Ifat Zimmerman
Ifat is a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Education in Science & Technology at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Her Ph.D. research, under the supervision of Professor Tali Tal and Professor Ayelet Baram-Tsabari, focuses on the role of science news websites as mediators between science and the public in communicating scientific content.
She obtained her M.Sc in Science Education from the Technion, the Faculty of Education in Science & Technology. Her thesis research topic under the supervision of Dr. Luli Stern: “Using a Novel Protocol for the Development of Assessment Tasks that Diagnose Understanding of Biological Evolution”.
She has a BSc. in Nutrition and a teaching certificate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment.
Ifat’s paper Science Communication Objectives and Practices of Science News Websites presented at the Mark Biano ‘Metaksherim’ (Communicating) Graduate Student Conference in Communication was selected by the judges first of all submissions (2021, December).
Presentations:
Zimmerman, I., Ginosar, A. & Tal, T. (2021, April). Science News Websites: Making Science Accessible for All. Paper presented at the 94th NARST Online Annual International Conference.
Zimmerman, I., Tal, T. & Baram-Tsabari, A. (2021, December 5). Science Communication Objectives and Practices of Science News Websites. Paper presented at the 18th Mark Biano ‘Metaksherim’ (Communicating) Graduate Student Conference in Communication. Haifa University, Israel.
Zimmerman, I., Tal, T. & Baram-Tsabari, A. (2021, December 12). Science Communication Objectives and Practices of Science News Websites. Poster presented at the Research Day of the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology of the Technion, Israel.