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It’s amazing how some things just seem to flow when you start up after a break.<\/p>\n
In July this year, I was approached to write some stories about innovative ongoing or completed work by researchers working with the Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation<\/a> at Charles Sturt University<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was a pleasure to collaborate with some really interesting early career researchers and research students to explain their fascinating work on a variety of topics. These include:<\/p>\n The impact of common herbicides on novel pasture legumes<\/a><\/p>\n The introduction of new dung beetles to southern Australia<\/a><\/p>\n Tailoring ewe management for different sheep enterprises<\/a><\/p>\n Are vegans and meat producers really worlds apart?<\/a> and<\/p>\n Preparing pig producers for disease \u2018invaders\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n These articles highlight how researchers with the Graham Centre address \u2018real world\u2019 problems for people, communities and agricultural enterprises across regional Australia.<\/p>\n Targeted readers include fellow researchers and research institutes, agribusiness professionals and farmers as well as rural journalists.<\/p>\n Talking to these talented people has highlighted the importance of answering that \u2018so what\u2019 question in research communication, discovering and relating that line that explains, \u2018This<\/u> is why you should take notice of my story!\u2019<\/p>\n These stories also provide examples of the \u20183Hs\u2019 \u2013 Head, Heart and Hip pocket \u2013 in helping develop the \u2018hook\u2019 needed to attract readers and journalists to a research story.<\/p>\n [Read more in What makes a good research story?<\/a>]<\/p>\n Taking a break from podcasts has also reminded me of the power of text for communicating research, and the associated images that, when combined with text, can tell a compelling story.<\/p>\n [Read more in It\u2019s in print, so it must be right \u2026 right?<\/a> and Seeing is believing<\/a>]<\/p>\n So, if you like what you read in the Spring 2021 edition of The Innovator<\/em><\/a> newsletter published by the Graham Centre, contact The Comms Doctor<\/a> at contact@thecommsdoctor.com.au<\/a> or @TheCommsDoctorAU on Twitter and Facebook, and we can discuss your next compelling research story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s amazing how some things just seem to flow when you start up after a break. In July this year, I was approached to write some stories about innovative ongoing or completed work by researchers working with the Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation at Charles Sturt University. It was a pleasure to collaborate with some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[16,21,23,11,8,12,15],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-work","tag-auscicomm","tag-charlessturtuniversity","tag-grahamcentre","tag-researchcommunication","tag-sciencecommunication","tag-tellastory","tag-universityresearch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecommsdoctor.com.au\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecommsdoctor.com.au\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecommsdoctor.com.au\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecommsdoctor.com.au\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecommsdoctor.com.au\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecommsdoctor.com.au\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/thecommsdoctor.com.au\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecommsdoctor.com.au\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecommsdoctor.com.au\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecommsdoctor.com.au\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}