This course is a part of HF's PhD week.
The course runs over two days, and participants must attend both days:
Wednesday 29 November: 9am-4pm, seminar room 3, Sophus Bugges hus
Friday 1 December: 9am-4pm, seminar room 1 Sophus Bugges hus
Course credits: 2 ECTS
Course credits are given when the text is published for a general audience.
This course in research dissemination and outreach focuses on the possibilities and demands of disseminating research to a general, non-specialist audience. It provides hands-on writing skills, starting from the course participants' PhD projects and discipline, as well as academic reflection on news and current affairs media as arenas for research dissemination.
All participants bring to the course a draft of a text intended for general-audience publication in print or on the Web. It should be unfinished, so don’t spend a lot of time doing the first draft! We will work on it in class, and this tends to lead to significant rewriting.
If you are aiming for a news or actualities outlet, your text should refer to an existing theme or topic of discussion in that context. You may also publish via general-audience Web pages for the dissemination of research, where this is usually less essential. The text may utilise insights specifically from your PhD project, but it is often preferable that the texts draw on a broader and more general body of knowledge in your discipline.
Course preparations
The course participants are required to submit a draft dissemination text of 500-800 words. You will revise the draft between the two course days and a new version will be discussed during the second course day. Please reserve time between the two course days to revise your text.
We have suggested a reading list to support your writing and preparation for the course. Two days before the course, your drafts will be sorted into groups, and we expect you to read the drafts in your group before we meet.
Please bring a computer.
In class
The course combines overview sessions on the demands and possibilities of research dissemination with working sessions that feature group work and individual feedback.
Language
You may choose whether to write your text in English or Norwegian. In the course itself, joint sessions will be in English, except one session that deals with how Norwegian-language texts are put together. We will aim to tailor group and individual work to each participant's language choice and needs.
Registration
The course is now fully booked.
Registration opens at noon 20 September. PhD candidates at the Faculty of Humanities will be given priority between 20 September and 1 October. If the course isn't fully booked by 1 October, we admit new participants on a "first come, first served" basis.
This course is compulsory for candidates admitted to the Faculty of Humanities' PhD programme after 31 December 2022 and/or adhere to the current programme structure.
Its 2 ECTS points also cover the 2-point requirement for research dissemination for candidates adhering to the previous programme structure, which includes most of the candidates who were admitted to the Faculty of Humanities' PhD programme before 1 December 2023.
NB: Attendance is mandatory both days, but you only need to submit one application.
Course Convenors
Associate professor Kjerstin Aukrust, ILOS
Mina Hauge Nærland, journalist and news editor in the cultural affairs department of Aftenposten