Communicating Research

Communications practices for university-led research

Young people involved in a co-production community media project

Participatory media production as a tool for research

The collaborative process of making media has a number of useful outcomes in the field of research. Taking the media production process away from the external professional maker, sidestepping the established media conventions, and utilising the digital and networked society allows the research community to explore issues, exchange and investigate ideas, form societies and networks…

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BSE and the public’s role in public information on research

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy may not be the first landmark in research comms that springs to mind. Yet it was the Mad Cow disease – or more particularly the way the public got to learn about it and ‘understand’ the government’s beliefs about it – that led first to a revised view of how science is communicated…

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Advice on Academic Profiles

Surprisingly, given the common sense of most business practice, universities are often less than excellent in communicating their greatest asset. What most people want from university is to engage with staff, staff who will help make an experience for us, who will transfer to us their interests, wisdom, contacts, scope, skills, enthusiasm and brilliance. We…

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Participatory media production as a tool for research

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BSE and the public’s role in public information on research

Advice on Academic Profiles