Course
During four days, spread over two block courses (4 days in total, 2 ECTS), this introductory course gives doctoral candidates an understanding of basic concepts of science communication: Who are we communicating to and how do we best reach our audience? What is the science of communication? And what is worth being communicated?
You will also get to know the organizational structures involved as well as different communication tools. You will develop some of the course content interactively (group work), write a press release and even found a new research center. Individually designed assignments will be prepared in groups in between the two block courses.
Topics covered in the Science Communication course
- Environment of science communication and general concepts
- Overall situation of science
- Communication science
- Stakeholders of science
- Goals of science communication
- Structures and organisation of science communication
- Institutional communication
- The communication
- Brand development
- Tools of science communication
- Web
- Social Media
- Videos
- Events
- Personal communication
This course is open to all doctoral candidates of Luxembourg from every research discipline.
“How to best communicate scientific results to other scientists from the same field of research” is NOT a topic of this course.
For this, please refer to other transferable skill courses (e.g., Presentation Skills, Research Article Writing…).
The course is held by Dirk Hans with several other local science communication experts as guests.
The development of the Science Communication Course was supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR).
Pocket guide
This pocket guide provides theoretical and practical knowledge on science communication for interested researchers and science communicators. On 56 pages you can read about the topics covered in the DESCOM Science Communication Course and receive some practical tips.
The Pocket Guide gives an introduction into science communication, the importance of building trust and knowledge as well as clearly defining the audience and goals. Readers can also find chapters on stakeholders, core messages, language, strategy, organisation and brand building as well as basic information on different channels of science communication, amongst others websites, events, social media and videos. It was written by Dirk Hans, the lecturer of the DESCOM Science Communication Course.
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The course takes place at least once a year. Check out the Transferable Skills Course program to register for the next edition of this course.
There will be a registration survey that you need to fill out in the registration period.
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If you are interested in the course, please register during the registration period communicated in the Transferable skills course program.