Doctoral Schools

Impact and Research Communication skills

Cluster

Communication skills

Target group

Members of the Doctoral Schools a year or more into their PhD; early career researchers are also welcome.

Contents

This workshop is for postgraduates 1 year or more into their PhD, and is designed to develop the necessary skills for effectively communicating the significance of their research, particularly outside the immediate environment of fellow-specialists in their own discipline or subject area. The relevance of this training will be far-reaching in a range of contexts (grant applications, seminar and conference presentations, publications, job applications, and all forms of contact with the media) central to any researcher’s career. There are practical skills-based exercises and opportunities for discussion and feedback throughout.

  • Making the case for why your research matters: Key skills for engaging non-specialists and getting their attention
  • Looking beyond the case study: The micro and the macro dimensions of your research
  • Defining your contribution to the field: What is the nature of your intervention, and what difference will it make?
  • Making the headlines: Finding the story in your research, and how to announce it
  • Closed and open-ended research: Nailing the facts / pointing outward and onward
  • Generative research: Where does it lead, beyond the terms of the case you have chosen to study? What further research will it help to stimulate and promote?
  • Outcomes and benefits: Implications and applications
  • Impact: Scholarly, pedagogical, non-academic

http://www.lucianconsulting.com/impact--research-communication-skills.html

    Teacher

    Workshop Tutor Josie Dixon is an international training consultant and specialises in running workshops for postgraduates, postdoctoral researchers and staff in the humanities and social sciences. She has over 70 university clients in the UK, Europe and the USA. Principal areas for training are publishing research, writing and giving conference papers, and research communication skills. She was previously Publishing Director for the Academic Division at Palgrave Macmillan and Senior Commissioning Editor at Cambridge University Press, and also has clients in the publishing industry. More details at www.lucianconsulting.com

    Preparation

    Important: participants have to write a brief (max 1 page or even a paragraph will do) project description (outlining your research project) in order to plan groupings for the exercises in the course of the workshop and send it before September 28th, 2020 to doctoralschools@ugent.be

    Date & Teaching hours

    Monday 19 October 2020, from 09:30-16:00 with an hour's lunchbreak 12:30-13:30 (sandwich lunch is included)

    Teaching room

    Zaal Sacristie, het Pand, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent

    Registration

    Please follow this link: https://eventmanager.ugent.be/imrecomskills

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    Registration fee

    Free of charge for Doctoral School members. The no show policy applies: no-show policy UGent

    Teaching and learning material

    Handouts

    Language

    English

    Number of participants

    16

    Evaluation methods and criteria (doctoral training programme)

    100% participation