A little light humour for a Friday… The latest round of Ig Nobel Prizes was given out last night, and for those of us in…
‘Life Is Too Short to RTFM’ wins Ig Nobel for Literature
14/09/2018
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Theory of Change Essentials – online course
13/09/2018
BOND is offering their Theory of Change Essential online course again next month. Rates are based on membership and the size of your organisation, and…
Pitch your podcast to BBC radio
11/09/2018
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Have you got an original idea for a podcast? Why not pitch it to the BBC? There is a standard commissioning process for podcasts destined…
Going ‘mobile first’ to reach African audiences
03/09/2018
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Mobile means more than being on the move, it means connecting to the next generation of African audiences. Recent data shows that 52% of the world’s website traffic…
Research impact: ‘top tips’ on communicating & pitching research to non-academic audiences
30/08/2018
Some great ideas about getting your research out of the lab and in front of the public, from top researchers at the University of Manchester:…
Referencing sources – making it work for non-academic audiences
14/08/2018
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Referencing our sources of evidence when writing for academic audiences is common practice. Yet, for the average reader of research outside academia, references are often…
Four principles to make evidence synthesis more useful for policy
10/08/2018
Some of the top science policymakers in the UK have teamed up to urge that we ‘Reward the creation of analyses for policymakers that are…
Using art to talk science
09/08/2018
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In a recent article on The Conversation, Tim Caulfield, Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta and prolific science debunker,…
Four personality traits ECRs can foster to help impact policy and practice
23/07/2018
Researchers seeking to translate their work into ‘impact’ – that is, any of the range of positive, tangible influences on society possible through research –…
Viral science video debunks bad viral science videos
17/07/2018
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If you work in research uptake you’ve thought about whether to invest time and money in video. Unless you embrace using new channels and communications…
Tailored communications and researcher capacity building will help refugees
02/07/2018
The final round of formal consultations to establish the Global Compact on Refugees, led by UNHCR, is underway in Geneva. The objective is to improve…
Live Tweeting conferences: Top 10 tips for research uptake
07/05/2018
As a Research Uptake professional I’m fascinated by the power of social media, especially using Twitter to communicate interesting discussions, observations, and insights surrounding research…
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