Dr Jamie Gallagher
@jamiebgall.co.uk
Public Engagement trainer & consultant | #SciComm writer/presenter | @rspb.bsky.social & STFC advisor |🏳️🌈🏴
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9. Be willing to be wrong.
No one gets it perfect. Language and situations evolve and change. So listen to people who raise issues and don’t jump to be defensive or be so scared of making a mistake that you don’t use your voice.
Speak, but listen too.
No one gets it perfect. Language and situations evolve and change. So listen to people who raise issues and don’t jump to be defensive or be so scared of making a mistake that you don’t use your voice.
Speak, but listen too.
January 22, 2026 at 1:25 PM
9. Be willing to be wrong.
No one gets it perfect. Language and situations evolve and change. So listen to people who raise issues and don’t jump to be defensive or be so scared of making a mistake that you don’t use your voice.
Speak, but listen too.
No one gets it perfect. Language and situations evolve and change. So listen to people who raise issues and don’t jump to be defensive or be so scared of making a mistake that you don’t use your voice.
Speak, but listen too.
8. Signposting
Where should someone go if they need more support or info about the topic, give clear and specific information
Where should someone go if they need more support or info about the topic, give clear and specific information
January 22, 2026 at 1:25 PM
8. Signposting
Where should someone go if they need more support or info about the topic, give clear and specific information
Where should someone go if they need more support or info about the topic, give clear and specific information
7. Share your space
Allow space for the voice of people with experience to be heard alongside science/research
Allow space for the voice of people with experience to be heard alongside science/research
January 22, 2026 at 1:25 PM
7. Share your space
Allow space for the voice of people with experience to be heard alongside science/research
Allow space for the voice of people with experience to be heard alongside science/research
6. Code of conduct
Statement covering not only expected modes of behaviour and conduct but how breaches can be reported and enforced.
Also consider a scene and tone setting intro to the session
Statement covering not only expected modes of behaviour and conduct but how breaches can be reported and enforced.
Also consider a scene and tone setting intro to the session
January 22, 2026 at 1:25 PM
6. Code of conduct
Statement covering not only expected modes of behaviour and conduct but how breaches can be reported and enforced.
Also consider a scene and tone setting intro to the session
Statement covering not only expected modes of behaviour and conduct but how breaches can be reported and enforced.
Also consider a scene and tone setting intro to the session
5. Risk assess
What should event staff do or say if someone is upset or discloses something about themselves? Ensure the team have talked through and planned for these situations.
What should event staff do or say if someone is upset or discloses something about themselves? Ensure the team have talked through and planned for these situations.
January 22, 2026 at 1:25 PM
5. Risk assess
What should event staff do or say if someone is upset or discloses something about themselves? Ensure the team have talked through and planned for these situations.
What should event staff do or say if someone is upset or discloses something about themselves? Ensure the team have talked through and planned for these situations.
4. Assume lived experience
Work on the assumption that someone in your audience has lived/living experience of a topic and speak to the room in the way you would talk to that person.
Work on the assumption that someone in your audience has lived/living experience of a topic and speak to the room in the way you would talk to that person.
January 22, 2026 at 1:25 PM
4. Assume lived experience
Work on the assumption that someone in your audience has lived/living experience of a topic and speak to the room in the way you would talk to that person.
Work on the assumption that someone in your audience has lived/living experience of a topic and speak to the room in the way you would talk to that person.
3. Options
Don’t say “the next speaker will talk about xxxx, please welcome them to the stage”. Say “after the next break we will be discussing xxxx, if anyone would rather not participate we have an alternate space/talk for you”
Give a real chance to opt out.
Don’t say “the next speaker will talk about xxxx, please welcome them to the stage”. Say “after the next break we will be discussing xxxx, if anyone would rather not participate we have an alternate space/talk for you”
Give a real chance to opt out.
January 22, 2026 at 1:25 PM
3. Options
Don’t say “the next speaker will talk about xxxx, please welcome them to the stage”. Say “after the next break we will be discussing xxxx, if anyone would rather not participate we have an alternate space/talk for you”
Give a real chance to opt out.
Don’t say “the next speaker will talk about xxxx, please welcome them to the stage”. Say “after the next break we will be discussing xxxx, if anyone would rather not participate we have an alternate space/talk for you”
Give a real chance to opt out.
2. Advance warning
Make it clear what will be discussed during the session, highlighting areas which might be challenging in adverts and advance materials.
Make it clear what will be discussed during the session, highlighting areas which might be challenging in adverts and advance materials.
January 22, 2026 at 1:25 PM
2. Advance warning
Make it clear what will be discussed during the session, highlighting areas which might be challenging in adverts and advance materials.
Make it clear what will be discussed during the session, highlighting areas which might be challenging in adverts and advance materials.
Been there the past 2 years but not this time. Maybe 27 or 28 though.
January 19, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Been there the past 2 years but not this time. Maybe 27 or 28 though.
The only part of the uk that never sees me is Cornwall. Everywhere else I get there eventually!
January 19, 2026 at 9:45 PM
The only part of the uk that never sees me is Cornwall. Everywhere else I get there eventually!
Never been in snowy season before. Was hight of summer. Unfortunatly I probably won’t see much outside the seminar room.
January 19, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Never been in snowy season before. Was hight of summer. Unfortunatly I probably won’t see much outside the seminar room.
Will take your word for it
January 19, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Will take your word for it