How did Anatomy Nights impact public audiences’ knowledge of brain anatomy?
Quiz scores were 21.8 percentage points higher immediately after the events.
Anatomy Nights combines a public brain-anatomy talk with an animal-brain dissection.
Individual participantPublished generalized mean
Keyboard: I emphasizes participants; M or Escape emphasizes means.
About the study
Researchers compared paired eight-question quiz scores from 91 participants at four venues in the UK and US (October 2018–October 2019). Longer-term retention was not measured.
Adapted from Figure 1 of Sanders et al. (2022). Horizontal offsets separate overlapping points.
Some snippets of what practitioners are telling us across key dimensions. Where appropriate, excerpts are lightly edited for grammar and punctuation. This new tool is in beta.
“And we also provide maps that show you where you may experience bright flashing lights or experience loud stimuli. So you can plan your museum experience accordingly. We also try to incorporate these tenets of science within reach, even in exhibit design as well.”
Solution
“We are a predominantly graduate-student-run group focused on talking about science policy and science diplomacy issues and bringing that to the larger graduate student and postdoc body here at Hopkins.”
Insight
“I urge all of us, as scientists, to read beyond our natural or physical science fields, to engage with our social science colleagues, to engage with our colleagues in other scientific fields, the humanities, so that we can better understand what it is that we’re dealing with.”
Programs from the Civic Science Media Lab (CSML) Audio Studio feature in-depth interviews with diverse experts who share actionable insights from their work on topical issues in civic science from multiple perspectives. The audio format provides guests with an additional way to share new insights, creating a synergistic effect with other programs on the network, on video and digital print.
CTN #24 – Kacie talks to Heather Adams about franchising as a path into civic science entrepreneurship
byCivic Science Media Lab
In this episode, host Kacie speaks with Heather Adams, owner of Snapology of Atlanta East, the show's first civic science entrepreneur to build through a franchise. Heather shares how a career in early childhood education and years as a preschool franchisee led her to buy into a STEM enrichment brand, and what it takes to make an established model succeed in your own community. They discuss choosing a franchise that fits your values, why she prioritized program quality over short-term profit in year one, the challenge of knowing when to delegate during rapid growth, and how a mobile business model helps her reach kids across Atlanta who haven't yet discovered STEM is for them.
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