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SASUF Sustainability Forum 2024
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SASUF Sustainability Forum 15-17 May 2024

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Thursday, May 16 • 10:00 - 12:00
Science communication and public engagement tools to stimulate effective research collaboration

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The goal of this workshop is to draw on the foundations of science communication to equip participants with the skills to help them effectively transfer knowledge, across cultural divides. This can enable more productive research collaboration, since researchers from South Africa and Sweden have a lot to learn from each other when it comes to achieving and managing sustainability in a wide array of applications. The workshop may enable research collaborations between these two countries, equipping and empowering other researchers to effectively transfer knowledge for public engagement and, ultimately, social transformation. The workshop will consist of 2 parts.

The first part (about 50 minutes) will focus on providing participants with theoretical and practical tools. It will cover, amongst other aspects, a brief history of public science communication and its ideas, and motivations for its importance to researchers. Next, this session will introduce innovative ways of knowledge transfer, based on lessons from science communication, emphasising three key aspects – storytelling, responsive dialogues, and data visualisation. 

The second part (about 45 minutes) will consist of an interactive group exercise in which participants will use one of the three key approaches (storytelling, responsive dialogues, and data visualisation) to structure communication aimed at fostering research collaboration in a fictional scenario.
 
What do delegates need?
Own laptops, with MS Word or other word processing application.


Keywords: research communication; knowledge transfer; responsive dialogues; public engagement; knowledge for public impact.
Speakers
avatar for Professor Marina Joubert

Professor Marina Joubert

Associate Professor, Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST), Stellenbosch University
Dr Marina Joubert is a science communication researcher at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She promotes pro-active involvement of researchers in open dialogue between science and society, and the development of evidence-based science communication practice. Her research interests... Read More →
avatar for Marnell Kirsten

Marnell Kirsten

PhD student, Industrial Marketing, Luleå University of Technology
Marnell Kirsten (she/her) has a formal background in both visual cultural studies and science communication. Her past research projects relate to media and communication studies, the politics of representation, cultural semiotics, and socio-cultural implications of data visualisation... Read More →

Thursday May 16, 2024 10:00 - 12:00 CEST
Östan, Agricum
  Theme 3 - Social Transformation

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