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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. You will learn how to communicate your own philosophical research to a general audience and/or to professionals.

The goal of the course is twofold: firstly, each participant will learn how to think about their projects from an outside perspective and condense their own research project into a single, well defined and accessible idea. Secondly, participants learn how to present that idea in different forms of (media-)output, be it spoken, written or in the form of an interview.

At the start of the course, each participant is expected to have a project that they would like to communicate to the general public and/or a group of professionals. This project can already be finished or consist of work in progress (though preferably further developed than initial stages). This could be a dissertation, a dissertation chapter, or a journal article. Participants should also already have a basic idea of what organization, group, or event they want to reach out to.

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