The UK electronic information Group (UKeiG) is pleased to announce a new 2-hour lunchtime online CPD course ‘Eye catching research communications - using creative tools to make your own videos, animations and graphics' on Thursday 17^th  July 2025 12  - 2 pm.

Book now: https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1968332&group=201314

Overview

Social media is an important means of communicating your research but are you making the most of it in these ever-changing times? Videos, animations and infographics are powerful methods to catch the attention of wide audiences and help showcase research in ways that traditional activities cannot. Regardless of your technical or creative abilities, anyone can make a good infographic or animation with the right tuition.

This course will demystify many of the issues that may have put you off from taking your first steps into this area of activity. You’ll learn how to use a suite of affordable and free online tools you can use to create professional looking communications and campaigns. The session will include live demos as well as provide you with several hacks and shortcuts to help your first outputs be as good as they can be. You’ll discover that these activities need not be laborious or expensive.

The course will also explore AI's potential to support communication activities and highlight pitfalls of being overly reliant on them.

Delegates will go away inspired and equipped to take their research communications to the next level.

Who should attend?

This course will be of interest to a 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.

There are two other complementary courses that you may also want to consider. All three offer a global overview of the research communications ecosystem.

Ø  Communicating and capturing research impact using social media and altmetrics

Ø  Words and sound - using blogs and podcasts to disseminate research to diverse audiences.

Course outline and learning outcomes

Delegates will acquire an understanding of:

Ø  Mastering creative tools for making eye-catching animations and infographics

Ø  Storyboarding and design techniques to ensure your communications are high quality.

It will also provide useful tips for using AI as part of your creative communications activities as well as how to avoid any pitfalls from these new technologies.

Speaker

Andy Tattersall is an information and communications professional with twenty years’ experience within academia and a background in journalism. He writes, teaches and gives talks about research and professional communications, social media, information literacy, open research and altmetrics. Andy has a hands-on approach to all of these and has created countless videos, animation, podcasts, blogs in addition to other outputs. Andy received a Teaching Senate Award from The University of Sheffield for his pioneering work on Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) 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. Andy has written extensively for the LSE Impact Blog and The Conversation. He is also part-funded as the scientific communications lead for the NIHR-Funded knowledge mobilisation for public health project KNOW-PH.

https://linktr.ee/andy_tattersall

Pricing

The course (including presentation slides and documentation) costs:

Ø  UKeiG/CILIP members £35 + VAT

Ø  Employer Partner staff £52 +VAT (Please contact your rep or email employerpartners@cilip.org.uk for the discount code)

Ø  Non-members £65 + VAT

Credit and debit cards are the preferred method of payment. Invoices are available on request using the online ‘Bill Me’ option.

For more information, and to book online, go to: https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1968332&group=201314

All UKeiG’s upcoming CPD events for 2025 are regularly updated at: https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/event_list.asp?show=&group=201314

Upcoming courses include:

Ø  Data Visualisation for librarians, information and knowledge professionals

Ø  Generative AI and Retrieval Augmented Generation for librarians, information and knowledge professionals

Ø  Getting Started on Bluesky

Ø  Artificial intelligence for librarians, information and knowledge professionals

Ø  Communicating and capturing research impact using social media and altmetrics

Coming soon

Words and Sound - Using blogs and podcasts to disseminate research to diverse audiences

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Registered Charity No. 313014

CILIP members can join UKeiG for free via the CILIP website

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