Researchers' Week: How to convert tech-speak to lay-speak for bids and networking (or Refining your message and being succinct when faced with a word limit).

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Researchers' Week: How to convert tech-speak to lay-speak for bids and networking (or Refining your message and being succinct when faced with a word limit).

By Doctoral College - University of Wolverhampton

Date and time

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:00 - 15:00 GMT+1

Location

University of Wolverhampton

MD165 Research Hub, Harrison Learning Centre Wolverhampton WV1 1RA United Kingdom

Description

14:00 How to convert tech-speak to lay-speak for bids and networking (or Refining your message and being succinct when faced with a word limit!) (Sam Warner)

This session is to help you to distil a complex and often technical description into lay-speak so that non-technical and non-academic funders can easily understand the aim, concept and objective of any project or bid. This also applies when networking. When someone asks you “What do you do?” or “What is your PhD on?” can you tell them in just three of four sentences? And when they ask why you are doing it, can you answer that in a few sentences? To keep people engaged you have learn to use their language and use analogies they understand.




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The Doctoral College was established in 2013/14. All our postgraduate research students studying in the UK or with our partners abroad, part-time or full time belong to both their Faculty and the Doctoral College.

The Doctoral College is managed through the Research Policy Unit and uses the combined expertise in the Research Hub to deliver its mission. There is dedicated administrative support for this activity that will provide a central contact point for staff and for PGR students.

The Doctoral College:

  • Coordinates and delivers a comprehensive programme of research training:

  • Research Skills Development Workshops for research students

  • Research Supervisors Development Programme (RSDP) for research supervisors.

  • Builds an overarching and vibrant research community that unites and supports all research students.

  • Contributes to the development of early research staff e.g. The Early Researcher Award Scheme (ERAS). www.wlv.ac.uk/ERAS

  • Coordinates research student representation.

  • Organises research events and conferences.

For further information see www.wlv.ac.uk/doctoralcollege. Twitter @wlv_doctoralcol

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