Videos / BHF DSC Monthly Webinar: January 2024 How Plain Is Your English? (40:40)
BHF DSC Monthly Webinar: January 2024 How Plain Is Your English? (40:40)
British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre
14 July 2026
Last Updated
During this webinar we discuss best practice for developing plain English summaries from a funder’s perspective and hear from an experienced public contributor, who share their thoughts on the importance of plain English and the art of effectively communicating with the public and key concept of defining your audience for maximum impact. We hear from John Walsh, a public contributor and long-standing member of the BHF Data Science Centre Public Advisory Group who shares his own experience and ideas with the audience.
- 00:00 Welcome and Introductions
- 2:01 Background
- 06:18 Resources for researchers
- 07:11 A public perspective - John Walsh
- 29:56 Questions
- 39:41 Thank you and close
Organisation
British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre
The British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre (BHF DSC) is a partnership between Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) enabling data-led research to improve heart and circulatory health.
It sits within HDR UK and works with a wide range of partners including patients, public, clinicians, researchers and NHS organisations to help them carry out research using health data into the causes, prevention and treatment of all diseases of the heart and circulation (such heart attacks, stroke and vascular dementia).