Elaine Vickers, PhD, from Science Communicated Ltd., Manchester, UK, delivers educational session year on year at the NCRI conference. Here, Dr Vickers highlights the main objectives of these sessions, describing her involvement in equipping non-scientists in attendance with the background knowledge needed to take the most out of the sessions at NCRI. This video was recorded at the 2018 National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference, held in Glasgow, UK.