Solo Session: Engage Wider Audiences with your PhD

Solo Session: Engage Wider Audiences with your PhD

From PhD Lounge by Luis Maia de Freitas

February 11, 2026 · 5 min · Season 2 · Episode 21

About this episode

This episode discusses how to engage wider audiences with PhD research through storytelling and accessible language.

Thank you for tuning in to PhD Lounge, you'll become a Doctor of Philosophy by immersing yourself into the latest topics of the PhD Universe Students and Graduates! PhD thesis don't leave the academic circle and are shared towards specialised audiences. But what if they can be presented to other type of audiences? In this late-night talk, I describe how you can share your research when following the code of plain and simple language, storytelling and strong hooks. Here's the breakdown: . Comp...

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Host: Luis Maia de Freitas

Topics covered

  • PhD research
  • audience engagement
  • storytelling
  • plain language
  • academic communication

Keywords

  • PhD
  • audience
  • research
  • communication
  • storytelling
  • plain language
  • academic

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