Why work with us?
There are benefits for academics in the process of collaborating with producers, and benefits in having a programme about your research broadcast to a large audience.
The NCCPE and the Wellcome Trust funded an evaluation of our work and this found the following benefits in the process of working with us -
Where the collaboration has resulted in a broadcast programme or series, academics have reported the effects, which have included –
The three short videos in the 'What we do' section are of academics relating their experiences of working with us.
The NCCPE and the Wellcome Trust funded an evaluation of our work and this found the following benefits in the process of working with us -
- Helps academics better understand the needs of programme makers and broadcasters, and understand how to develop their work into potential broadcast material
- Benefits academics by providing new ways of looking at how to succinctly pitch and ‘sell’ their work for research funding; seen as a similar process to pitching for programme commissions
- Allows academics to closely look at their own work and how they communicate it to a wider, non-academic audience
- Raises the profile of the university as an institution that has a source of academics with strong broadcast potential, both in terms of presenter talent and programme ideas
- Broadcasters and production companies have their eyes opened to a wealth of potential material they would have never have had the time to find out about and develop themselves
Where the collaboration has resulted in a broadcast programme or series, academics have reported the effects, which have included –
- Funding to undertake research, provided by the programme
- Invitations to take part in future research collaborations from organisations new to them, who approached the academic after seeing the programme
- Raising the profile of their research area among the public, increasing awareness of its significance and putting it ‘on the radar’ nationally
- Contact from the public in praise of their research, expressing their appreciation of the programme, and in some cases providing new evidence/testimony/research leads of value
- Material to include in REF impact case studies
- Raising of their individual profile, leading to requests for their input and expertise from fellow professionals working on other projects, creating further impact
- An enjoyable experience with opportunities to do things and go places that wouldn’t have happened in the usual course of their work
The three short videos in the 'What we do' section are of academics relating their experiences of working with us.