"Lost in Translation - How to communicate most effectively with non-academics’

KT-EQUAL; an EPSRC funded project on knowledge transfer for extending quality life for older and disabled people (www.equal.ac.uk) is running a free of charge workshop for researchers with CARDI (http://www.cardi.ie/) on the 23rd June 2011 at the Holiday Inn, Belfast.

If any of your research team would like to attend please see the information below about the workshop and a link to register attendance.

"Lost in Translation - How to communicate most effectively with non-academics’

Carrying out ageing research, implementing policies for an ageing population and working with older people requires effective communication. And this can involve a diverse range of  audiences including funders, older people, community and voluntary organisations, policy makers and the media. This event involves a mixture of talks and workshops on how to avoid key messages getting lost in translation.

Issues to be covered include

• Writing grant bids to maximise chances of securing funding
• Communicating to influence policy
• Publicising research through new and old media
• Engaging with older people
• Choosing the right methods for two-way engagement
• Using the right language
• Successful and unsuccessful approaches

Please follow the link to register your attendance http://kt-equal.org.uk/calendar/56/32-Lost-in-Translation---How-to-communicate-most-effectively-with-non-academics