Short, sharp and to the point: communicating your research with brevity and impact

We live in a world where, if you can’t talk about what you do at the drop of a hat, and sometimes in a very short time frame, you potentially risk losing that next grant, promotion or job. This really is the age of the elevator pitch.

In this fast-paced, accessible and engaging session, Simon Clews will present a look at communicating academic research to audiences outside your peers and colleagues and even beyond the walls of the academy.

In this keynote presentation he will talk about:

• general communication skills and making good public presentations
• the challenges and opportunities of public speaking
• identifying your audiences and speaking to them in a way that they will understand
• writing a great talk, designing the visuals to go with it, and putting them together to deliver a successful presentation

This session will be followed by an optional Q&A period with the facilitator from 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM.

Facilitator

Simon Clews

Currently a Learning Advisor for the Australian National University, Simon Clews was the inaugural Director of the Melbourne Engagement Lab at Melbourne University. There for fifteen years he enhanced the reputation of a world leading and innovative university through training, encouraging and facilitating some of Australia’s brightest minds to make their work accessible to non-academic audiences. He then took the show on the road and these days – pandemics permitting – can usually be found wandering the world turning researchers and academics into inspiring communicators. He also works with professional writers helping them hone their craft and is one of the world’s most experienced literary and ideas-based event organisers.

He is the author of The New Academic – how to write, present and profile your amazing research to the world (NewSouth Books) and Your Time Starts Now! – a guide to achieving success in the Three Minute Thesis competition (Thesis Whisperer Books).  Coming next year: the US edition of The New Academic with SourceBooks, and Be Visible Or Vanish: Engage, Influence, and Ensure Your Research Has Impact with Thesis Whisperer Inger Mewburn for Routledge.  

For more information visit www.simonclews.com.

REGISTRATION

Registration in this session is required and is now open. Those successfully registered will receive a confirmation email and Zoom link within a week of the workshop date.