Have you ever dreamt of trying your hand at journalism?
Do you want to express your opinion on a hot scientific topic?
Would you like to have a go at writing about science?
… then do, and get published in
!
The Science in Society Review (or as we like to call it, SiSR) is a termly science magazine published by The Triple Helix Society at the University of Cambridge. 2,000 copies of each issue are distributed around the University of Cambridge's colleges and departments. We publish articles authored by undergraduate students at the University and students at other Triple Helix chapters around the world, such as Harvard or UCSD. You have the opportunity to have a piece of your writing published in both the print and on-line versions of the magazine.
All you have to do is write a short (up to 800 words) piece on one of the following topics:
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It can be absolutely anything, but be careful – inventions and discoveries are not the same!
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Think Psychology (changing consumer behaviour?), Biology (new ways of making fuel?), Physics (new ways of extracting energy?), Engineering (mirrors in space!) and others…
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As with the other questions, lots of space for imagination – you can think of anything from the discovery that bacteria cause illness to the multiple uses of plastic.
See next page for instructions.

Deadlines and Rules:
Deadline:
Prize:
The deadline for submission is the 15 th of February;
Three winning articles will be published in the Easter edition of our journal. Print copies will be mailed to your school for free, and the online edition of the journal will be there for the world to see, available for download to anyone anywhere!
Submission: Article must be entered into the Article Submission Form (below) and emailed to president@camtriplehelix.com
Restrictions? There are no restrictions on the number of submissions per school, age of the author or the colour of their eyes, as long as the article submitted is up to a certain standard of scientific rigour (see below!)
Referencing: This is boring but necessary: All factual claims must be referenced below the text. Briefly, whenever you make a statement that is not a thought generated by yourself, the source of the statement must be acknowledged (however, statements considered to be general knowledge - e.g. ‘the structure of DNA is double-helical’ – do not require referencing).
You should do this by placing a square-bracketed number after the statement, along with placing information about the source in a corresponding numbered reference list at the end of the article. This should include the author(s), title of the publication/article and the source (including the URL, if available). It is best to use the original source.
As an example to illustrate good practice in scientific writing take the excerpt below from a SiSR piece in the works at the moment on the subject of behavioural change campaigns:
The UK public can be broken down into 7 generalised groups according to their attitude to climate change: active environmentalists (18%), people who either deny climate change or want to live their life in their own way with no consideration for it (18%), and the most important group, which shares a
willingness to act if empowered and informed (64%)[ 4 ]. The latter are the main targets for nationwide behaviour change campaigns, and it could be argued that the future of our environmental policies is dependent on our ability to encourage them to perform and support environmentally-conscious behaviours.
[ 4 ] DEFRA, A Framework for Pro-Environmental Behaviours, Jan 2008, p43-45 – see copy at http://archive.defra.gov.uk/evidence/social/behaviour/documents/behaviours-jan08-report.pdf
We hope to receive lots of submissions! If you have any questions, email us at president@camtriplehelix.com
See next page for submission form; that is the part you need to save in a separate Word document and email to us.

ARTICLE TITLE:
AUTHOR INFORMATION:
Full Name:
E-mail Address:
Age:
School (name and address):
PERSONAL BLURB:
A few curt phrases to introduce yourself. It doesn’t need to contain exactly the same information as in the example provided.
Example:
Cindy Smith is a sixth-former keen on becoming an engineer. She loves banana bread and listening to music so loud it makes the neighbours complain. She decided to write on this topic because she feels passionately for climate change and wants to make the case that geoengineering is the best way of solving it.
Your Personal Statement:
ENTER ARTICLE TEXT HERE
(don’t forget the reference list at the end if you need one, and take up as much space or as many pages as you like, as long as you stay within the 800 word limit, excluding references.)