Engagement, influence, and impact

Public Speaking, Networking and Engaging your audience

This session explores the importance of "Getting Out There" throughout the research process, starting with the central question: Can we truly collaborate in research if we do not network? It examines how effective networking, and public speaking can enhance the visibility of researchers, institutions, and research outputs. The session will consider effective strategies to engage different audiences by communicating research in clear, compelling, and relevant ways. The session concludes by encouraging you to evaluate how your research can impact your field through strategic dissemination, including publications, presentations, and digital platforms, highlighting the significance of research impact beyond just the thesis or report.

Session Outcomes:
1. Recognise the value of networking and public speaking
2. Develop strategies to engage diverse audiences
3. Evaluate and plan effective dissemination approaches

In this online session, we will explore how to design and present engaging and effective research posters. You’ll learn key principles of layout, visual design, and storytelling to help your poster stand out at academic events. The session will also focus on developing competent conference presentation skills, including how to communicate complex information and concepts clearly to a non-specialist audience.

Do join us — this session is suitable for everyone, regardless of prior experience with research posters.

Session Outcomes:
1. Apply design principles 
2. Present complex research concepts 
3. Demonstrate confident communication skills

Research that engages with the public can be insightful, inspiring and have substantial long-term impact. But how do we design public engagement research and conduct that research effectively and ethically?  This session will introduce and explore the key considerations for researchers when engaging with the public, including the required ethical measures and effective engagement techniques.

Session outcomes:
1. Identify core principles of public engagement research.
2. Implement ethical practices in public engagement.
3. Use impactful techniques to engage the public effectively.

This session will help you develop a critical understanding of the peer review process and guide you through the essential steps of publishing your research. You will learn how to write effectively for peer-reviewed journals, improve your manuscript’s chances of acceptance, and confidently address reviewer feedback. Whether you’re new to publishing or looking to refine your approach, this session offers valuable insights into successful academic publishing.

Session Outcomes:
1. Understand the peer review process stages.
2. Write effectively for peer-reviewed journals.
3. Handle reviewer feedback confidently.

Collaborative Writing and Publishing is an important part of research collaboration with both internal and external partners.  It is a key step to disseminate the findings from your hard-worked project and share them with a broader learning society, which is seen as a pleasant and proud harvesting moment by many people.  

However, we do need to face a lot of issues around it in the reality --- who can be included in the authorship and how to determine the order of it? How each author best contributes to the drafting of research paper? Who are the corresponding authors and what their roles mean? Is there more indication for the application of IP (also counted as scientific publication)?  

This training session will hopefully answer most of these questions and provide you with a clear picture around collaborative writing and joint publishing.

Session Outcomes:
1. Understand key roles and responsibilities in collaborative writing and publishing.
2. Navigate the authorship criteria with confidence.
3. Understand best practices for contributing to and managing joint research publications.

This session will guide researchers in developing a clear and effective research impact plan. We will explore how to initiate your impact planning journey, identify necessary tools, define your impact objectives and how to demonstrate these throughout your impact throughout the project Journey. Attendees will learn how to recognise potential beneficiaries, define meaningful impact goals map your sphere of influence, and outline pathways for achieving and evaluating that impact. Whether you are at the beginning of a project or further along in your research, this session offers practical guidance for integrating impact into your work.

Session Outcomes:
1. Define key elements of an impact plan.
2. Identify tools for planning and tracking impact.
3. Outline ways to evidence research impact.