TRI Media Training Workshop
TRI's Media Training Workshop will help researchers improve their media performance.
Australian Science Media Centre senior media officer and former biologist Dr Joe Milton will take up to 50 researchers though storytelling techniques that can also be applied to stakeholder engagement, funding applications, public presentations and outreach activities. He will cover ways to explain complex science to general audiences, including use of imagery, analogy and simile, to help build science and health literacy in the community.
The workshop will help researchers understand why media work is important for their careers, how the media landscape is changing, and what it means for public discourse.
Event Details
Date: Thursday 30 January 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Register: Via EventsAir
Presenter Details
Dr Joe Milton, Senior Media Officer at the Australian Science Media Centre
Dr Joe Milton is a biologist who, after studying evolution for ten years at various Scottish universities, made a move into science journalism.
Since then, Joe has worked as the Assistant Editor of a pair of scientific journals for the Royal Society of Biology, and written for the Financial Times, Nature and New Scientist, among others.
Joe joined the UK Science Media Centre in 2010, where he was Senior Press Officer for Mental Health, before taking up the position of Senior Media Officer at the Australian Science Media Centre (AusSMC) in 2012. Joe is a regular guest on ABC Weekend Nightlife and on ABC NSW & ACT Evenings, chatting science with hosts Suzanne Hill and Renee Krosch. And for 10 years, Joe was one of ABC Radio National’s ‘research filters’, telling the stories of science on the Drive show with hosts Waleed Ali, Patricia Karvelas, and Andy Park.
