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So at the beginning of this year (1998), CV in hand, I knocked on a few promising doors looking for a job-or at least some experience. Doing this I found employers quite fascinated by the qualification I held. What is this course? What did you do? Who lectured you? I was quite happy to invoke their thoughts of my boundless experience from such a strange, mythical year.
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Bryant, C. (2001). The Anatomy of a Science Circus. In: Stocklmayer, S.M., Gore, M.M., Bryant, C. (eds) Science Communication in Theory and Practice. Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0620-0_16
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