New Report: An Auto-Ethnography on Public Scholarship

What does it actually take to effectively communicate research to a public audience? We just released our first auto-ethnographic research report aiming to answer this question!

Yifei(Rena) Zhu, a PhD candidate in robotics at the Colorado School of Mines spent eight months directing and producing 30 short-form videos on robotics topics that included everything from robots in restaraunts to robotic cuteness. Drawing from research papers and popular press, Rena's Youtube videos amassed over 10,000 views.

This meta report draws on that experience to document what she learned: about earning audience attention, making technical content approachable without flattening it, and what sustained public outreach can offer a researcher's own thinking.

This report was written through the eyes of Rena as a public scholar aimed at other researchers navigating these questions themselves.

Read the report on our new Research Reports Tab here: https://alltomorrows.org/research-reports