Communicating Research Across Disciplines

Enhancing the impact of research requires effective communication across disciplines. In today's scholarly environment, it is crucial for researchers to extend their reach and collaborate with colleagues from different fields.

This workshop aims to equip you with the basic skills to communicate your research in a clear, engaging, and accessible manner beyond your own specialization. By learning to present your work convincingly and persuasively, you will not only improve your own understanding of your topic, but also lay the foundation for fruitful collaborations across disciplines.

The intensive one-day workshop is designed to help you reflect critically on how to address the needs of audiences outside your field, to improve the necessary communication skills and begin to put them into practice. You will work together to develop clear, concise and powerful ways to convey the essence of your research to colleagues in other fields. We will reflect on specialism vs wider relevance, use quickfire drafting exercises to present an overview of your research, collaborate on editing, and work with constructive feedback from peers.

Requirements

• The workshop is aimed at researchers at various career stages (at the earliest advanced doctoral researchers with one year of experience). You are just starting to explore science communication, but already have your own research ready to communicate.
• Participants will be required to submit brief details of their research before the session.

HRA’s Project for Research Communication: This workshop is part of a larger research communication project which is funded by the Claussen-Simon-Stiftung. It can be credited to the basic module of the certificate in research communication.