Outreach & Advocacy
This theme brings together guidance, templates and examples that support researchers and practitioners to share their work clearly, effectively and impactfully with different audiences.
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📚 Language matters
Always explain acronyms, maybe keeping a shared glossary. Then everyone can follow along without having to ask about being included.
📝 Personas and User Stories
Personas and user stories can help to ensure software meets users needs, but this can also be used to plan events or recruitment - create personas and situations for different needs or backgrounds, and check your plans against them!
✨ Hybrid is hard - but important!
Hybrid events can be more difficult or expensive. However, ror many it is a choice between "hybrid or not at all" due to caring responsibilities, disabilities, visas and all kinds of other reasons. Don’t lose those people!
Youtube - KE Panel at the SSI Research Software Camp
A discussion around how to ensure that knowledge is shared and maintained
community-building
engagement-and-participation
events
outreach-and-advocacy
Inclusion, diversity and accessibility @ PyCon2025
Good example of reasonable adjustments and services a conference can provide to improve inclusion, diversity and accessibility
events
community-building
engagement-and-participation
inclusion
outreach-and-advocacy
Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Accessibility in Research Software Engineering - Guidelines for Making a Difference
Shows background on research with members of the UK RSE community, outline components and criticisms of EDIA initiatives, and offer the approaches most likely to lead to improved equity in RSE specifically and in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) more broadly.
outreach-and-advocacy
inclusion
Move the Needle Project
A collaborative project tracking the efforts of people trying to transform the field of supercomputing.
outreach-and-advocacy
inclusion
engagement-and-participation
community-building
N8 CIR EDI Recruitment Checklist
A checklist to aid in inclusive recruitment from assessment of current status, recruitment text, advertising and interview.
outreach-and-advocacy
inclusion
engagement-and-participation
recruitment
Template for documenting outreach activities
A reusable template to capture everything you need for outreach activities to be repeatable
outreach-and-advocacy
Parallel Sort Outreach Activity
Documentation for a reusable outreach activity teaching some concepts about parallelism
outreach-and-advocacy
So, you want to reach out? Lessons from a "science for all" programme
Blog article exploring how to design outreach programmes to be successful
outreach-and-advocacy
engagement-and-participation
Ten simple rules for scientists engaging in science communication
A journal exploring science communication and 10 simple rules for planning, developing, and evaluating science communication activities.
professional-development
collaboration
outreach-and-advocacy
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