
February 12, 2025
Liz Dickinson, project manager and language editor, helps to advance InnoRenew CoE’s communications
I grew up in Ridgway, Pennsylvania (USA), which is beautiful small town inside the Allegheny National Forest. Today, I live in Kampel (Koper), Slovenia.
I studied psychology and journalism because I love reading, writing and understanding stories – fact and fiction.
I’m a public relations expert. In my old life, I used these skills as an event producer, writer, editor and marketing specialist in higher education administration. Now I apply them to advance InnoRenew CoE’s communications.
Nothing is typical. It could be drafting a proposal for a new communications channel, for example, creating and helping to launch IPBE, the institute’s open access journal. It could be editing a researcher’s funding proposal or journal submission. It could also be reviewing and revising web copy or other promotional collateral – events, reports, videos, newsletters, you name it – to assure clarity and brand consistency.
People. And words, of course. When the two come together, magic happens. I find this most often within the Communications Group working on marketing materials. But I also really enjoy this collaboration when I help researchers focus and tighten their proposals.
Communications, ironically. Improved internal communications across the institute will be a good project for 2022 🙂
Katherine Johnson, because she was a brilliant trailblazer for women – black women – in STEM. I had the privilege to meet her and write about her when she received an honorary doctorate from West Virginia University. From White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, she joined a group of similarly smart but overlooked women who, we now know, were critical to NASA’s success during the “space race”.
It is impossible to pick just one – I love books, music and art. Even those that disappoint me are worthwhile since someone took the time to put their creativity and love into the world.
It’s summertime, beach read season. I just finished “Last Summer at the Golden Hotel,” by Elyssa Friedland. If you like “Dirty Dancing” (who doesn’t?), it’s a fun read for a modern take on that theme.
Strunjan.
Traveling and seeing more of this big, beautiful world we live on.
Let. It. Go. (easier said than done)
I grew up in the forest, my father was a logger, my husband is a wood scientist – so for me, charm of wood is love.