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Communicating research to policy audiences

Build trust, relevance, and compelling messages

  • Online, hybrid or in person, dates to suit your schedule
  • Hands-on training for your team to apply practical guidance and tools
  • Up to 90 participants

Successful policy engagement requires more than contacts. It needs trust, relevance, and compelling communication.

This practical workshop shows you how to engage effectively with policy influencers, choose the right activities, and create policy briefs, infographics, or presentations that get noticed. You will explore fellowships, secondments, and interdisciplinary approaches, and gain practical skills for giving oral evidence with confidence.

What you’ll walk away with

  • Strategies for building trust and relevance with policy audiences
  • Guidance on choosing effective engagement activities
  • Practical skills for creating briefs, infographics, and presentations
  • Confidence in giving oral evidence and communicating with impact

Your booking includes

  • Pre-workshop scoping call to tailor delivery to your team
  • Practical worksheets and templates for each participant
  • Take-home framework cards and reference material
  • Post-workshop email follow-up with curated resources

Choose your format

Every format covers the same core method. Pick the depth that fits your team’s time.

Express session
1 hour
  • A focused one-hour introduction to the essentials
  • Plenary briefing with a quick applied prompt
  • The most accessible way to bring the topic to your team
  • Ideal as a first taste or a tight refresher
Up to 90 participants
from £11 per person
£990
per team
Rapid session
1.5 hours
  • Focused on the most essential guidance
  • Plenary discussion + brief applied activity
  • Builds capacity and introduces practical tools
  • Ideal when time is especially limited
Up to 90 participants
from £15 per person
£1,390
per team
Popular
Half-day session
3 hours
  • In-depth practical guidance
  • Guided individual + group work to apply key skills
  • Develops practical skills through hands-on practice
  • Ideal for teams ready to move to active application
Up to 90 participants
from £28 per person
£2,490
per team
Full-day session
6 hours
  • Advanced, detailed practical guidance
  • Extended practical activities + detailed examples
  • Builds advanced skills + supports applying insights to current and future work
  • Suggested: split over two days
Up to 90 participants
from £54 per person
£4,890
per team

This is a VAT-exempt educational service provided by a non-profit, charitable organisation.

We deliver online or in person across the UK, with growing international availability.

Not sure where to start?

Book a 30-minute call with one of our trainers. We’ll talk through your situation and help you choose the right next step.

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