Engaged Researcher Online - Research Storytelling

Beginners

Capturing your audience’s attention and keeping it is vital for any type of public engagement. Having a good story to tell and then telling it in a compelling way enables you to connect with a wide audience. This module takes you through the art and science of storytelling: exploring attention and motivation, dramatic structure, rhetorical devices, visual enhancements, and peripheral influences so that you can craft your own engaging story.

The course will be led by Sarah Cruise. Sarah is passionate about the art and science of communication and eloquential is her rattle bag of knowledge, skills and experience which she uses to train, coach and facilitate. Sarah collects research from areas such as psychology and neuroscience, along with practitioners experience from the performing arts to fill her bag of tricks, tips and advice. Sarah has been involved in public engagement training since 2006, working closely with Cambridge University. She is also a peripatetic teacher of communication and performance skills in schools and a co-presenter on the Gin & Topic podcast.

• PhD students
• Post-docs
• Researchers
• Public Engagement Professionals

Number of sessions: 3

• Provide guidance on how to capture and maintain attention
• Explore ways of increasing memorability through visuals, imagination, and rhetorical devices
• Show the importance of peripheral influences (style of writing, sound of voice, visual appearance etc) and how to ensure that they are most supportive of your story

After this course participants will be able to:

• Identify ways in which they can motivate an audience to engage with their research
• Use dramatic tools to structure and enhance their story

Good internet connection.

If you have troubles joining the sessions or have any queries, please contact Selen Etingu-Breslaw (selen.etingubreslaw@admin.cam.ac.uk) or Diogo Gomes (dam74@medschl.cam.ac.uk).

• Engaged Researcher - Animate your research
• Engaged Researcher Online - Video training: Shooting and Editing

• Communication
• Presentation Skills
• Public Engagement
• Writing Skills