Crucial Conversations

Liz Simmonds is Assistant Head of the Postdoc Academy and the University's Institutional Lead for Research Culture. In this episode, she talks to Steve Joy from the Researcher Development team about what research culture is, why it matters to early-career researchers, and the ways in which Cambridge is striving to make changes.Production team: Christian Gilliam, Sonja Tomašković, Ruth Laing.

Steve Joy from the Researcher Development team talks to Emma Baker, journalist and broadcaster, about how to harness the art of great storytelling to effectively communicate your research to a range of non-specialist audiences.Production team: Christian Gilliam, Sonja Tomašković, Ruth Laing.

What does it mean to be a public intellectual today? How can PhD students best utilise online platforms such as YouTube to disseminate ideas and engage new audiences? Christian Gilliam from the Researcher Development team and Joram Appel of TimeGhost discuss the opportunities and challenges presented by online platforms to the work of the public intellectual.Production team: Christian Gilliam, Sonja Tomašković, Ruth Laing.

These days, it's axiomatic that impostor feelings run rife through academia. Dr Tracey Stead, who has twenty years' professional experience in academia and research, shares her views on impostor feelings and full-blown impostor syndrome with Steve Joy from the Researcher Development team, and offers practical tips for managing your inner critic.Production team: Christian Gilliam, Sonja Tomašković, Ruth Laing.

Steve Joy from the Researcher Development team interviews Dr Geraint Wyn Story from Cambridge Training Associates about the role of creativity in research work. Geraint explains that creativity is not a gift possessed only by a few but, rather, a skill which anyone can learn and practise.Production team: Christian Gilliam, Sonja Tomašković, Ruth Laing.

We all need to have tricky but important conversations sometimes, especially at work. In this episode, Rach Maggs, a consultant specialising in interpersonal communication, talks to Steve Joy from the Researcher Development team about a particular process of preparing for, and having, crucial conversations.Production team: Christian Gilliam, Sonja Tomašković, Ruth Laing.

Journalist, broadcaster, writer, trainer and blogger Simon Hall joins Steve Joy from the Researcher Development team to share some top tips for successful blogging, so that you can share your research with a wide audience.Production team: Christian Gilliam, Sonja Tomašković, Ruth Laing.

In our fifth and final episode on 'How to raise your profile online', Sam Byers and Steve Cross take a look at membership and organisation of online communities.Production team: Christian Gilliam, Sonja Tomašković, Ruth Laing.

In our fourth episode on 'How to raise your profile online', Sam Byers and Steve Cross discuss how we can take everything we've learnt about meeting or interviewing face-to-face and adapt to a world where interviews are held online.Production team: Christian Gilliam, Sonja Tomašković, Ruth Laing.

In our third episode on ‘How to raise your profile online’, Sam Byers and Steve Cross discuss how to get your ideas 'out and about' in a written form, looking at blogs, magazines and opinion pieces.Production team: Christian Gilliam, Sonja Tomašković, Ruth Laing.