Case Studies / Imaging Science
Imaging Science
Designing a media course to give scientists new tools for knowledge exchange.
Taskscape conceived, designed, and helped introduce the ‘Imaging Science’ course for Wageningen University Graduate Schools, an introductory course in digital media production providing early-career scientists with new tools for communicating research.
Brief
Wageningen University is a leading international research university in the Netherlands, specialising in life sciences and natural resources. Its Graduate Schools wanted to provide selected early-career scientists with an accredited internal course to improve academic communication and media skills, while simultaneously facilitating knowledge exchange and generating promotional content for individual departments and the University. Taskscape was contracted to design the course and deliver its first iterations.
Activity
- Developed the course outline, modules and assessment framework for accreditation
- Delivered training and initial runs of the course with staff and selected post-grads
- Built internal leadership capacity to enable continuation by university staff
Outcomes
- Created media-literate leaders among early-career researchers who took on the course’s continuation for several years
- Informed later development of public programmes in Science Journalism and Media Training at Wageningen, representing a pioneering internal precursor
- Shaped Taskscape’s ongoing support for communicating science, which has continued through talks and workshops at international institutions, including Saxion University, Sant’Anna Pisa, TUD Dresden, and conferences such as ESP Europe and THE Global Sustainable Development.
