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Booking a talk.
I speak to schools, societies, festivals and university departments. The practical details are set out below; do ask if there is anything else you need to know.
Logistics
- BasedEastbourne, East Sussex
- TravelUK-wide
- RemoteYes, for all but the workshop
- I bringLaptop, projector, screen, speakers, extension lead
- You provideA power socket
- AudioMy own speakers
- Lead timeFour weeks is comfortable
- At a pushTen days
- FeeNegotiable
- State schoolsNo fee
- Press packBio, headshot, abstracts; on request
Get in touch
Tell me three things and I can answer in one reply:
- Who the audience is, and roughly how many
- The room, and how long the slot is
- The date, or the range you are working within
I will tell you which of the three fits; or, if none of them does, I am happy to write you a new one.
On the day
What happens either side of the talk.
Most of the value of a visiting speaker is in the twenty minutes afterwards, so it is worth planning for.
Before
I would rather arrive thirty minutes early and test the projector than discover the adapter problem in front of the audience. If there is a class I could sit in on, I usually will.
Questions
Ten minutes minimum, fifteen if the audience is students. I will take questions I cannot answer and say so, which is the more useful lesson anyway.
Afterwards
Every talk ends with a short web address on the last slide. It leads to the slides, the further reading and a way of getting in touch.