Student SciComm fellowship
As part of the British Council Going Global Partnership Grant, Science Media Centre of IISER Pune is working closely with UWE Bristol, Nature India and SJAI to co-develop a cutting-edge science communication course. During this course development year, we are also supporting four projects involving 8 student fellows. The fellowship is semester long (Aug 2023 to Nov 2023). During these four months, each project will be mentored by a science journalist from SJAI network and scientists from IISER Pune.
Meet the fellows and mentors
All fellows are students pursuing BSMS at IISER Pune. These fellowships will be supervised by Dr Shalini Sharma (Head- SMC, IISER Pune) and Sahana Ghosh (Associate Editor, Nature India).
Project 1
Aditya Shukla
Virtual Museum Designer
Yashraj Kumar Singh
Artist: Sculpture of bust
Aditya developed interactive webpages for the G N Ramachandran digital museum with high-quality animations/illustrations and game engine elements. Yashraj contributed an artwork to this project.
They've been mentored by Rafeeque Mavoor
(Science Communication with animations and illustrations).
Project 3
They were mentored by Ipsa Jain
(With a PhD in Biological sciences, Ipsa's expertise lies in science communication and illustrations).
Vidisha Hate
Subject Familiarity & Research
Harsh Rathod
Illustrator & Video-maker
Vidisha and Harsh have worked on a short film or vodcast on human-animal conflict in IISER campus.
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effective commiunication for conflict mitigation
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immersive experiences for science history
Project 2
They have been mentored by Karthik Chandramouli
(Multimedia journalist and digital content editor at Mongabay-India).
Devika Kizhakoot
Research, illustrations, Content
Omkar Golatkar
Research, website design, Content, Animation
Devika and Omkar have developed video-based training material on digital illustrations or Making videos (with 2D and 3D illustrations) based on the latest research from IISER Pune (preferably from Physics and Chemistry).
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multimedia storytelling to simplify the scientific process
Project 4
They are being mentored by Virat Markandeya (Vice President- SJAI, journalism focusing on science, technology and ecosystems)
Ritvee and Prarabdh are working to develop a multimedia project -- a vodcast incorporating high quality illustrations on Zebrafish.
Ritvee Talele
Scripting, Illustrations, Interviewing
Prarabdh Shivhare
Scripting and Screenplay, Editing, Interviewing
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mixed media communication for Zebrafish Research in India
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