Have you considered blogging about your research, but have been unsure about where to start? Blogging can be an effective way of communicating to academic colleagues, practitioners, journalists and policymakers and can enable you to develop new approaches to engage different audiences with your research.

This hands-on workshop is for PhD students, researchers and communication assistants who want advice on blogging their research and to discuss the benefits and challenges of entering the blogging sphere. You don't need to prepare anything or bring any devices. Tea and biscuits will be served.

Working in a small group, you’ll be matched with an editor of one of the LSE public-facing blogs, who will share practical tips, help you plan a potential blog post and give you confidence to enter the blogging sphere, no matter your current stage of research.

Facilitators at this session will be: Syerramia Willoughby (Editor, Africa@LSE);Tena Prelec (Editor, LSE EUROPP); Roch Dunin-Wąsowicz (Editor, LSE Brexit); Rosemary Deller (Editor, LSE Review of Books); Helen Traill (PhD candidate, LSE Sociology); Dr Jason Hickel (LSE Anthropology); and Dr Elliott Green (LSE International Development).

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Since the launch of the first LSE blog in 2010, LSE’s blog community has grown into one of the world’s primary digital knowledge exchange platforms for academics, experts and the public. Collectively, the blogs received 9 million views in 2016 alone, and 1 in 9 of the hits to the LSE website is to an LSE blog post. With over 180,000 unique visitors each week, the LSE blog community has become an internationally renowned hub for evidence-based commentary and accessible summaries of academic research.

How to Blog Your PhD or Research: Workshop Session 12/6/2017 16:15-17:45