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Active Listening is a concept borrowed from counseling and conflict resolution; it makes for better interviews and better interviewers. Students entering the workplace can effectively use Active Listening in many aspects of their work from science writing, podcast, and radio hosting to simply being better colleagues. It can also be a useful skill in research and evaluation.
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There are many videos on YouTube and websites about Active Listening, for example, this video gives some nice tips. Accessed 27th Jan 2021.
A variety of books are available on Active Listening, including Active Listening: Improve your Ability to Listen and Lead. Accessed 27th Jan 2021.
Podcasts are an excellent source to use when considering Active Listening. Ask the students to listen to podcast interviews and to practice listening as if they were the interviewer. Pause it occasionally and write down the questions they would ask next. Continue playing and consider how the interviewer did it differently. Were they listening and hearing something different? Were they apparently not listening and simply sticking to a script of questions?
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Science Communication Unit. (https://www.uwe.ac.uk/research/centres-and-groups/scu). Accessed 12 Dec, 2022.
Science Chatters. (https://www.uwe.ac.uk/research/centres-and-groups/scu/science-chatters). Accessed 12 Dec 2022.
Science Matters. (https://issuu.com/scimatters). Accessed 12 Dec, 2022.
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Glester, A., Wilkinson, C. (2023). Active Listening: Learning Through Interviewing. In: Rowland, S., Kuchel, L. (eds) Teaching Science Students to Communicate: A Practical Guide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91628-2_57
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