British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Raising Research Profiles: Fostering Media Coverage in the Arts and Humanities
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
1 May 2002
The aim of this one-day conference is to examine ways to encourage improved media coverage of research in the arts and humanities, and the universities where this research is being undertaken. The event will also launch the extension of AlphaGalileo, the electronic news service for science journalists, to the arts and humanities.
Audience: communications directors, press and public relations officers at Higher Education Institutions and other research institutions.
Cost: £30 (including buffet lunch, tea and coffees)
Programme
10.00 | Registration |
10.30 | Introduction by Revd Professor John Morrill, Vice-President, The British Academy |
10.40 | The benefits to universities of wider dissemination of research |
10.50 | The national media's demand for stories on research in the arts and humanities |
11.05 | Questions and Answers |
11.20 | Coffee |
11.30 | Raising the profile of research in the humanities |
11.45 | What history stories does the public want? Evidence from BBC market research |
12.00 | Questions and Answers |
12.15 | Demonstration of AlphaGalileo |
12.45 | Buffet lunch |
13.45 | How to get your story into the media? a case study |
14.00 | How to get your story into the media? a case study |
14.15 | How to get your story into the media? a case study |
14.30 | Coffee (with informal demonstrations of AlphaGalileo) |
15.00 | Open forum, questions and answers |
16.00 | Concluding comments by Joanna Motion, Executive Director, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (Europe) |
16.15 | Conference Ends |