Comms Club webinar recaps

You can watch the recordings of our monthly webinars to recap the useful bits or catch up on sessions you missed.

Recordings are just for Comms Club members so please don’t share them around.

You can sign up for future sessions to join us live.

Research for non-researchers

This session covers some of the basics of understanding research. Covering issues like the difference between correlation and causation, and how to pick appropriate research methods to answer research questions. Wel explore some of the basic principles of research, some of the common pitfalls in interpreting and using research data, and how to avoid them.

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How to do a quick comms plan that actually works

​What if there was a simple, quick, and (whisper it) fun way of creating comms plans that you could write on a white board or one side of A4, that would actually help your comms hit the mark?​In this session, we talk briefly about what a good comms plan needs to include. But more importantly, we work together through two examples, and actually create them during the session, using a super simple method.

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The governance of comms, the comms of governance

How does your #SUComms​ team relate to your Board of Trustees? Often, comms & campaigns are viewed through the prism of risk and exposure. Can we improve on that? This session looks at how a Board can better understand your comms team’s goals and purpose, how comms can feed into organisational strategy and long-term planning, how to explain comms to your Board, and how to explain Board to your members.

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