCL is a non-profit research and Read More

Field Trip 2: Munich Science Communication Lab – Understanding how Science meets Society

Hey everyone! I’m back again with another post from my Professional Communication course at LMU. This time, our “field trip” was a bit different: we didn’t actually go anywhere. Instead, the speaker came to us… We met Bernhard Goodwin, who introduced us to the Munich Science Communication Lab (MSCL). It was founded in 2021 at Read More

The Important Field of Science Communication

I was excited to hear from the Science Communication Lab because science communication is such a topical subject in the current climate of the world. Many scientific topics have become heavily politicised, and it is now harder than ever to get clear and concise scientific journalism. I was intrigued to hear how they have been Read More

Bayerischer Rundfunk: A balance between state funding and creative liberty

I unfortunately was unable to attend the first field trip because of scheduling conflicts but I was interesting to hear everyone else experience on the field trip. The media system is different from Ireland which is understandable due to the size differences of the countries and our history. Ireland has two public service broadcasters, RTE Read More

I discovered what “Planetary Health” means (thanks MSCL)

Hello people!Today I want to tell you everything I’ve learned about planetary health…Yeah, I know… it probably does not ring a bell, but don’t worry! I also had no idea what it was all about until our meeting with the Munich Science Communication Lab (MSCL)!Therefore, here I am to sum up all the key info Read More

Bayerischer Rundfunk Munich, The Broadcaster For People

Visiting Bayerischer Rundfunk Munich (BR) was such an amazing and insightful experience for me. As an exchange student from Bangkok, I felt like it was truly a great opportunity to explore an independent media organization in a totally different continent like BR, to see how they operate, get to know their long and meaningful history, Read More

Exploring Munich Science Communication Lab, Communication Sci For Society

My visit to the Munich Science Communication Lab (MSCL) somehow changed my perspective and gave me a new point of view of how science can be communicated to the public, not only just for the academic world. Although we didn’t have an actual tour of the MSCL’s working space, we still got to know that Read More

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