People: Elisavet Dimitokali
- Current role:
- PhD student
- Institution:
- University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)
- Discipline:
- Arts and humanities
What motivated you to engage the public with your work?
Feedback from the audience, inform the public with updated information, exchange knowledge, networking.
Describe the public engagement activity you have done.
Conference participations, workshops participation, presentations to other academics, lords and MPs, and publishing papers in academic journals.
What are your top three tips for other researchers?
1. Don't be scared
2. Have a good story to say.
3. Publish as soon as possible
What are your top three resources to support your engagement work?
1. Supervisors.
2. Engage with publishers to see what they are looking for.
3. Ask for opinions from people close to you..see what people who don't know your work can understand from your story
What would you say to encourage another researcher to engage with the public?
It will boost your CV!
