How to use social media to commUnicate your research 

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How to Use Social Media to Communicate Your Research workshop

Join Leila Battison, Webby award-winning science communicator, video producer and writer, for a crash course in how social media works, how to craft a script that will succeed on socials, and the fundamentals of filming and editing your content.

You’ll leave with a one-minute, upload-ready video of your research, tailored to succeed on social media, and set your social media goals with an understanding of how to build and maintain a presence with an audience on social media.

Who is this workshop for?

Researchers and academics who want to share their research with audiences using social media channels.

What’s the format of the workshop?

This is a two-part session that can run over one day. If necessary, part 1 can take place online, part 2 will involve filming the script and we would recommend running it in-person.

Key benefits of our Relatable Research Workshop

  • Effectively communicate your research with audiences on social media

  • Get to grips with how social media works - from how platform algorithms work to what makes successful video content

  • Understand how to build and maintain audiences with a purposeful social media presence

  • Develop skills including basic script writing, the fundamentals of filming and editing content for social media

  • Discover the benefits of and how to apply best practices for social media video content

Facing a specific comms problem? Let our team help you out

Pitch to the media and get your research published with the help of award-winning journalist Hannah Fearn.

Find your focus and make your research relatable with academic researcher, presenter and public speaker Dr Alexis Paton.

Get your academics ready to make an impact on TV with broadcast interviewer and Orwell Prize-winning journalist Rachel Shabi.

Train your marketing and comms team to ace every interview of researchers and academics with Guardian education journalist Judy Friedberg.

Craft a research story into a 1-minute video for social media, with a focus on finding and building a personal brand with Webby award-winning, science communicator, video producer and writer Dr Leila Battison.