• Training Room

    WWC: Writing for posters, Media and Public Engagement
    Provider   Researcher Development Programme

    Participants will gain the knowledge and skills to adapt and present their research work by engaging in a series of fun and thoughtful exercises to present different styles of writing to their peers in the room.

Duration 1 full day

Course Type Workshop

Booking Status Waiting List

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Target Audience: PGR Students

Communicating effectively and persuasively to present and market your research to as wide a readership and as varied an audience as possible. This interactive workshop will help you get your written messages across all media to wider audiences with a dash of personality, clarity and targeted knowledge.

  • Developed the creative confidence to write dynamic and effective writ- ten communications both online and offline to a variety of target audience.

  • Learned about the importance of storytelling and story structure to make research meaningful to a variety of different audiences.

  • Developed short and clear sentence and paragraph design to make research storytelling come alive.

  • Discovered how to build on their personal creative and communicative strengths.

  • Learned how to deal with writers block and negative emotions which hold us back from our natural styles of communication. Participants need to bring their laptops to the workshop.


Delivered By: Iain Davidson

Prerequisites

Cancellation Policy

If you are unable to attend a course please cancel your place as soon as possible, with at least 3 working days notice via the online booking system

PG Certificate in Researcher Professional Development

All postgraduate research students are eligible to access the Researcher Development Programme workshops. This workshop can contribute towards the PG Certificate in Researcher Professional Development (PG Cert RPD).

You can find credit and class information in the Researcher Development Programme Handbook and in NEPTUNE (Engineering, HaSS) or SPIDER (Science).

Please check with your department or Supervisor to confirm if you are enrolled on the PG Cert RPD and how many credits you are expected to achieve if you are unsure.