Free training and discussion groups
A programme of free training events, a quarterly reading group and regular discussion groups, based on feedback from the impact culture community, co-hosted with a different member of the community each session.
Programme for 2024
Event
Type
Duration
Date
Time
Free training
2 hours
6 Oct 2025
09:00
To find out what’s planned for 2024, make suggestions or offer your own session, please contact Madie.
Free training: How to promote your article and impact policy
Date: 12 November, 2024
Time: 16:00
Now that you've published your article, what steps should you take to ensure it receives the attention it deserves? Discover practical strategies to amplify your research and tailor your targeting. Whether you're an academic, researcher, or policy enthusiast, learn how to navigate media channels, engage with stakeholders, and maximize the influence of your findings. Gain actionable tips from experts in the field and empower yourself to make a real difference in shaping policies that matter. Hosted by Sean Scarisbrick, Michael Todd, and Sophie Boddington and featuring prestigious guest speakers with a Q&A session, the webinar will provide essential guidance for anyone hoping to increase the reach of their research.
Free training: The Productive Researcher
Date: 2 December, 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Find out how you can become significantly more productive as a researcher in a fraction of your current working day.
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Key benefits:
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Leave with practical tools you can use immediately to prioritise limited time to achieve more ambitious career goals
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Gain a deeper understanding of the values that underpin your work, and the reasons why you feel time pressured
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Identify priorities that are as much about being as they are about doing, and that are stretching, motivational, authentic, relational and tailored to your unique strengths and abilities
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Turn these into an “experiment” to make practical changes that create a positive feedback loop between your priorities and your motivation, so you can become increasingly focussed and productive
Free training: Pitching policy options in seminars and webinars
Date: 7 April, 2025
Time: 09:00 - 11:00
Gain practical skills and confidence to deliver presentations to policy audiences that drive action and leave a lasting impression. You will learn from research on what makes a compelling presentation, including insights from TED talk speakers, and consider how you can have just as much impact face-to-face and online. Discussion includes sharing tips on dealing with nerves and increasing confidence as a public speaker.
Free training: Designing and facilitating meetings/workshops with non-academic partners
Date: 6 October, 2025
Time: 09:00 - 11:00
This session will give you everything you need to design and facilitate partnership meetings and workshops with non-academic partners that are easy to facilitate, efficient and enjoyable generate and communicate real-world impacts from your research. You will learn about practical tools to grow your confidence and effectiveness as a facilitator, which you will be able to use immediately to take meetings and workshops to a new level.