How to get more grants through better science communications

The Tea Room

If you’re a researcher who cringes at social media or public speaking this episode is just for you.

This week’s The Tea Room is a special episode for anyone engaged in medical research.

We discover straightforward strategies for enhancing your profile and how to boost your odds at getting grants.

Our guest, Kylie Ahern, knows a lot about science communications. In 2004 she started Cosmos magazine; Australia’s award-winning science magazine. Now Ms Ahern consults to researchers and institutions about the secret behind getting grants and how to engage an audience authentically.

“Ultimately science needs to be funded so you need to engage people and not just assume that they know about what you are doing and why,” she says.

Kylie provides a solid place to start creating a science communication strategy for your research.

“List the five top questions that people always ask about your research? How do you answer them? And then start creating content about that start putting it out there,” she said.

Ms Ahern acknowledges that time is a challenge for most medical researchers but that fear also gets in the way of creating a strategy.

“Think of the thing you fear the most, maybe it’s talking or media, and lean into it. That the thing I tended to not do when I was younger,” she said.

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