Engineering: Chance to shine

 

University of Southampton postgraduate science students offered media training.

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The Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics is introducing a new programme to help researchers tune their communication skills to help promote public understanding of science and technology.
 
Joyce Lewis of the School of Electronics and Computer Science who devised the programme said: “Media training is essential in building confidence and awareness of how to get the best out of media opportunities, and it also adds great value to general communication skills. This is a really useful course, packed full of information and examples, and delivered by experts with wide-ranging backgrounds in media and academic environments.”
 
The programme will be designed in two stages to provide a broader introduction to the media. Later, an intensive individual interview training sessions with video playback and analysis will be offered to the students by Dr Jon Copley of the School of Ocean and Earth Science, science journalist Dr Claire Ainsworth, and Hélène Murphy, Media Consultant for ECS

High profile journalists

The first module will be delivered four times during the course of this academic year, and each one will have the involvement of a high-profile journalist with Jonathan Fildes of BBC Technology Online being first.
 
The programme is one of many funded by the FESM Skills Enhancement Fund, which received funding this year on the theme of ‘Public Understanding and Outreach Skills.’
 
Other projects funded include ‘Using Google Earth to communicate earth science’ (Professor David Martin); an ISVR workshop on Outreach Skills (Dr Steve Dorney); and ‘Communication and social responsibility in geographical practice’ (Dr Mary Edwards).

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