Getting the word out

Getting the Word Out

This practical session offers postgraduate students skills development in pitching research stories beyond academia using real-life case studies. Session panellists will outline effective means by which postgraduates can communicate their research to a public audience.

Panellists include:

Broadcasting is Sharon Greenock's second career, her first was as a Mental Health Nurse. Sharon says her two careers are actually closely related, both are about people and their stories. Sharon has been with ABC Local Radio in Perth on and off for almost 10 years producing every program at one time or another, and as Presenter of Early Mornings, Weekend. She has produced a Radio National radio documentary about her volunteer trip to a psychiatric facility in India and worked as a journalist at Aboriginal Education in WA.  Currently she is the Media Coordinator of Relationships Australia WA, and works freelance as a broadcaster.

Clive Newman has worked with Fremantle Press in a number of capacities since foundation of the publishing house in the mid 1970s.  He currently holds the position of Manager of Sales and Marketing/Rights and Permissions, working in a team of four to devise and implement national and regional promotional campaigns for the Fremantle list. Clive was awarded the George Robertson Award for contribution to the industry by the Australian Publishers' Association in 2010.

Cathy O’Leary is Medical Editor of The West Australian, Perth’s daily newspaper. She has worked in the area of health reporting for more than 20 years and in that time has received numerous health and media awards for her work. She has a Bachelor of Arts (English) majoring in journalism, and has lectured and tutored in health journalism.

Moderated by Tammi Jonas, CAPA President.