This interactive Mesh learning webinar held in September 2020 explored the possibilities for community engagement with health research when we cannot meet in person. Find the recording here
This blog piece from Parenting Science Gang in the UK gives their top tips on using Facebook for citizen science and engagement.
The NCPPE in collaboration with UK university scientists have created a guide on how to use social media effectively for public engagement.
Research Paper: Gadflies biting science communication: engagement, tricksters and ambivalence online
by Mesh Editorial TeamThis research paper from H, Riesch of Brunel University provokes those interested in the use of online spaces for large-scale engagement with science to think beyond the idealised notion and expectation of orderly deliberative spaces for ‘rational’ debate but to embrace fruitful disruption of such spaces as potentially productive in disrupting power and stimulating a genuine engagement.
Published Literature: Vaccination communication strategies: What have we learned, and lost, in 200 years?
by Mesh Editorial TeamPublished Literature: Future Connect: a review of social networking today, tomorrow and beyond, and the challenge or HIV Communicators
by Pete Cranston and Tim Davies et al.An extensive introduction to the growing and changing role of social media in communication with an emphasis on developing country experience.