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meet the players
Before setting up mpi, Tim Grout-Smith and Lily Poberezhska worked for the BBC as journalists, programme makers and trainers. Read more about us and find our CVs on the About Us page.
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WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING
2009 has been a very successful and satisfying year for us, and we’d like to wish all our clients and friends a wonderful Christmas and a great 2010!
Last year we gave our media training course at two of the top six universities in the world, according to the Times Higher Education QS World University Rankings 2009 - University College London and Oxford University. UCL were so impressed they asked us back for two more sessions, and they are just two of twenty one British universities we have trained at in the past twenty months.
2010 began with a challenging assignment at Birmingham University, where we trained a multi-disciplinary group who are learning to make short films for the web in how to present their research to the general public. There were twenty-six trainees, with subjects ranging from early modern gardening to quantum computing and from multi-stakeholder development initiatives to cancer research. Over eighty per cent of the Birmingham trainees rated our workshop as "Excellent" and you can see some of their comments in feedback.
We have been justifying the ‘international’ label with our work in Ukraine, where we not only taught again at the country’s leading independent university, Kyiv Mohyla Academy, but finished a highly successful project for the British embassy, training the country’s government communicators. At the Academy we taught a week-long module “News Writing for the Web” for professional journalists attending the Digital Future of Journalism one year course—we were in fact asked to start the course off, and gave an inaugural presentation to an invited audience of Kiev media figures on “Surviving the Internet; Strategies of the Traditional Media” which was well received by an audience facing many of the same challenges!
Our British Embassy project “Tools for Open Government” helped Ukrainian civil servants to develop a citizen-centric approach to public communication, based on the experience of their UK colleagues. At the final event of the project in early December the Communications Department of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers resolved to make this approach central to the concept of the new Government Communications Bill. The Embassy were so pleased with the impact of the project they have recommended it to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as an example of best practice.
We have several new projects under consideration in Ukraine, including participating in an ambitious EU project to support women and children’s rights.
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AMONG OUR CLIENTS
International Donors: The World Bank, the European Commission, the British government (DFID, FCO), USAID, OSCE
International organisations: United Nations (WHO, IAEA, UNDP), Transparency International, Media Diversity Institute
Universities (UK): Kent, Brunel, Essex, Winchester, St George's, University of London, Oxford, King's College, University of London, Queen Mary's, University of London, University College London, Exeter, Plymouth, Bradford, Kingston, Glamorgan, Sussex, Bangor, Brighton, Hertfordshire, Warwick, Oxford Brookes, Portsmouth, Birmingham, Loughborough (Ukraine): Kyiv-Mohyla Academy; (Georgia): The Caucasus School of Journalism
Companies: Ogilvy PR (Brussels), ERTICO (EU), TADS Ltd(UK), Linden Consulting (UK), Ikon-Institute(Germany), STB TV Channel (Ukraine), Media Friendly (UK)
     
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WHAT WE OFFER
Training in:
- Dealing with the media
- Message development
- Communication and presentation skills
- Crisis communications
- Basic journalism
- Environmental journalism
- Radio journalism
- Reporting diversity
Editing of:
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newsletters
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strategy papers
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research documents
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studies
Training of Trainers
Project consultancy in:
- Awareness raising
- Public Relations
- Media Outreach
- Development of independent media
- Project design and implementation
Radio reporting and programme making
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feedback
"I was very impressed that the trainers had taken the trouble to tailor the content precisely to each person's interests. It made the exercises very real"
Jill Francis, History PhD Candidate, Birmingham University
"The trainers were very knowledgeable and have put a lot of work into researching our areas in order to ask informed questions. I thoroughly enjoyed the day, and I think what I have learned will be very useful"
Jane Upton, post doctoral researcher, Sports and Exercise Science, Birmingham University
"Very good preparation with understanding and knowledge of our specific subjects. Very impressed"
Dr Chrissie Fenske, Division Manager, St George's, University of London
"Very worthwhile and worth spending a day of my time-a very good number of tips picked up"
Dr Prysor Williams, Lecturer, Environment and Natural Resources, University of Bangor
“I found the intense, "hands-on", no nonsense training invaluable and feel now more prepared to be able to be interviewed by media. Also, the unflagging work until the very end of the day I found inspiring!”
Margie Louws, PhD candidate, University of Bradford
“Thank you very much for all your hard work, especially in creating individually-tailored questions. Your expertise shone through!”
Stella Moss, History Lecturer, Oxford University
"This was the best training I've had all year"
Julia Zakharova, PhD Candidate, Loughborough University
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