We are pleased to announce a half-day online CPD workshop on ‘Making your research stand out from the crowd using video, animation, infographics and podcasts’ from 1 pm to 4 pm on Thursday 9th March 2023.

Book Now: https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1695737&group=201314

Overview

Opportunities to communicate research to specialist and wide audiences have never been better. Inexpensive and effective technologies alongside social media and blogging platforms means impactful scholarly communications do not have to take much time and effort if used properly. Platforms for communicating research such as Twitter, YouTube, traditional media and blogs, give academics and their project teams greater visibility than ever before.

Infographics, data visualisation, podcasts and animation provide quick and simple ways to disseminate research and ideas if you find your voice, audience and the time. Many of these tools are free and can work in tandem to create a visual identity for any academic regardless of their field of work. In addition, researchers will be empowered to reach diverse new audiences that are not just academic peers, but publishers, editors, fund holders and the public.

The focus of the course is to deliver an overview of the many tools you can use to help you communicate research and work smarter. The objective is to help attendees go back to their workplace with a digital toolset and skills they can utilise to help communicate and share their work.

Attendees will learn the basics of social media and digital communication tools in an academic and professional setting and the course leader will demystify some of the barriers that may have put attendees off from using these tools in a professional setting.

Who should attend?

This course will be of interest to wide group of professionals and academics that includes researchers, masters and PhD students, research support staff and managers, library and information professionals, communications and marketing professionals.

Topics covered include:

- Getting visual - tools to help you turn a piece of research into a video presentation, screencast or animation

- Creating research communication podcasts

- Creating infographics and eye-catching posters.

Social media is a great way to communicate your research but are you making the most of it? Videos, animations, infographics and podcasts can help your research catch the attention of wide audiences and help showcase it in ways that traditional forms of research dissemination activities cannot. There is good evidence that shows you can increase the impact of your research by creating eye-catching materials. This may put many academics and professionals off if they feel they do not have the creative and technical skills to do this. This workshop will demystify many of the issues that may have put you off making your first digital communication materials. We will explore a set of affordable and free online tools you can use to enhance your research communications. The session will include live demos as well as provide you with several hacks and shortcuts which means creating your first video or podcast need not be laborious or cost the Earth. Attendees of this workshop will go away inspired and equipped to take their research communications to the next level.

Course leader - Andy Tattersall is an information professional with 20 years’ experience within academia and a background in journalism. He writes, teaches and gives talks about digital academia, technology, scholarly communications, open research, web and information science, apps, altmetrics and social media. Andy received a Senate Award from The University of Sheffield’ for his pioneering work on Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) in 2013 and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Andy was named in Jisc’s Top 10 Social Media Superstars. He was a member of the CILIP Multimedia and Information Technology Committee (MmIT) for ten years (two as Chair) and is a member of the UKSG Events and Education Committee. Andy edited a book on Altmetrics for Facet Publishing which is aimed at researchers and librarians. 

Twitter @Andy_Tattersall

Please also note Andy Tattersall’s complementary UKeiG workshop -  Communicating and tracking research using social media, blogging and altmetrics – on Wednesday 29th March 2023.

For more information, and to book online, go to: https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1695737&group=201314

All UKeiG’s upcoming CPD events for 2023 are regularly updated at: https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/event_list.asp?show=&group=201314