Next lunch talk:
Care-centered Science Communication
With Bethan Burnside (Curo Agency, VIB)
Wednesday, April 15, 12:00–13:00 (Zoom)
In this talk, Bethan Burnside (Curo Agency, VIB) explores what it means to practise care‑centred science communication — an approach they ground in principles and protocols stemming from the disability justice movement, and in the belief that public trust in science grows through connection rather than correction.
Drawing on their work at the intersection of neuroscience, curation, and lived experience advocacy, Bethan argues that science communicators play an important relational role: tending to access, context, and the infrastructures that allow different communities to participate with research on their own terms.
The talk invites audiences to rethink science communication not as persuasion, but as the slow, attentive work of building trust, belonging, and shared agency.