Communications & Outreach

Effective communication is vital to knowledge exchange. This applies both to how we communicate with others in our community to foster strong, productive collaborations, and to how we engage external audiences to share our work more widely. Thoughtful and strategic communication can increase engagement, strengthen partnerships, attract funding opportunities, and spark new collaborations with communities you may not have previously connected with.

This theme brings together guidance, templates and examples that support researchers and practitioners to share their work clearly, effectively and impactfully with different audiences.

What is included?

Communications and outreach resources that support:

• Explaining computational research to non-specialist audiences
• Media and social media communications
• Developing shared communication infrastructure
• Public engagement activities
• Designing and documenting outreach activities

What is not included?

• Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility guidance. See EDIA.
• Building and nurturing collaborations. See Collaboration and Community Building.

Resources

Communications & Outreach

• Basic Template for Meeting Minutes

• Ten simple rules for scientists engaging in science communication
• So, you want to reach out? Lessons from a ‘science for all’ programme

Outreach Activities:

• Example template for documenting an interactive outreach activity
  This template supports reuse and adaptation of outreach activities, allowing others to replicate or adapt activities without redesigning from scratch.
  • Example of using the template: EPCC's Parallel Sort Outreach Activity
    A worked example demonstrating how the documentation template can be applied in practice.