BIG Event 2024: resources and content from selected sessions

Find below the resources from some of the BIG Event sessions. If you were a 2024 BIG Event Speaker and have resources to share from your session(s), get in touch and we'll add them below. 

Sharing the low hanging fruit

Every method of communication comes with a bunch of tips and tricks that seem obvious in hindsight and allow us to achieve better results with minimal effort. This session will bring together expertise from attendees to share those little game-changers that make everything better. From hidden features in PowerPoint to working with stage equipment or posting on social media, there are tonnes of simple things that could take years to figure out on your own but which could be explained to you in just a few minutes. Our goal is to do the latter!

Resources

Robin Hayward, University of Leeds

Em Truman; National Space Centre
Sarah Cosgriff, Science Communicator and Trainer

What does the UN think everyone should learn?

UNESCO have produced a new Recommendation on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainable Development. This is an international document about what the most important things to learn are to give our planet a brighter future. This session aims to start a lively discussion about what we think are the most important things to learn right now, find out more about the UNESCO Recommendation and consider how we can support that in the work we do, and maybe make our own individual pledges for how we’re going to make the world a better place by learning or teaching something new. 

Resources

Naomi Foster, North Pennines National Landscape and UNESCO Global Geopark

A Selection of Poems by Rowena Fletcher-Wood

An Ode to Big