Communicating Your Research
with Dr Louise Grimmer
Event Overview
Join us for an Introduction to Communicating Your Research, with Dr Louise Grimmer.
Date: Thursday 29 June 2023
Time: 1pm to 2pm (AEST)
Where: Online, via Zoom
Members Only Event: Louise will send a Zoom link to all Promoting Academic Women members prior to the event. Not a member yet? No problem! Join for free by emailing Louise.Grimmer@utas.edu.au - let her know you’d like to join and she’ll sign you up! Or sign up via our website.
Cost: FREE for Promoting Academic Women members. All welcome.
Session Details
An Introduction to Communicating Your Research
Delivered by: Dr Louise Grimmer
No matter the stage of your academic career, increasingly you will be encouraged/expected to disseminate your research with the wider community and key stakeholders (i.e., outside ‘The Academy’ and journal publications).
Research communication is also now very important for job and promotion applications, where it can set you apart from other candidates and/or make a valuable contribution to your case for promotion.
For many of us, this can be a daunting prospect, but there are many ways you can engage in research communication.
You can start by ‘dipping your toes’ and creating your own content via social media, podcasts, non-academic books and other resources, or you can dive right in and participate in broadcast, print and digital media interviews, or write for outlets such as The Conversation, industry publications or the local media.
In this session for Promoting Academic Women members, Louise will provide you with a range of suggestions to get started in research communication, as well as how to continue to refine your approach, based on her extensive experience engaging with, and working in, the media.
Dr Louise Grimmer
About Dr Louise Grimmer
Louise Grimmer is an internationally recognised retail researcher and Fulbright scholar, providing expert media commentary on consumer behaviour, retailing, marketing, advertising and branding.
She has been involved in over 600 media interviews across radio, television, podcasts, print and online media platforms.
She writes regularly for The Conversation where she is the highest-read UTAS academic, and she is the ‘Retail Therapy’ columnist for TasWeekend in The Mercury newspaper.
Louise also has a great deal of experience working on the ‘other side’ of the microphone/camera, previously as the national ‘Sunday Afternoons’ presenter for ABC Radio and currently as a news journalist and presenter for Australian Radio Network, and host of UCTV ‘Alive for Kids’.