Many of these resources are adapted from a series of public engagement workshops that covered: framing your message to be accessible, including for your government representatives; how effective engagement (and public policy) is founded on social connection; the diversity of ways scientists engage; as well as broader context for public engagement in academia and the science of science communication. These resources are curated by and courtesy of Dr. Tessa Solomon-Lane, Dr. Alexa Warwick, Dr. Travis Hagey, and Dr. Hans Hofmann on behalf of the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action. Huge thanks to Dr. Tessa Solomon-Lane for sharing these resources with our community.

The tools and trainings for science communication are abundant. These days, there is also funding to train scientists in communication and opportunities for fellowships. Below are just a few resources - choose what works best for you and your style of communication. If you have additional resources to share, please get in touch!

Science communication toolkits, training, and resources

• AAAS: Science Communication Toolkit

• AAAS Center for Public Engagement with Science & Technology

• Frame Works Institute: Introduction to Strategic Frame Analysis eWorkshop

• Many Experts, Many Audiences: Public Engagement with Science and Informal Science Education

• ASBMB: The art of science communication

• National Alliance for Broader Impacts

• Portal to the Public

• Science communication: A practical guide

• COMPASS Science Communication

• Alda Center for Communicating Science

• National Center for Science Education

Funding

• Union of Concerned Scientists: Science for the Public Good Fund

• Society for the Study of Evolution: Small Grants Program for Local and Regional Outreach Promoting the

  Understanding of Evolutionary Biology

• European Society for Evolutionary Biology: Outreach Initiative

• NIH Science Education Partnership Award Program

• NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning

Books

• Am I Making Myself Clear? by Cornelia Dean

• Escape from the Ivory Tower: A guide to making your science matter by Nancy Baron

• Don’t Be Such a Scientist by Randy Olson

• The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols

• Unscientific America by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum

• Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

• Don’t Think of an Elephant! by George Lakoff

• Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

• If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? by Alan Alda
  

Research on the science of science communication and public engagement

• Peer-reviewed articles curated by Roxanne Bogucka, STEM Librarian at UT Austin