PM6 Scientific Dissemination #01

Welcome to this scientific dissemination course!

Course content

The first part of the course focus on presenting your own research to the academic community and society. The second part focus on theoretical and practical experience of disseminating research results presented at an academic conference to the academic community, industry, and society in general.

The course also provides a mix of theoretical and practical experiences for how a scientific event is designed and managed by following and participating in the design and management of a real scientific event focusing on the dissemination of result presented at the event.

Intended learning outcomes

After completion of the course the course participant should be able to

• Understand the role of scientific events in the research and innovation eco-system
• Have an understanding of personal dissemination strategies
• Understand the different objectives of researchers and non-expert and having ability to bridge the gap
• Present their own research in dialogue with the academic community and society in general
• Present and discuss others research in dialogue with the academic community and society in general

Demonstrate the ability in both national and international contexts to present and discuss research and research findings authoritatively in speech and writing and in dialogue with the academic community and society in general.

Course organisation

The course is organised in three parts:

• The first part of the course focusing on disseminating the participants own research through both academic and more popular channels.
• The second part of the course is interaction with the scientific and organising committee of a scientific event. During the event, course participants:
  • plan and facilitate part of the event,
  • perform interviews with prominent researchers/keynote speakers,
  • summarise sessions/themes/topics, and
  • disseminate the research in various channels and social media.
• Finally, in the third part, the student creates a personal dissemination strategy.

Examination

A successful completion of this course will be judged on the following:
• Participation in lectures/session
• Dissemination of their own research (poster/academic video/societal video pitch and an elevator pitch)
• Create a report multimedia and social media content for a specific sessions, theme or topics from the conference.
• The quality of the personal dissemination strategy

Literature
E.g. Harabor, D., & Vallati, M. (2020). Organising a Successful AI Online Conference: Lessons from SoCS 2020. arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.12129.

Mollett et al (2017) Communicating Your Research with Social Media: A Practical Guide to Using Blogs, Podcasts, Data Visualisations and Video. SAGE.

Handouts and readings presented during the course.

Due to pandemic restrictions, the conference organisers may limit the number of participants on site. Some student may therefore only participate online. Course content will be mirrored (similar) online/on site.

Fee for late drop-out

This course is included in the Produktion2030 program, and it is therefore free of charge for PhD student members of Graduate School Produktion2030. However, in case of drop-out later than 3 weeks before course start, a fee of 1 000 SEK per course credit will be charged the student’s home institution.