Grainne Faller

I help researchers and academics with their communication and public engagement skills. I set up FH Media Consulting with fellow Irish Times journalist Louise Holden to bridge the communication gap between researchers and the public across all disciplines.We provide media training courses to academics and researchers. In addition to our training, we provide media strategy advice and consultancy to higher education and research institutes. We believe that the public has a right and an appetite to understand what goes on in our universities and research institutes. It is our experience that those working in research and scholarship want to reach out but do not always have the confidence or the language to talk to lay audiencesWe want to enrich the public conversation by bringing experts into discussions across a range of topics from science to society to arts and ethics. Louise and I have helped hundreds of researchers to communicate what they do to the public.Through targeted training and media strategy, we help researchers, academics and institutions to connect with a range of audiences; businesses, policy makers taxpayers, school children and the public at large.