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EMC Masterclass – Using social media to meet your aims

7 Dec 2022

Run by the Education Media Centre this highly interactive small group online training session is aimed at researchers who want their work to reach non-academic audiences. Participants will be briefed beforehand about what to expect and will be asked to bring along an item – preferably a piece of research – that they would like to share more widely.

Topics covered at this session include:

Why do you need to be on social media?
Which platforms to use
Getting started without taking risks
Tone – keeping it professional
Knowing your target audience and growing it
What to share; what not to share
What to do if things go wrong
Showcasing good examples
Practical exercise – writing a post

Structure of the session:

10:00	Welcome and introductions
10:10	What is social media and why is it such a big deal?
10:30	Barriers to and benefits of engaging with social media
10:45	Which platforms to use?
11:05	Break
11:20	Exercise 1: Writing a good social media bio
11:40	Exercise 2: Who to follow?
12:00	Exercise 3 : What to post?
12:20	Strategy and growing your audience
12:40	What do to if something goes wrong
13:00	Close and feedback forms

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Trainer

Catherine McDonald, Ms

Trustee at Education Media Centre

The trainer for the social media session will be Catherine McDonald. Catherine spent 20 years in radio and television, working for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, before joining the University of Essex in 2013. As Senior Communications Officer for...

Education Media Centre

Do you ever see an education story in the news and ask: “What`s the evidence behind that? If so, the Education Media Centre aims to help you find out.

The centre is an independent charity set up to improve understanding of education research and evidence.

Our goal is to inform evidence-based policy and practice by raising awareness of what we know about what works – and what doesn’t – in education.

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