Insights from the Festival of Ideas

In 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…

A review of our first quarter in 2019

In this post I share a review of our first quarter in 2019, in terms of our content, community, team, events and client projects. This post comes as a reflection on the five intentions for 2019 that I published in January….

Our fake news and disinformation event in Leeds

Creating events is one of the business resolutions I set out for 2019. I knew that when the right opportunity would come along I’d be excited to bring it to life. In this blog, I share our journey of collaboration…

5 things I learned during my first radio interview

Whenever 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…

The journey of hiring our first employee

Hiring our first employee was something I thought about since day one of Research Retold. After 1 year and five months, it happened. In this post, Isabel shares her experience of becoming our first employee. The journey to hiring our…

Meet our new marketing interns!

Happy International Women’s day! I hope you are having a wonderful spring day.  To celebrate both women and being international, we want to introduce you to our new marketing interns. Leyla and Carmen are joining us for three months to…

Communication tips for academic researchers

In 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…

Reducing loneliness with an app and a map: Careview

If you work in health and social care, engage with older residents or newly arrived migrants, this blog post is for you.

NEF Live 2019 – A story about my entrepreneurial journey

Another week, another exciting event to share with you. We spent this week in London attending NEF Live 2019, organised by the New Entrepreneurs Foundation, and meeting with several people involved in research communication. In this blog post, I share some insights…

Communicating research to wider audiences: three insights from practice