Sharon Willoughby

Botanic Gardens Interpreter, Environmental Historian, Ecologist, Storyteller, Vegetable Gardener and Beekeeper.

[Sharon Willoughby @swilloster]

@RoryStewartUK Great - will there be signed copies available?

[Sharon Willoughby @swilloster]

@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret Relatively recent move to UK from Australia. What books would you recommend as primers to UK political system and understanding party politics in UK?

[Sharon Willoughby @swilloster]

Walking through Twickenham this month supporting #HH100MileMarch for @SHResidents @habsandheritage

[Sharon Willoughby @swilloster]

@VicGovernor @UniMelb University of Melbourne Alumni with Governor, Australia House London.

[Sharon Willoughby @swilloster]

Fortuitous Alignment: The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Sustainable Development Goals https://t.co/4qnYUOHyXP #mdpisustainability via @Sus_MDPI
@sandroantonello #COP26

[Sharon Willoughby @swilloster]

A double rainbow at Kew..#Kewmagic

[Esther @_emKamm]

Collecting by 19th century: J.Hooker's diaries say that indigenous names: "native names have been retained only with great unwillingness" Yep, that checks out for the 19th c. #BotanyTradeEmpire

[Sharon Willoughby @swilloster]

Interesting bee questions.

[Sharon Willoughby @swilloster]

https://t.co/BV0npUlDlj

[Sharon Willoughby @swilloster]

@RWSmolensJr @kmftimm As a practitioner - I think collaboration training would be very valuable for scientists.

[Sharon Willoughby @swilloster]

Finally the importance of the arts in Sci Comm. Let's think about true interdisciplinary. #SacklerSciComm

[Sharon Willoughby @swilloster]

@joesbigidea I work in sci com at a botanic garden - not finding audience to have already self selected for science.

[Sharon Willoughby @swilloster]

@EngageClimate There is a plug board on the left hand side of main pathway through theatre,

[Sharon Willoughby @swilloster]

Training in effect collaboration as important as communication. #SacklerSciComm

[Sharon Willoughby @swilloster]

Truly multidisciplinary work needs to start at the beginning of a project not just an add on for funding.

[Sharon Willoughby @swilloster]

Do we need to pull in other specialist from the humanities to make this work truly multidisciplinary? What about the storytellers - historians, writers etc #SacklerSciComm

[Ben Shouse @thebenshouse]

Is anyone else at #SacklerSciComm hungry for a practitioner's perspective? Academics are great (and many are good practitioners), but...

[WVU CE-STEM @wvustem]

Want to enhance your #scicomm knowledge? Join @theNASciences #SacklerSciComm Nov 16-17 https://t.co/yTHoaNqxLf