BHF DSC Monthly Webinar: May 2023 Maximising Exposure, Communicating your research findings (45.55)

The BHF Data Science Centre is a partnership between Health Data Research UK and the British Heart Foundation that works to deliver the data and data science needed to address some of the most important challenges in heart and circulatory disease research. The Centre 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 as heart attacks, stroke and vascular dementia). The BHF Data Science Centre holds a monthly webinar to provide updates about our work.

For May we featured a special one-off webinar where talked about communicating research findings to different audiences and the best ways to spread our messages, minimise hype, and maintain scientific integrity. We were joined by Dr Leanne Grech, Research Engagement Manager at the British Heart Foundation and Shane Canning, Interim Head of Research Communications, from the Press Office at the University of Edinburgh. Leanne and Shane showcased examples of how researchers can share their work and talking about why sharing the findings of your research are important and can affect policy. We will also be covering how researchers can work collaboratively with communication and PR teams to reach diverse audiences.