Media training for our community
We provide a yearly programme of media training events for members of our community including sessions on how to use media engagement to raise your research profile and how to use social media to extend your networks.
We also arrange regular training sessions with editors from The Conversation who help our researchers apply their expertise to the national and international news agenda.
We also provide one-to-one advice and support to researchers who are engaging with the media.
If you want a bespoke session for your team, we can help with that too.
Email comms@essex.ac.uk to find out more about media training opportunities.
Articles supporting your development
There is a library of online articles focused on helping researchers develop their skills, including communications skills, on the University blog.
Take a look for advice on everything from how to write a blog and how to give a great broadcast interview to how to write for The Conversation.
External media training and advice resources
For researchers wanting to really hone their communications skills and make the most out of working with the media, there are a range of external training opportunities and resources available.
Take a look at:
- The Economic and Social Research Council has a handy online toolkit for media relations as well as guide for using social media for impact.
- The Science Media Centre runs regular introduction to the media training sessions and has a series of short, useful media guides for academics.
- The team at The Conversation provide a range of online training resources for academics at partner universities.
- Vitae, which provides a broad range of resources helping researchers realise their potential, has an online communications and media course.
- If you have been awarded a research grant by a national research council, you might be entitled to free media training events organised by that council’s press office. Speak to your research council contact to find out what you are entitled to.
