Current workshops that I deliver include:
Equity & partnership working in public and community engagement
How can your public and community engagement be more equitable, empowering and sustainable? Using provocation, participation and place cards to encourage peer-led discussions and reflections, this workshop encourages researchers, public engagement professionals, community groups and stakeholders to think about power dynamics and involve different audiences and stakeholders.
Delivered At (Selected):
SCOTPEN (Glasgow Science Centre, 2019)
EUSEA Conference (Vienna, 2019)
Culture, Community and Creativity Conference (ROTOR, University of Huddersfield 2018)
Engage Conference (National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement 2017)
Explore your Research Creatively
How can we use creative arts approaches from dance to poetry, visual arts to infographics, to communicate and start conversations around your research? This workshop can be done in-depth with fewer researchers to focus on one medium (dance, music and movements for Science Ceilidh for example) or for many through facilitated group work with lots of different mediums. This can fit within a conference session, half a day or even a series of workshops to go into real depth and develop further resources.
Delivered At (Selected)
Art & Science of Research (Arts Health Early Career Research Network, 2018)
Ceilidh on the Brain Project (Edinburgh Neuroscience, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, 2017)
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (Oxford, 2016)
Leeds Science Festival, University of Leeds (2015)
Research Hooks - Public Engagement & Communication Training
How do you spark conversations with members of the public in a wide range of settings? This training is designed for researchers and students both with and without prior experience of public engagement, focusing on how to develop a "research hook" to start conversations in a “drop-in” settings and adjust your language, body language, and pitch to different audiences, developing better communication.
Delivered At (Selected):
Festival of Research (University of Stirling, 2019)
Explorathon Training (Edinburgh Beltane Network, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
ESRC Festival of Social Science (University of Edinburgh, 2017)
Interdisciplinary STEM Learning CLPL
Training session for teachers to focus on supporting interdisciplinary Strategies using approaches incorporating movement, traditional dance and other arts into science and other areas of the curriculum and then better interdisciplinary understanding summarising the research around the science of learning, creativity and health and wellbeing (particularly from a neuroscience perspective) to have better understanding of how to embed this into the classroom.
Delivered At (Selected):
Midlothian Education Scotland (2019)
STEM Edinburgh CLPL (2019)
Moray House PGDE cohorts (2019, 2018)
Highlands & Islands PGDE residential (2018)
Inverness STEM Academy (2017)
ASE Scorland Conference 2016
Other Workshops I have been involved with include:
Code Crackers (World Innovation Summit for Education, Qatar Foundation, 2015)
OR Surgery (Abu Dhabi Science Festival 2015 - 2011, Edinburgh International Science Festival 2011 - 2009)
You can see my talks here.