This event is a part of the Engage Memorial Learning Series that runs from February to June 2015. Information and program updates can be found on our website.
How do you present your work so it is understandable but does not lose complexity? Which public is your public? Come to this session hosted by Dr. Max Liboiron to learn communication techniques and best practices for taking to the public about your research.
Dr. Max Liboiron is a scholar and activist. Her academic work focuses on how invisible, harmful, emerging phenomena such as “slow” disasters and toxicants from plastics become apparent in science and activism, and how these methods of representation relate to action. Currently, she is working to create a citizen science network for monitoring ocean plastics in Newfoundland using DIY feminist technologies.
Liboiron is a co-founding member of the Superstorm Research Lab, a mutual aid research collective that works on disasters, co-manages the Disater Collaboratory for academic and non-academic partnerships following disasters, and runs the Discard Studies Blog, an interdisciplinary online hub for research on waste and wasting.
Prior to her position at Memorial, Liboiron was a Postdoctoral Fellow with both the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern University and with Intel’s Science and Technology Center for Social Computing. She holds a Ph.D. in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University.