Communicating the Impact of your Research

Event Description

 

Date

28 January 2020

Time

14:30 - 17:00

 

Content:

This workshop will help you develop a strategy for communicating your research. It will look at the classic academic forms of communication – publishing articles/books and presenting at conferences and how to use these effectively. The workshop will also look at how to communicate the impact of your research to a non-academic audience. This will include the traditional media, new media and community engagement activities. At the end of the workshop you will draw up your own communication strategy.

The topics covered will include:

1. Traditional academic outputs
   - papers
   - books
2. Being a productive writer
   - tips and strategies for effective writing
3. Conferences
   - making good use of conferences
   - presenting with confidence
4. Non-academic communication
   - the range of options
   - newspapers, radio, TV
   - professional journals
   - new media, blogs, twitter, ResearchGate
   - community engagement activities
5. Your communication strategy.

 

Booking Information

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Queen's Online

Course Contact Details

Name: Organisational Development
Telephone: 5381
Email: stafflearning@qub.ac.uk

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New Course: No
Course Type(s): Research and Enterprise Skills
Staff Categories: Research
Keywords: Research, Writing, Impact, Communication, Strategy, Publishing, Presenting, media