How can you design high quality events and interactive activities that work for everyone? In this video Sarah talks through how you can use the five senses to help you think through activities that work for people with additional needs - but also help enhance your activity for anyone's enjoyment. This can be useful for creating hands on activities for kids and adults, and well as longer workshops.
Understand how to produce your own podcast to inspire, entertain and disseminate your work at the University of Warwick. By the end you’ll have all the skills, tools and information you need to get started… and keep going!
Feeling inspired? Email to borrow our DIY podcasting kits.
Zines are a type of DIY magazine. They're great for producing a quirky and fun pamphlet about your work. You can then leave these in cafes/ libraries etc. to spread awareness of your topic. You can also use them as part of events/ stalls your running. This guide will teach you how to make and use simple zines to engage the public.
Animation is a fantastic medium for conveying information and sharing stories about research - the only limit is your imagination. This guide takes you through the key steps common to most animation productions when working with creative professionals.
If you're creating a poster to communicate your topic to a public audience - potentially for an event or part of an exhibition, this guide is for you. An academic style of poster you may be used to creating normally isn't suitable for this type of event, so this guide will help you understand how to structure and word a poster that you want the public to read.
How can Storytelling make people care about your research? What tips, tricks and techniques for powerful storytelling can you apply to your engagement practice - no matter what type of interaction you're planning.
Power Point presentations are a useful tool for communicating complicated ideas to your audiences. But how do you avoid overwhelming your audience and the dreaded "death by Power Point" - Duncan has the answers!
Create an elevator pitch about your work to help develop your ability to portray your offer (your skills, services or experience) in a convincing and succinct manner. A good pitch should be around 20-30 seconds which tells your audience exactly what they need to know to see if they want to take it further.
This is a short, self-paced course hosted on Moodle that introduces you to key topics around effective communication of scientific research with a variety of audiences, in particular with patients and members of the public. The course focuses on five key themes:
Importance of understanding your audience
Introduction to community with empathy
Effective science communication strategies
Different platforms for communication
Importance of research communication with patients and members of the public
