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The Grey Lit Café

Anthony Haynes

74 episodes

1 month ago

Spineless Wonders is the splendid title for a splendid exhibition at the University of London's Senate House Library - an exhibition of unbound material in myriad formats, spanning five hundred years of printing. This episode reviews the exhibition with its three curators: Tansy Barton (Academic Librarian)Christos Fotelis (Conservator)Leila Kassir (Academic Librarian)We consider how the exhibition came about, how exhibits were selected, what the aim of the exhibition is, and which exhibits co...

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Spineless Wonders is the splendid title for a splendid exhibition at the University of London's Senate House Library - an exhibition of unbound material in myriad formats, spanning five hundred years of printing. This episode reviews the exhibition with its three curators: Tansy Barton (Academic Librarian)Christos Fotelis (Conservator)Leila Kassir (Academic Librarian)We consider how the exhibition came about, how exhibits were selected, what the aim of the exhibition is, and which exhibits co...

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The Grey Lit Café

Spineless Wonders: the power of print unbound

Spineless Wonders is the splendid title for a splendid exhibition at the University of London's Senate House Library - an exhibition of unbound material in myriad formats, spanning five hundred years of printing. This episode reviews the exhibition with its three curators: Tansy Barton (Academic Librarian)Christos Fotelis (Conservator)Leila Kassir (Academic Librarian)We consider how the exhibition came about, how exhibits were selected, what the aim of the exhibition is, and which exhibits co...

2 months ago

27 minutes

The Grey Lit Café

Effective design features on posters (GM1 comms)

If you're studying on the University of Cambridge's Multidisciplinary Design course, this episode is for you. The episode focuses on the visual aspects of advice. It seeks to provide pragmatic recommendations that will make a marked difference to the communicative effectiveness of your poster presentation. Contents 00:00 Navigation01:56 Visual aspects of text04:25 Contrast07:21 Alignment09:13 Naming10:29 Further resourceFurther Resources Robin Williams, The non-designer’s design book, 4...

5 months ago

12 minutes

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Physical aspects of poster presentations (GM1 comms)

If you're studying on the University of Cambridge's Multidisciplinary Design course, this episode is for you. The episode focuses on the (quite radical) implications of the context of poster displayspectators' behaviouraspects of inclusive practice.These considerations will help you to optimise the communicative effectiveness of your poster presentation. Contents 00:00 Key issues03:29 Allocation of space on the poster04:43 Non-linear sequencing07:40 InclusivenessCredit: The music, from ...

5 months ago

11 minutes

The Grey Lit Café

Tactics: group presentations and Q&A (Comms for GM1)

If you're a student on the University of Cambridge's Multidisciplinary Design course (GM1), this episode is for you. Indeed, it focuses on considerations specific to the course, based on observations from previous cohorts' presentations. This is the third of three episodes on presentations. There is a parallel set of episodes on poster presentations. Contents 00:00 Group prsentations01:35 Use of space03:30 Q & A09:14 Further resourcesLink The protocol, 'Giving a presentation', is availabl...

5 months ago

11 minutes

The Grey Lit Café

What makes a good presentation (Comms for GM1)

If you're a student on the University of Cambridge's Multidisciplinary Design course (GM1), this episode has been created for you. The episode stems from consideration of the big pitfalls presenters often fall into and provides advice on how to avoid them. Simply by avoiding the pitfalls, you can make your presentation outstandingly good. Contents 00.00 'Presentation' and 'slides' aren't synonyms02:37 Where to look and why08:06 Creating flow10:18 Getting the timing rightFurther listening This...

5 months ago

16 minutes

The Grey Lit Café

Effective communication using slides (Comms for GM1)

If you're a student on the University of Cambridge's Multidisciplinary Design course (GM1), this episode is for you. The episode stems from consideration of the pitfalls presenters fall into concerning use of slides. Simply by avoiding these pitfalls, you can make your presentation outstandingly communicative. This is the second of three episodes on presentations. There is a parallel set of episodes on poster presentations. Contents 00:00 Key issues04:37 Audience engagement07:10 The three fun...

5 months ago

17 minutes

The Grey Lit Café

How to add value to your poster (Comms for GM1)

If you’re a student on the Multidisciplinary Design course (GM1), this episode has been created for you. Understandably, students tasked with preparing a poster presentation tend to assume that it’s all about the poster itself. Of course, the poster’s the primary component of a poster presentation. But there’s more to poster presentation than that. This episode explains the why and the how concerning two further components of poster presentations. Attending to all three comp...

5 months ago

11 minutes

The Grey Lit Café

Podcasting on grey literature: what have we done? whither will we go?

"Three years have passed; five summers, with the length/ Of five long winters!" (as William Wordsworth wrote). This episode was recorded to mark the third anniversary of The Grey Lit Café's first episode ('Welcome to the Grey Lit Café') and the conclusion of our seventh season. We briefly review the season in the context of our developing conception of how best to discuss grey literature and we look ahead to the next season, which promises a novel focus. Further listening We hope you f...

7 months ago

6 minutes

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Dissertations as an interface between industry and academia, with Joseph Gibbons

A key role of grey literature is to provide an interface between industry and academic research. In this episode, we continue our focus on innovation in grey literature by interviewing Dr Joseph Gibbons, Principal Technical Advisor at Natural Power Ireland. Joseph outlines a scheme he established to enable doctoral students to spend time in industry, working on research projects that formed the basis of their dissertations. Joseph explains: what the scheme entailsits rationalehow it was imple...

8 months ago

48 minutes

The Grey Lit Café

Podcasting as a pedagogical tool, with James Austin

Anthony Haynes writes: A persistent theme on The Grey Lit Café is the role of grey literature genres in higher education. We've published episodes on abstracts, dissertations, essays, online lectures, posters, and slide decks. In this episode, we take up a challenge from our recent episodes on essays: what alternatives - when it comes to expository and discursive communication - are there to essays? Here, in the second of two interviews, Dr James Austin (University of Connecticut) exp...

8 months ago

34 minutes

The Grey Lit Café

Slide decks: their developmental use, with James Austin

Anthony Haynes writes: A persistent theme on The Grey Lit Café is the role of grey literature genres in higher education. We've published episodes on abstracts, dissertations, essays, online lectures, and posters. In this episode we take up a challenge from our recent episodes on essays: what alternatives - when it comes to expository and discursive communication - are there to essays? Here, in the first of two interviews, Dr James Austin (University of Connecticut) explains how his ped...

9 months ago

49 minutes

The Grey Lit Café

If you work in comms, you're used to clients (internal or external) announcing, "We need a poster!" You have to laugh. Further listening We hope you found this episode rewarding. If so, you might find the following of particular interest: The games we play in science and research communicationDon't fall in love with your work, with Sabuhi EssaBefore Spotify: the remarkable story of chautauquasCredits Audio production and editing: Anthony HaynesMusic: from Handel's Water Music, courtesy of ...

9 months ago

2 minutes

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Essays revisited: How effective are essays as a genre of student writing?

Anthony Haynes writes: In our previous episode, How effective are essays as an academic genre?, we examined essays specifically as a tool for assessment in academic contexts. In this episode we return to the genre of essays but consider their use on courses outside examinations. Engy Moussa and I debate the strengths and weaknesses of the genre - and try to remain polite without holding back on our disagreements! Further listening We hope you found this episode rewarding. If so, you might...

1 year ago

50 minutes

The Grey Lit Café

How effective are essays as an academic genre? The case of examinations

Anthony Haynes writes: On The Grey Lit Café we frequently focus on specific genres.* In this episode, we focus on the genre of essays. In particular, we discuss the use of essays in examinations. Engy Moussa (University of Cambridge) and I debate: the strengths and weaknesses of essays as an assessment toolmultiple ways to help students improve the quality of their essays *Examples include abstracts, blogs, book proposals, dissertations, emails, funding proposals, letters, online lectu...

1 year ago

44 minutes

The Grey Lit Café

Grey literature aggregation: Toby Green on Policy Commons

Policy Commons is on a mission to make grey literature - especially in the form of reports, more discoverable and accessible. Its content platform, Coherent Digital, hosts over 12 million documents - and the number is growing rapidly. Who better to discuss this massive initiative than Toby Green, Founder and Publisher of Policy Commons? In this episode, Toby explains what Policy Commons is, what it exists for, where it's going next, and, crucially, the benefits that it provides to stakeholde...

1 year ago

29 minutes

The Grey Lit Café

Quality infrastructure and productivity: on protocols

Anthony Haynes is the author and publisher of an extensive series of Writing Protocols. In this episode, Engy Moussa interviews Anthony on how to produce protocols in order to get things done - and get them done well. In the process, they discuss such questions as: What is a protocol?How to compose protocolsHow are they used and what is their rationale?What is the relationship between protocols and learning?Further listening We hope you found this episode rewarding. If so, you might find th...

1 year ago

13 minutes

The Grey Lit Café

The art of the newsletter: lessons from the reader's perspective

Anthony Haynes writes: In this, our latest genre-based, episode, Engy Moussa and I explore newsletters - primarily from the perspective of the reader. We range widely, exploring questions concerning quantity, spatial design, schedules, the reading journey, distinction, and offputting features. And we review our favorite examples, asking what can be learned from them about the art of the newsletter. And, finally, we consider the benefits to writers of contributing to newsletters. Links...

1 year ago

39 minutes

The Grey Lit Café

Key insights on research communications, with Rob Johnson

Anthony Haynes writes: It was a treat for this episode to be able to interview Rob Johnson, founder and Managing Director of Research Consulting Ltd. RC is a long-established organisation dedicated to improving the effectiveness and impact of research and scholarly communication. Rob and his colleagues have worked on a vast range of projects with a variety of stakeholders, including funding agencies, universities, learned societies, and, increasingly, publishers. This wide-ranging interview...

1 year ago

33 minutes

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Before Spotify: the remarkable story of chautauquas

One question we explore on this podcast is that of antecedents: what came before podcasts? This episode tells the wonderfully rich history of chautauquas - an enterprising means of bringing entertainment and informal education to small-town America. Chautauquas can be thought of as a kind of predigital Spotify. Reference James R. Schultz, The romance of small-town chautauquas (Univ. of Missouri Press, 2002) Further listening If you enjoyed listening to this episode, you might particula...

1 year ago

10 minutes

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How to define grey literature? The implication of letters

Anthony Haynes writes: This episode is the third of our series on the relationship between letters and grey literature. In the first, we made the case, using the case of the correspondence of communications theorist I.A. Richards, for considering letters as a form of grey literature. In the second, using the case of correspondence between George Lyttleton and Rupert Hart-Davis, we explore the idea of letters as an antecedent of podcasts. Now we consider what implications the idea of ...

1 year ago

34 minutes