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Designed for Postgraduate Researchers
The academic world is predicated on effective communication, whether through formal publication, lecturing, public engagement, self-promotion or interacting with scholarly peers. Yet, early career researchers habitually adopt the communicative norms and assumed audiences within their own disciplinary niches, excluding other potentially advantageous avenues. Hence, developing an extensive, professional, scholarly communication toolkit to better convey their endeavours, represents a critical imperative for all effective researchers
Workshop attendees will engage with a range of individual and small group exercises, employing an enjoyable range of interactive, discursive and game-based learning methods. They will examine how enhancing their written, verbal and non-verbal communication, alongside addressing different audiences and broader communities鈥� expectations, needs and values can increase their research鈥檚 visibility. The session will also explore building an effective social media and professional personal brand for engendering beneficial collaborative opportunities.
The session will be hosted by Senior Editor of Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal Dr Gaz J Johnson (Institute of Advanced Study). A former communications lecturer and multimedia creation practitioner, Dr Johnson maintains research interests in the power-relationships and political economy within emergent open access scholarly praxis.