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How do you get an audience to hang on your every word, when conveying your research project to them? In this course, we set out to explore just that. This skills course teaches you to communicate your research to a general audience and to specific groups of professionals outside academic philosophy.

The course trains you to think about your research from an outside perspective, and to condense your project into concise, well defined and accessible ideas. You will learn how to present such ideas in different forms of (media-)output, be it spoken, written or in the form of an interview.

Participants are expected to have a specific project in mind that they will work on during the course. When applying to the course, include a proposal that answers the following questions. Which audience or profession do you want to reach? Which part of your research do you want to communicate to them? In what form or medium? What do you want to achieve with this?

Your project can be based on a dissertation, a dissertation chapter, or a journal article.

This course consists of six meetings, in which different aspects of valorization and public outreach are covered. What’s out there in terms of media outlets, platforms and forms of science communication? How do you get a foot in the door, and how do you make sure you are ready when you do? How can you convey your idea, and how can you make sure your message comes across in different media? Conveying ideas in a newspaper article is, after all, different from doing so in a lengthy lecture, radio interview or contribution to a kids show. During each of the meetings, there’s instruction and ample opportunity to work on your own project, practice and receive peer feedback and personal guidance from the instructors. You leave this course with a concrete product with which you can connect with whatever audience you wish to reach.

This course is offered by Radboud Reflects and the OZSW