Google Maps LinkThe 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.