Events
Accolade - Communicating with the Media - Online Workshop
Run by with facilitators Stewart O'Reilly, a professional actor and Learning & Development practitioner and , a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London.
Gradtrain has tailored its popular Communicating with the Media Workshop to work in a virtual format. Delivered via Zoom, the first three hour workshop provides advice on the process and practicalities of dealing with the media, from how a TV or Video conferencing interview works, clothing, camera and microphone techniques, pay expectations and how to build long-lasting relationships. The second part of the workshop (taking place on a separate day) simulates a mock interview whereby the academic is invited onto a programme to provide an 鈥榚xpert analysis鈥� around their subject with a TV journalist. This session will be 30 minutes long and done in pairs (taken in turns with another academic) so that feedback can be provided by the trainer playing the 鈥楯ournalist鈥� and so that earning is strengthened by observing another academic in the same session. Participants will also receive a copy of their video interviews/presentations and a media training pack.
Trainer bios
Stewart O'Reilly
Stewart is a professional actor, Learning & Development practitioner and runs notsobigfilms; a production company creating training and marketing videos for individuals and businesses. He took over GradTrain from Dr Eliza Filby in 2019, after three years of working for them as a trainer. After training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), he applied his communications skills as a Communications Manager for several large corporates including HSBC, Barclays, Credit Suisse and Lloyds TSB. Stewart regularly works on learning events with clients such as BBC, PwC, IBM and Co-op, helping employees to have better outcomes at work through learning about their own behaviours and the impact that these can have.
Dr Shanon Shah
Dr is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, where he also received his doctorate in the sociology of religion in 2015. He has previously lectured in religious studies at King's, the University of Kent, the Institute of Ismaili Studies and St Augustine鈥檚 College of Theology. He has also conducted research for , an educational charity focusing on minority religions and alternative spiritualities based at King's, and regularly writes for the acclaimed quarterly periodical . Before embarking on academia, Shanon was an .