SciComm Impact Week
Five days that transform how scientists and researchers communicate with non-expert audiences
A SciComm Impact Week is a 5-day, practice-based intensive for doctoral candidates and early-career researchers who need to explain their research clearly, confidently, and convincingly to non-expert audiences.
Participants work in interdisciplinary cohorts, receive expert coaching, and apply their skills in a live public showcase event.
Designed for universities, graduate schools, research institutes, and research consortia.
What to expect
Applied learning. Cross-disciplinary cohorts. An opportunity to present in English. Transferable skills.
Quick facts & figures
Format: 5 consecutive days (in-person or hybrid)
Typical group size: 18–24 researchers
Outcome: A public showcase + transferable communication skills
Language: English
Want to run this in your local language? Learn more below →
What participants gain
After Impact Week, researchers can:
- Explain complex research clearly to non-specialist audiences
- Structure short talks with a strong central message
- Give and receive constructive feedback
- Collaborate across disciplines and cultures
- Present with confidence under time pressure
- Adapt their communication for public, policy, and academic contexts
And research organisations benefit too: a visible public engagement outcome, strengthened research communication capacity, and early-career researchers who embed these skills across your graduate community.
What makes Impact Week different
This is not a lecture series.
Impact Week is built around practice, feedback, and iteration.
Researchers do the work of communication every day, supported by expert facilitators and a focused peer cohort. The week-long intensive culminates in a live public-facing event. It’s an applied form of science communication training that equips graduate-level and early-career researchers in Europe and elsewhere with skills that will benefit them throughout their careers.
Delivery options and investment
Deliver within your institution, or collaborate with 2-3 regional partners and offer a multi-cultural, interdisciplinary programme, sharing costs and responsibilities.
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What participants and organisers say
Before this Impact Week, I don’t think I had ever really thought about how differently I have to communicate with public audiences. I’ve had to change my assumptions about what people know, even fellow scientists, and I think that this will help me talk about my work more clearly in the future.
— Lorenzo, Italy
I want to thank you again for taking so much time with us, constantly cheering us on, and helping us go through our talks again, and again, and again.
— Grigor, Austria
I didn’t really know what to expect when I signed up for this, and I have continually been surprised. I loved that we spent time getting to know each other’s names, learning how to work as a team, before we started on the learning. I loved that you constantly asked how we were doing and adapted when we gave you feedback. I loved the 3MT event, and how we were all supporting each other. I am proud to have taken part in this and will recommend it to my students.
— Jubair, Spain
All MA students should do this. We are always giving presentations but we never have time to really think about what we want to say and why it matters. I feel that I’m a better presenter, and that I am more capable of talking about my research outside of my research group.
— Angela, Germany
This has been an experience of a lifetime. The combination of workshops, and small group coaching, and all the input from fellow researchers, has made me even more excited about the work that I am doing, and that it has value in the wider world, even though my research is fundamental.
— Véronique, France
Working with Suzanne has been inspiring. She supported and challenged us in equal measure, and I am much more confident in myself and my research as a result. Thank you, Suzanne, for all the coaching, conversations, and “kicks up the bottom”!
— Ekaterina, Spain
Looking to build internal capacity to run a SciComm Impact Week in your local language?
We deliver SciComm Impact Weeks in English, which supports internationalisation and gives researchers valuable experience communicating in English.
But for most of our researchers in Europe, English is not their native language. And when they want to engage local audiences in their home towns, they need to be able to talk about complex topics in local languages.
That’s why we offer a Train-the-Trainer programme that includes facilitator training, our complete toolkit, and ongoing community support, so that your faculty and staff can run our programme, in your institution, in your own language.
Interested in bringing a SciComm Impact Week to your research organisation, university, or BIP (blended intensive programme)?
We’d be happy to send you more information and a no-obligation proposal.
Use the form to tell us more about what you are thinking or what you need from us at this point, or book a discovery call and we can talk through your needs.
