The British High Commission and KNUST’s Responsible AI Lab have skilled Ghanaian journalists to enhance science reporting and assist translate complicated research into clear tales that the public can perceive.
The British High Commission in Accra, in collaboration with the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Lab (RAIL) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has organised a specialised coaching programme for journalists and content material creators to assist enhance the communication of research findings to the public.
The initiative goals to deal with a long-standing problem in academia the place many scientific discoveries and research findings fail to attain extraordinary residents in a transparent and comprehensible kind.
The coaching kinds a part of the UK–Ghana Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I) Media Capacity Programme, which seeks to strengthen science communication and enhance the method research is reported in the media.
The workshop introduced collectively about 25 journalists and content material creators from numerous media organisations throughout Ghana.
The four-day workshop, held from March 10 to March 13, 2026, was organised by the British High Commission along with RAIL-KNUST and supported by Ghana’s Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovations.
The programme is designed to equip journalists with the abilities wanted to translate complicated scientific and technological ideas into correct, participating and accessible tales for the common public.
Participants obtained coaching in areas resembling research interpretation, multimedia storytelling, ethics in science reporting, interview strategies and efficient communication of scientific ideas.
The initiative recognises the media as a key stakeholder in guaranteeing that research findings transfer past educational journals and attain communities that may profit from them.
Johnson Masagotin Singir, Science and Innovation Officer at the British High Commission in Accra, stated the programme kinds a part of a five-year UK–Ghana Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy masking 2023 to 2028.
He defined that the technique emphasises stronger collaboration between researchers and the media to guarantee scientific improvements are correctly communicated and understood by the public.
Researchers say many scientific breakthroughs fail to make actual influence as a result of the findings usually are not communicated successfully to the individuals who want them most.
The programme is meant to strengthen Ghana’s knowledge-driven financial system by guaranteeing that research findings in areas resembling agriculture, local weather change, well being and know-how attain farmers, companies and communities.
The Responsible AI Lab at KNUST is a multidisciplinary research centre targeted on making use of synthetic intelligence to help improvement objectives in sectors together with agriculture, healthcare, power and training.
By bettering science communication via the media, the organisers imagine extra Ghanaians might be ready to perceive and apply research improvements in their day by day lives.
According to GBC, the programme has already skilled greater than 70 journalists throughout Ghana because it started, with organisers anticipating the initiative to additional strengthen science and know-how reporting in the nation.