Big ideas in small packages: videos convey complex messages

A project to make academic research more readily accessible to the public has led to the creation of a collection of short videos that feature archaeological themes.In just four minutes, and using an immediately engaging format, each video encapsulates an aspect of the original work undertaken by a Cambridge PhD student or postdoctoral researcher.

 Three videos have so far been produced and a fourth will appear shortly.

The published videos (all on YouTube) are: Where Did Humans Go During the Last Ice Age?, which features the research of Dr V Pia Spry-Marques; What Do Bones Say About Belief? (Rosalind Wallduck); and What Diet Can Tell Us About Social Relationships (Lauren Cadwallader).  The forthcoming video (based on the work of Dr Isla Fay) will look at the digitisation of images at the Whipple Museum.

The aim of the Digital Research Video Project is to help early career researchers communicate their work simply and effectively. The project, which is supported by the Social Media Knowledge Exchange (SMKE), is run by Dr Suzanne Pilaar Birch, who was a PhD student and Gates Scholar at Cambridge and is now at Brown University in the USA.

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Image:  Illustration by Sarah Castor-Perry for 'Where Did Humans Go During the Last Ice Age?'

Credit: Digital Research Video Project


Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge


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