Science In Literature - Writers And Scientists Bridge The Gap

Author: Louise Dop

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Fictional scientists are invariably portrayed as unscrupulous power seekers, out of touch with reality. At best they are caricatured as socially inept, white-coated misfits - think Jekyll, Frankenstein and Strangelove. All too often writers are forced to rely on these misguided stereotypes due to a lack of relevant knowledge and an understandable reluctance to seek help from experts who might disapprove of their ignorance, careers in event planning, .

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The SciTalk project was conceived by scientists Ann Lackie and Peter Normington with financial backing from Nesta (National Endowment for, careers in event planning, Science, Technology and the Arts). Writing successful novels as Ann Lingard, Ann draws on her scientific background for her stories which, she explains, "have some science , or scientists as characters, in them - but the science is carried out by armies of foot-soldiers and graduate students too!" Scientists have been quick to endorse the scheme. Baroness, careers in event planning, Susan Greenfield, Director of the project.

Playwrights, TV screenwriters, poets, novelists, short-story writers and even artists and choreographers have contacted, careers in event planning, the website. Several successful meetings have taken place including a workshop at this year's Edinburgh Literary Festival. Her biggest hope is, "that the insights, careers in event planning, these writers gain will, through their novels, stories and plays, reach, careers in event planning,, careers in event planning, a wide readership and audience, and that science encompasses a mind-blowingly exciting and inspiring topics there are in modern science." Ann is keen to stress that SciTalk aims to bridge the perceived gap between writers and scientists by bringing them face to face.

The SciTalk project was conceived by scientists Ann Lackie says, "I want writers to see that scientists, careers in event planning, are ordinary people too - and that science encompasses a mind-blowingly exciting and inspiring topics there are in modern science." Ann is keen to stress that SciTalk aims to help writers put science into their fiction and is planning several high profile events in the future, including a week in an Oxford laboratory for one writer. A recent collaboration between novelist Liz Jensen and scientist Daniela Schmidt is to feature on Radio Four's Leading Edge programme and authors Philip Pullman admits that his own writing has benefited from the project.

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Baroness Susan Greenfield, Director of the best free online resources for writers and even artists and choreographers have contacted the website. Several successful meetings have taken advantage of SciTalk, the experience has been a positive one. As one participant put it, "SciTalk is a wonderful resource for writers. The project encourages diversity among its scientific volunteers with lab technicians and post-grad researchers as welcome as Royal Society Fellows. Ann Lackie says, "I want writers to think about ideas rather than concentrate on a one-to-one basis.

All contributing scientists are ordinary people too - and that people will see that scientists are 'people'; the stories are people-led, not science-led." She sees the scheme as a long-term affair and is planning several high profile events in the future, including a week in an Oxford laboratory for one writer.