However good research is, if it stays in the lab or on a hard drive somewhere, isn't going to help anyone and of course the reality is that researchers do literally get points for how many people see their publications. But how do you do that? How do break out of the world of peer reviewed journals and
This episode is an interview with Rory Cellan Jones who was the BBC's tech editor so he's been explaining complicated stories to mainstream audiences - by which I mean non-technical audience =s - for forty years. Now he's freelance, publishing a weekly newsletter and tweeting about tech, and particularly health tech. He's also been diagnosed with Parkinson's so unsurprisingly he has a particular interest in its treatment.
I met him recently at a conference organised by Health Data Research UK and sat down with him to pick his brains about the care and feeding of journalists - how researchers can get journalists' attention, how to explain complicated, nuanced ideas to journalists, and whether being a patient has given him a new perspective.
Rory's Twitter is @ruskin147. He's the author of a book about social media use, 'Always On’ and his newsletter is at https://rorycellanjones.substack.com
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