In this session, Miheala Gruia will walk through important considerations for building a communications plan for your research. With concrete examples from participants she talks about how to drill down to the specifics of who you want to reach, when you want to reach them, and how you want to do it. Finally, she discusses potential risks and risk mitigation strategies for your communications, and ways to evaluate success.

Bio:
Mihaela Gruia is a social and data scientist passionate about the intersection between research, communication, and design. She is the founder and Director of Research Retold (www.researchretold.com), which helps academic researchers and evaluators make their findings digestible and able to be acted on. The visual summaries produced by Research Retold have been used by researchers to engage with policymakers, business leaders, industry experts, the general public, and the media.