Let’s establish your research organisation as a world leader.

Hi, I’m Chris 👋 I’m on a mission to help incredible research teams communicate effectively — with funders, collaborators, the public, and each other — in order to maximise their work’s real world impact.

Comms and engagement designed to:

✓ Secure grant, industry, and philanthropic funding.

✓ Build strong partnerships.

✓ Recruit and retain the best talent.

“Chris helped me break a Cat 1 funding drought! He helped us communicate the benefit of our work to society, which was crucial in finally securing an ARC Discovery grant.”

Prof. Phillip Dawson
Co-Director, Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning

“Thank you for challenging us, for understanding our vision, and for putting it into a form that others can understand.”

Prof. Wendy Chapman
Director, Centre for Digital Transformation of Health

“Chris helped me focus on what the audience needs and how they need to hear it. He delivered a high-quality product that we'll be using for years to come.”

A/Prof. Nikki Moodie
Deputy Director, Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity

Is the future of your research centre keeping you up at night?

✖ Concerned about your centre’s long-term financial future?

✖ Struggling to attract the right talent, collaborators, and partners?

✖ Frustrated by your researchers pulling in different directions and not always seeing the bigger picture?

✖ Questioning the return on investment from current engagement and comms efforts?

✖ Sick of seeing comms from your centre that either don't get the research right or alienate a general audience?

Let’s make sure your key stakeholders understand your organisation’s unique value.

I’ll work with your organisation’s leadership and ops team to develop a holistic approach to engagement and comms that’s custom fit for your team.

In other words, we’ll make sure everyone’s on the same page and communicating in a way that resonates with your key stakeholders.

How can we work together?

Get started by booking a free initial call or emailing me at pahlowconsulting@gmail.com. We’ll unpack your team’s key goals and stakeholders, and then discuss whether we might be a good fit to work together and what that work might look like.

Based on my experience with other clients, this might include —

  • Developing an engagement and comms strategy that goes hand in hand with your organisational strategy.

  • Helping you transform your organisational strategy from an insightful but lengthy document that no one ever reads, into a clear and concise guiding policy that keeps your team and affiliates on the same page.

  • Defining key messages that capture your centre’s mission and unique value proposition, and are designed to maximise team alignment and inform all future engagement/comms efforts.

  • Revitalising your comms team with processes, guidelines, training, and resources designed to empower effective engagement/comms efforts across your entire centre.

  • Coaching your centre’s key team members to maximise their engagement/comms efforts.

  • Advisory oversight of the implementation of your engagement/comms strategy, the development of your comms team, and/or the creation of key media projects.

Not your average consultant.

Hi, I’m Chris Pahlow.

I don't wear a suit and tie like most consultants.

I also work in a way that most consultants can't.

My user-centred approach draws on my extensive experience in both creative communications and academia.

Because why shouldn't your groundbreaking research generate as much excitement as the latest Netflix series?

My practice combines —

More than 10 years experience working as consultant and educator for The University of Melbourne, Monash University, Swinburne University, Deakin University, and countless affiliates ranging from the Royal Melbourne Hospital to the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity...

with

More than 15 years creating award winning media that's played in cinemas, international television, and major streaming platforms, in collaboration with organisations like the BBC, Village Roadshow, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Book in a call to see if we’re a good fit to work together.