43. Interview with science educator Dr Jarrod McKenna

Episode 3 of the Let's Talk SciComm podcast, hosted by Unimelb SciComm, titled "43. Interview with science educator Dr Jarrod McKenna" was published on February 20, 2023 and runs 29 minutes.

February 20, 2023 ·29m · Let's Talk SciComm

Summary

This week we had a lot of fun chatting with, and learning from, Dr Jarrod McKenna. Jarrod is a reproductive biologist turned zookeeper turned science educator and has had quite a mixture of jobs. As a PhD student at Monash University, he investigated early pregnancy and assisted reproduction in the world’s only known menstruating rodent: The Egyptian Spiny Mouse. He then went on to work as a zookeeper at Zoos Victoria and as the Communications Officer at the National Youth Science Forum. These days he works as an Outreach Program Coordinator in the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne, working to engage early high school students in STEM. But science communication has always been at the heart of his work – whether he knew it or not – which led him down an incredibly rewarding track celebrating science and encouraging others to see how amazing and fun science can be. You can follow Jarrod and learn more about his work here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jarrod-mckenna-942382128/https://twitter.com/its_drmachttps://thesimplescience.com/https://theconversation.com/meet-the-egyptian-spiny-mouse-this-menstruating-rodent-may-help-us-understand-human-pregnancy-157889 Transcript: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/b46s

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