How We Know

Science Communication Fellowship

How do you make the act of finding travel?

Scientific findings travel remarkably well. What is harder to carry with them is the act that produced the finding: the observation, uncertainty, experiment, comparison, and reasoning through which something became science.

The Fellowship

A historical orrery demonstration, with figures gathered around an illuminated mechanical model of the solar system.
A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, Joseph Wright of Derby, 1766.

The Fellowship develops ways to communicate that process without losing the evidence and uncertainty that made the science worth understanding.

Fellows create scientific videos and host Burstcast conversations with researchers.

This is not about repackaging scientific findings. It is about building a new craft for making the act of finding travel.

Applicants may come from across medicine and the life sciences.

Applications are now open for the November 2026 cohort.

Application deadline 4 October 2026
Cohort begins 2 November 2026
Cohort size 5 fellows
Core programme 3 months
Full fellowship Up to 6 months

Approximately 6 hours/week during the first three months, including a 2-hour weekly cohort session and a monthly one-to-one conversation.

The three-month core is followed by up to three months to complete and publish the work.

Apply

Applications consist of two questions. Respond in writing or by video. Keep your full response to no more than 200 words or 2 minutes.

Tell us about a scientific idea you used to see one way, but see differently now. What changed your view?

Choose one scientific claim that interests you. What would someone have to observe, compare, or rule out before you would want them to believe it?

Two questions · maximum 200 words or 2 minutes · no CV required.

Participation fee: none. Stipend: none. Published work is credited to its contributors.