How to launch a food startup
Food vans, street stalls, dining clubs and pop-ups create your own successful eatery with help from the expertsThe recent explosion in food vans, dining clubs and pop-up restaurants shows the culinary...
View ArticleSocial media for journalists with Shiv Malik
Make the most of open journalism with this essential primer in finding, investigating and reporting stories with social mediaOnline communities have created vast global reserves of specialised...
View ArticleCopywriting: A two-day bootcamp
How to write commercial copy that's engaging, effective and whisper it sells more stuffWe can't legally offer courses in bribery and blackmail, but we can teach you the next best way to get your point...
View ArticleFeature writing
Learn both the mechanics of feature journalism from pitching to editing and the art of writing a great pieceLearn how to find, pitch and produce eye-catching, insightful and memorable stories worthy of...
View ArticleGetting creative work done with Oliver Burkeman
The ultimate creative vaccination against procrastinationCreative work requires the kind of deep focus it's hard to schedule around other commitments. And busyness, these days, is getting out of hand:...
View ArticleData visualisation for journalists, designers and marketers
Discover how infographics can make compelling stories out of raw dataA good infographic is the picture that's worth ten thousand words, capable of exploding preconceptions or making instant sense of...
View ArticleWriting popular science
Learn how to condense the mysteries of the universe into a gripping page-turnerPopular science books have never been so popular. Subjects from neurology to quantum entanglement have captured the public...
View ArticleHow to use grammar
Become a grammar grandmaster with senior Guardian editor David MarshGrammar can be a daunting subject, full of obscure and baffling rules and riddled with pitfalls for the unwary linguist. But believe...
View ArticleIntroduction to copywriting
How to make your writing more excitingWe can't legally offer courses in bribery and blackmail, but we can teach you the next best way to get your point across. This introductory course in copywriting...
View ArticleIntroduction to data visualisation
Take your first steps to conquer complex data and create clear and elegant infographics with this evening overviewWe also run a full day course on data visualisation, for details please click...
View ArticleHow to write a memoir
Learn how to make the truth more compelling than fictionThe memoir is one of the best-selling and fastest-evolving literary genres. From prize-winning creative non-fiction like Dave Eggers A...
View ArticleTracing the history of your house with Dr Nick Barratt
A beginner's guide to unlocking the secrets of the bricks and mortar of your homeA conversation-starting history can add thousands onto the value of your house, but digging it up is a laborious and...
View ArticleHow to start a video production company
Set up your own studio and start creating, and selling, content without breaking the bankDemand for video production services has never been higher, with an endless array of TV channels, YouTube...
View ArticleAn introduction to making infographics
Learn more about the biggest revolution in presentations since the projectorWhether you're working on a presentation, a website or teaching materials, nothing tells a complex story faster than an...
View ArticleData visualisation for researchers
Make your data come to life through powerful infographicsResearchers are increasingly being asked to visualise their data. While this used to mean bar charts and line graphs, there's now a growing need...
View ArticleAn introduction to interactive data visualisation
Get to grips with the art of interactive data storytellingThere is more and more data available to us than ever. When confronted with so much information, businesses and organisations are increasingly...
View ArticleData visualisation for designers
Enhance your design skills, and get better results from working with researchers and analystsDesigners are increasingly being asked to work with data. Businesses and organisations have more data than...
View ArticleHow to get ahead in the music business
What you need to know to get you started in the music industryMusic is big business worth £3.8 billion a year in the UK alone. But things are changing rapidly as the major labels modernise, digital...
View ArticlePitching your book
Get your work noticed by agents, publishers and readersSo you've almost finished your novel. Congratulations now comes the hard part. Finding the right agent, and persuading them to read your work, is...
View ArticleHow to be a citizen journalist with Brown Moses
Eliot Higgins, of renowned blog Brown Moses, shows you how to use social media to find major stories from around the worldCitizen journalists are outperforming the mainstream media, breaking new ground...
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