Description
Please note this is 1 of 2 workshops. We highly encourage you to sign up for and attend both sessions.
Join author of The New Academic and long-time training facilitator in engagement and communication for academics and researchers who want to share their amazing work with the outside world, Simon Clews, in two workshops designed to give you the skills and techniques to make this happen.
Session 1: The Engaged Researcher – on page
In this session we’ll look at the background behind becoming an engaged researcher and what communication and awareness raising for academics might look like; then we’ll put this into practice and examine what a typical engagement trajectory/career path might look like. We’ll bring this to a conclusion by homing in on effective written communication techniques and taking a close look at the writing and editing techniques needed to communicate complex research to a non-specialist audience.
More About Simon Clews
About Simon Clews Now an Honorary (Senior Fellow) with the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne in Australia, Simon Clews was the inaugural Director of the Melbourne Engagement Lab at Melbourne University. Here he trained, encouraged and motivated some of Australia’s brightest minds to make their work accessible to non-academic audiences. Prior to setting up the Melbourne Engagement Lab, Simon took the fledgling Melbourne Writers’ Festival and over fourteen years placed it firmly on the world stage. Simon also works with writers and academics around the world to help them improve their writing and communication skills and develop their careers as providers of creative, well-written non-fiction for a commercial market. As well as teaching in numerous universities around Australia, he is a regular trainer/professional development provider in Canada, Singapore, the UK, Thailand and Hong Kong.
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This event is not open to the public.