Workshops in:
- Media skills
- Science communication
- Presentation skills
For over 20 years, I’ve been communicating science in print, on radio and in talks. I must have read several thousand press releases, and watched scientists give presentations, and I’ve seen the good, the bad . . . and the downright unintelligible!
Drawing on that experience I’ve developed workshops and training programmes in basic media and communication skills that have proved very popular and successful with scientists, researchers and post-graduate students. I’m also a trainer with the new EU’s ESCoNet project, delivering media skills and communication training to researchers across the EU.
Communication is essential to science and research — whether communicating with one’s peers or colleagues in other disciplines, or to funding agencies and venture capitalists, or to schools and the public at large.
Good communication is a skill, and like all skills it can be learned. It’s also a valuable and useful skill, worth working at, as it can be applied not just in research, but for all kinds of purposes.
Clients in the past have included university researchers and post-docs, medical charities, research dissemination teams, and State agencies.
The intensive half-day introduction to media skills — focusing on writing a press release, and contacting media — has proved especially popular over the years.
If you need help with media skills, or would like some communication skills training, I’d be more than happy to work with you and develop a training programme or workshop for you. The workshops can be tailored to the individual or group, and to specific needs. You can contact me using the comment form below.
