{"id":2,"date":"2014-07-17T22:34:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T22:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetryofscience.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-07-31T21:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T21:28:05","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #555555\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Sam-Exp-Words.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-929 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/08\/Sam-Exp-Words-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for visiting\u00a0<em>The Poetry of Science.<\/em> My name is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samillingworth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam Illingworth<\/a>, and I am a Professor of Creative Pedagogies at Edinburgh Napier University in the UK. My research involves using poetry to develop dialogue between scientists and non-scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Every week I find a new piece of scientific research, read the journal article that describes it and then write a poem that\u00a0tries to summarise the research in an accessible and entertaining manner.\u00a0Some of the poems may be faintly melancholic, some of\u00a0them may raise a\u00a0smile, and hopefully all of them will make you think.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in the relationship between science and poetry, then you might also enjoy my book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk\/9781526127983\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>A sonnet to science<\/em><\/a>, which presents an account of six groundbreaking scientists who also wrote poetry, and the effect that this had on their lives and research. You might also <a href=\"https:\/\/f1000research.com\/articles\/5-91\/v3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enjoy this study<\/a>, which proves that poetry can be used to convey important scientific information, even if the aesthetics of the medium aren&#8217;t to everyone&#8217;s tastes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #555555\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for visiting\u00a0The Poetry of Science. My name is Sam Illingworth, and I am a Professor of Creative Pedagogies at Edinburgh Napier University in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-2","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>About - The Poetry of Science<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/about\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thank you for visiting\u00a0The Poetry of Science. 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