The period of the fellowship will be one year (July 1-June 30). During that year, the fellows can use some or all of these services:
- Science communication training through a program like Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
- Assistance with their slides and presentations to better communicate their research
- Opportunity for public speaking coaching
- Mentorship by the Research Development Team, assistance with their CV, and given personalized help to find funding opportunities
- High quality portraits taken by UVA photographers for articles/applications
- Assistance creating a functional and attractive website (WordPress or otherwise)
- Social media and media training
- Assistance to write an article for The Conversation and/or press release for media
- Learn the paths to promote research stories in the news
- Fellows will receive individual attention by the VPR: one-on-one meetings with research development team, as well as meetings with communications members from VPR and their school to help learn how to promote their research