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Taking place at the Exhibition Centre Liverpool on November 10, BRILLIANT will bring together more than 1,500 educators from across Northern England alongside leading EdTech companies, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) organisations, and industry innovators to explore how technology can transform teaching and learning.

Under the partnership, the �������� will provide support to cover the event, creating real-time social content, on-the-ground journalism and documentary material that amplifies BRILLIANT’s reach across digital and broadcast platforms.

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Professor Andy Miah, Chair in Science Communication & Future Media, at ��������, said: “For our students, BRILLIANT isn’t just an event to cover – it’s a living laboratory for what the future of education looks like. 

“They will arrive with cameras, microphones and the kind of digital fluency that educators at the festival are working to build in their own classrooms. That symmetry is exactly what makes this partnership so compelling.”

Students from across the University’s media, journalism, film and creative technology programmes will form a dedicated BRILLIANT Media Team, gaining professional experience in event coverage at scale. 

Lois Clark, Wildlife Conservation and Zoo Biology student,said: “I’ve always loved telling stories online. Whether its through wildlife content science communication or social media campaigns, I’m fascinated by the way digital platforms can bring people into conversations they might never have engaged with otherwise.”

“Being part of the BRILLIANT Media Team is an exciting opportunity to do exactly that. I’ll be helping capture the conversations, ideas and behind-the-scenes moments that make the festival special, creating content that allows people beyond the venue to experience the event as it happens."

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Reflecting a shared commitment to growing the community around education innovation in Northern England, the partnership aims to ensure that the conversations happening at BRILLIANT reach not only the educators in the room, but also the hundreds of thousands of teachers, school leaders and families across the region who stand to benefit from a more ambitious, technology-enabled education system.

Alexandra Dobson, another Wildlife Conservation student, said: “I believe that closing the gap between conservation and communication starts with education, and that media is one of the most powerful tools to make that happen. The natural world belongs to everyone yet so many people never truly connect with it, often simply because they’ve never been reached in the right way.”

“I am genuinely thrilled to be a part of the BRILLIANT Media Team – an opportunity to contribute to something so aligned with what I care about, while gaining real experience telling stories that can make a difference.”

Reaching beyond just logistical support, students will be embedded throughout the BRILLIANT programme – interviewing speakers, capturing reactions from the Classroom of NOW, producing behind-the-scenes content and building the kind of social narrative that extends the festival’s impact well beyond a single day in Liverpool.

Professor Miah added: “Putting our students in the room full of people building the future – not as observers, but as the media team telling its story – is exactly the kind of real-world education our programmes are built around. 

“By the end of the day, they will have produced content seen by thousands – that experience is irreplaceable.”

Martyn Collins, Festival Director of BRILLIANT, said: “BRILLIANT is about bringing education, technology and industry together in a way that feels immediate, ambitious and relevant to the world young people are entering. 

“Partnering with the �������� as our Official Media Partner gives us the opportunity to tell that story through the voices and creativity of students themselves. They will not just be documenting the festival, they will be helping us amplify its purpose, reaching educators, families, employers and communities across the North who all have a stake in the future of learning.”

Prof Miah wants to hear from lecturers who would like to bring students, or individual students or student groups who may want to get involved: a.miah@salford.ac.uk