Three events last week allowed FLEET members to develop valuable, transferable communications and outreach skills, as well as providing a chance for FLEET to strengthen links with other ARC Centres of Excellence.
Pitch training
A pitch training session for researchers from three ARC Centres introduced key communications concepts such as choosing the most effective lead, tailoring the pitch to the audience, presenting tips, and working with media. FLEET partnered with the ARC Centre for Exciton Science and the ARC Centre for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS) to source this key training.
Physics in the Pub
Physics in the PubFLEET’s Jared Cole (RMIT) and Carlos Kuhn (Swinburne) were among presenters stretching their public outreach muscles this month, experimenting with pub physics demonstrations on the quantum nature of time and string theory magic tricks, respectively. This fun, public event saw seven researchers take the stage, and was co-sponsored by the Australian Institute of Physics and four ARC Centres of Excellence: FLEET, the Centre for Exciton Science, the Centre for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) and the Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP).
Idea Factory
The annual Idea Factory collaboration between FLEET and the ARC Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS) combined pitch training with other key entrepreneurial and innovation skills development, drawing on CSIRO’s “ON” program.
Pitch training and Physics in the Pub were run with science communicator and trainer Dr Phil Dooley (philuponscience.com.au).
FLEET Research Fellow Carlos Kuhn explaining string theory with magic tricks at Physics in the Pub
FLEET CI Jared Cole explains the quantum nature of time and measurement, Physics in the Pub
Science communicator and trainer Phil Dooley explains the art of an effective pitch and presentation skills, training at Swinburne University of Technology
Training for innovation and entrepreneurship, Idea Factory QLD