Research Retold
-
mHabitat Lunch and Learn – Making Research Digestible
Read more: mHabitat Lunch and Learn – Making Research DigestibleIn this blog, we share our experience of attending and presenting at the mHabitat Lunch and Learn event in Leeds. The event took place on Tuesday, the 11th of June at Co>Space North, Leeds. Making an impact through speaking engagements and workshops One of our main intentions for 2019 was to speak at more events and deliver workshops. Just halfway through 2019, I think that we have done well on that intention by being involved in numerous speaking engagements. One of the things that I love about public speaking is the ability to connect to an audience, sharing what…
-
Tableau User Group Yorkshire – Presenting Data Effectively
Read more: Tableau User Group Yorkshire – Presenting Data EffectivelyIn this blog, we share our experience of attending and presenting at the Tableau User Group Yorkshire event in Leeds. The event took place on Tuesday, the 4th of June at Horizon Leeds. Now on its third instalment, this Tableau User Group Yorkshire event (#TUGY on Twitter) brought together Tableau enthusiasts and newbies from across Yorkshire. Organised by Jet2, the events are typically casual and friendly, with informative talks from various speakers and networking opportunities over pizza and beer. Founder and director of Research Retold, Mihaela Gruia, was among the lineup of speakers for the Tableau User Group Yorkshire event. Her talk,…
-
Tips for communicating research to stakeholders
Read more: Tips for communicating research to stakeholdersIn this blog post, we share insights from two researchers and one impact consultant on communicating research to stakeholders This is a follow-up post from our blog on communication tips for academic researchers sourced from five published authors in The Conversation. What do we mean by stakeholder? We’ll pay homage to our academic inclinations and offer a definition of what stakeholder is: ‘A stakeholder represents any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the organization’s purpose and objectives’ (Freeman,1984). This definition is used more in a business context. For the purposes of this…
-
Interactive workshop on communicating research
Read more: Interactive workshop on communicating researchThis week I delivered an interactive workshop on communicating research impact at the University of Sheffield. We collaborated with Eunice Lawton, Researcher Development Manager (Engineering) at Think Ahead, a development programme for early-career academics. The aim of the workshop was to offer an easy framework for creating a 2-page visual summary to showcase their expertise to non-academics. In this post, I share how we structured the interactive workshop on communicating research and a few lessons I took away from the day as a facilitator. 1. The structure of our interactive workshop on communicating research The workshop was split into four…
-
Presenting research to a non-academic audience
Read more: Presenting research to a non-academic audienceIn this blog, we share six tips on presenting research to a non-academic audience. Our insights are based on reviewing the top 12 presentations on Slideshare about this topic. This blog post is written from the perspective of a non-academic audience member, with a background in Integrated Marketing Communications, Events Management and Public Relations. Sourcing presentation tips from Slideshare In presenting research to a non-academic audience, there certainly is no one-size-fits-all approach. One of the many challenges that academics and researchers may encounter within their research journey is communicating their findings in a way that guarantees nothing gets lost…
-
Leeds Digital Festival event on fake news and disinformation
Read more: Leeds Digital Festival event on fake news and disinformationOn May 1st we hosted a Leeds Digital Festival interactive event on fake news and disinformation in partnership with Dotkumo. In this blog, we share the ideas that we presented and some of the key points shared during the discussion. Let’s begin! Our first event at the Leeds Digital Festival As we said before, this event was part of the Leeds Digital Festival programme, which takes place once a year in Leeds. The events organised during the festival focus on technology, data and social media, with workshops and networking. Our event was hosted by Mihaela Gruia, the founder of Research Retold, and Rich…
-
Insights from the Festival of Ideas
Read more: Insights from the Festival of IdeasIn this blog, we share our insights from the Festival of Ideas in Leeds. The event took place on Monday the 8th of April and was organised by the University of Leeds. The Festival of Ideas is an annual event that brings together academia and industry for a day of talks and discussion. Academics from the Leeds University Business School (LUBS) share their expertise and spotlight the potential opportunities to collaborate. This year was particularly exciting as the Festival was delivered in partnership with Nexus Leeds. Nexus is a recently opened business centre that bridges the gap between business and…
-
5 things I learned during my first radio interview
Read more: 5 things I learned during my first radio interviewWhenever anyone asks me to share my journey about starting Research Retold I’m usually very open. Yet, when Jamie asked me to do this during the Business Live radio show I knew it would be a completely new experience. In many ways, the radio interview felt like a conversation over coffee. In other ways, knowing that 5000 people were listening made me *palm-sweating* type of nervous. In this post I share the experience of having my first radio interview, how it happened and 5 things I learned from it. But before I share that, let me turn back time a…
-
Communication tips for academic researchers
Read more: Communication tips for academic researchersIn this blog post, we share 5 communication tips for academic researchers. We sourced these tips from 5 researchers who have published articles in The Conversation. These are 5 of the 20 researchers we reached out to a month ago to ask for insights. Communicating research can be an exciting process. It can increase the visibility of new findings, prevent the risk of misinterpretation by the media and lead to meaningful engagement with non-academics, for instance. Above all, it puts researchers in control of the narrative. A month ago we reached out to 20 researchers who had published articles in…