Access and Success Academy – Dissemination: Writing Up Your Research for Publication & Presenting Findings to a Non-specialist Audience

This course is a part of NEON Access and Success Academy Evidence of Impact Series. Other sessions in the series include ‘Effective Methods and Practice When Working with Younger Learners‘, ‘Adopting Quantitative Methods to Demonstrate Impact‘ and ‘Comparison Groups and Causality – Can This Work for Widening Access?‘. 

As part of their approach to regulating equality of opportunity the Office for Students (OfS) is asking the higher education sector to strengthen its evaluation and then share their results publicly via conferences and journal publications. Effective dissemination of your evaluation results ensures your research’s impact and utility reach its full potential and informs the higher education sector of good practices that truly work. It also allows those outside the field to recognise the importance of widening access and participation efforts and the impact being made. This one-day course will enable delegates to specifically consider publications and by the end of the day they will be able to:  

• Decide when work should be published in academic journals.  

• Choose which type of paper is most appropriate for their work.  

• Be able to choose appropriate journals for their own publications.  

• Construct papers taking account of the specific requirements according to the journal to which the work is being submitted.  

• Know how to decide the order of the authors.  

• How to handle rejection.  

• Know their audience.  

• Create an audience-centred presentation.  

• Know how to use the “right” words.  

• Understand the principals of clear communication.  

• Organise materials to make presentations relevant and compelling.  

• Identify the benefits of using infographics.  

• Be able to continue the conversation after the presentation ends