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: 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.