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Outreach
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Non-peer reviewed publications
2023
Article published in The Conversation regarding ChatGPT and medical advice. https://theconversation.com/chatbots-for-medical-advice-three-ways-to-avoid-misleading-information-213266
Feature Article for Physiology News – Is daylight worth saving or is time to change? The health controversies around daylight saving time. https://www.physoc.org/magazine-articles/is-daylight-worth-saving-or-is-it-time-to-change/
2022
Article published in The Conversation regarding chrononutrition at Christmas time. https://theconversation.com/festive-bulge-scientists-offer-advice-on-how-to-beat-overeating-195822
Book Review – The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the gendered brain. https://www.physoc.org/magazine-articles/book-review-8/
2021
Feature Article for Physiology News – Avoiding the Traveller’s Blues: The Physiology of Jet Lag. https://www.physoc.org/magazine-articles/avoiding-the-travellers-blues/
2020
Book Review – The Matter of Facts: Skepticism, Persuasion, and Evidence in Science. https://www.physoc.org/magazine-articles/book-review-the-matter-of-facts-skepticism-persuasion-and-evidence-in-science/
2018
A blog about time with Nobel Laureates and excellent young researchers on the island of Lindau in South Germany. https://www.lindau-nobel.org/blog-educated-inspired-connected/
An article about time with Nobel Laureates and excellent young researchers on the island of Lindau in South Germany and recognition for Occupational Medicine. https://www.asu-arbeitsmedizin.com/wissenschaft/arbeitsmedizin-umweltmedizin-und-praeventionsforschung-bei-der-68
Guest editor for a themed edition of Physiology News on chronobiology and sleep. https://www.physoc.org/magazine-articles/a-year-of-chronobiological-discourse-in-science-and-society/
Book Chapters
2023
Book: Cologne Compendium “Occupational Medicine”
[Kölner Kompendium „Arbeitsmedizin“]
(The book, written for medical students studying occupational medicine, is published in German. The chapter titles are provided here in both English and German.)
- Chapter: How does work keep us healthy? – by Thomas Erren & Philip Lewis [Wie hält Arbeit gesund?]
- Chapter: Scientific Competence – by Thomas Erren & Philip Lewis [Wissenschaftliche Kompetenzen]
Book: Cologne Compendium “Environmental Medicine”
[Kölner Kompendium „Umweltmedizin“]
(The book, written for medical students studying evironmental medicine, is published in German. The chapter titles are provided here in both English and German.)
- Chapter: Visible Light: On the Natural Experiment of Time Changes and Health Controversies [Sichtbares Licht: Zum natürlichen Experiment von Zeitumstel-lungen und Gesundheitskontroversen] – by Thomas Erren & Philip Lewis
Symposia / Talk Organisation
2021
Chair for Talk on “Healthy Cities” by Prof Premila Webster OBE (Oxford)
as part of the Student’s for Global Health group at the University of Cambridge.
2011
Young Life Scientists Ireland, ~200 participants
I co-led a committee of PhD students from various Irish & UK universities in organising an interdiscipinary life sciences conference for young researchers (organisation, grant writing, keynote speakers, delegate liaison, reviewer, sessions chair).
Additional Outreach
- Seminar on Sleep and Rhythms for the Cologne Children’s Univsersity (2024)
- Tour of social care housing institution and discussion with employees about how and what research may be of benefit (2023)
- Tours through the authentic “Barbarastollen” mine gallery with discussions on occupational and environmental medicine.
- Campus Talks Television Presentation – includes background to current proposed project: https://www.br.de/mediathek/video/dr-philip-lewis-einfluss-von-licht-bei-der-geburt-av:5baa9784c9d2a60018633c02
- Journalist Correspondence (New Scientist, Elemental, Der Spiegel)
- School Visit (Comprehensive School in Bonn)