Karen Shead

Biography

My role includes: - Raising the profile of research and celebrating successes such as awards, funding announcements and events by working with academics across the Faculty of Social Sciences to secure regional, national and international mainstream and social media coverage. I can help academics to raise their professional profile by: - Proactively promoting research project/paper and its findings to appropriate and relevant media outlets - Helping to provide reactive expert commentary for media outlets on the news stories of the day - Writing stories for our internal e-newsletter Essex Weekly and student and staff blogs - Writing and publishing content for our latest news webpages and social media platforms - Identifying opportunities to write for The Conversation and pitching ideas to its editors