Blogposts
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3 reasons why interns boost your business
Read more: 3 reasons why interns boost your businessIn this post, I talk about 3 reasons why interns boost your business. I will also introduce you to our two new marketing interns who will be with us for the next 3 months. — Running a business as a solo founder can be really tough. I manage a network of 13 associates across the UK, as well as our day-to-day operations and business activity. As any business founder will know, marketing activities and promoting what one does to the outer world can often fall at the bottom of the list. One year ago today, I was sitting in my…
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Communicating research to policymakers for action – Workshop
Read more: Communicating research to policymakers for action – WorkshopIn this post, I share three key success factors for researchers to engage with policymakers. I also offer three lessons from delivering a workshop to high-level members of the National Institute of Policy Studies in Nigeria. This workshop on communicating research to policymakers for action took place at the University of Sheffield. Communicating research to policymakers for action: three success factors I’ve been working in the research communication space in the UK for nearly five years. I knew I wanted to pursue a career in this field when I conducted my final year dissertation. My topic was disseminating evidence…
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The juggling act of a PhD student
Read more: The juggling act of a PhD studentHello and we hope you’re all having a nice summer! We took a vacation break and are now back in the office with renewed energy and fresh ideas. To get us out of the summer blues and to kick off the blog posts again, we sat down with Gemma Bridge, PhD student in Public Health Communication at Leeds Beckett University, to discuss the juggling act of PhD life. Our conversation at Fika North in Leeds came off the back of a presentation Gemma did which we found insightful and worth sharing with our community. We’ve previously written about maintaining a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Reducing loneliness with an app and a map: Careview
Read more: Reducing loneliness with an app and a map: CareviewIf you work in health and social care, engage with older residents or newly arrived migrants, this blog post is for you. “Loneliness is on its way to becoming Britain’s most lethal condition” reported Joe Smith in The Independent last April. He highlights Julianne Holt-Lunstad’s research which states that loneliness significantly increases the risk of premature death. 1 in 20 people always or often feels lonely (ONS, 2018). Therefore, the negative effects of social isolation and loneliness cut across many aspects of life. First of all, social isolation can be as damaging to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day (Holt-Lunstad, 2015).…