new resources to help effective research communication!

Anyone who has attended our Communicating your Impact module will know just how deep this subject actually goes, and that doing this well requires a bit of careful planning. 

Our science and research training means that we are great at thinking about the audience of our peers, but forging effective pathways to impact means forging connections with a much more diverse number of audiences who have very different needs.

iPEN's recent webinar featuring Hannah McKercher and George Slim highlighted some great examples of this if your audience is policy makers. For example the templates that Hannah has developed have been tailored specifically as 'A3s' which are routinely used around government to summarise and share information to people who have very little time to read further.

Recently some great new resources have been launched, which make a great addition to the toolkit. Scroll on to find out more!

The SCICOMM LAUNDROMAT - helping you 'take a load off'

The Scicomm Laundromat is a great new resource that spun out of PhD research supported by Te Pūhana Matatini, one of the Centres of Research Excellence (CoRES). Te Pūhana Matatini applies complexity science and inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to try and address the challenging issues we are currently facing.

This website has lots of practical advice, examples, and resources that we encourage you to check out. They have really clear instructions taking you through the 'cycle' and anyone who's been involved with any co-design process will see how this kind of approach has been used. 

There are really clear step-by-step instructions taking all the guess work out of how to use these resources including instructional videos on how to construct the washing machine!

The resources don't refer to programme logics as a tool to help you think through some of the steps. Don't forget to use this too, as it will help 'turbocharge' your scicomm wash cycle thinking.

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FREE online science communications course - thanks Victoria University!

Victoria University has created this complete FREE self-paced online science communications course, funded by the Prime Minister's Science Communications Prize. 

" You will hear from experienced communicators such as Siouxsie Wiles, Shaun Hendy and Rebecca Priestley. They will share their personal science communication journeys and give advice on how to enter the field.
​You will also learn about the current issues facing Aotearoa’s dynamic science communication community, through videos on topics such as communicating with Māori audiences, the ethics of science communication, and the importance of engaging media and policymakers in science issues."
 
They estimate it will take you 6 - 10 hours to work through the course. Click here to find out more and to register.