This course is a part of HF's PhD week.
This is one of two versions of the HF media dissemination course. This course trains written communication. It IS FULLY BOOKED and will be offered next time in week 49 2024. The other version of the course is offered on 21/24 May 2024 and trains skills in oral communication.
The course runs over two days, and participants must attend both days, with revision of your own text and reading of texts by your peers between the two days:
Day 1: Tuesday 4th June, in class, 9-16
Thursday 6th June, by 1 pm: new version of your text
Day 2: Friday 7th June, in class, 9-16
This is a 2 ECTS course. Course credits are awarded when your text has been published for a non-specialist or general audience.
The course provides hands-on training, starting from the course participants' disciplines and PhD projects. The program and course work combines overview sessions on the demands and possibilities of research dissemination in different outlets, with working sessions that feature group work and individual feedback. You will prepare, discuss, revise, and eventually publish a text.
During the course, you will discuss and gain insights in the following questions:
- Why should reasearchers disseminate academic knowledge and what norms apply to our roles in the public sphere?
- How is dissemination in text similar to or different from other forms of knowledge dissemination? Are there particular aspects to consider?
- What considerations need to be taken into account when choosing outlets for your research? Who can benefit from your knowledge, and how much time can you devote to writing and publishing for a general audience?
Course preparations
Reading: We have a suggested reading list to support your preparation for the course. Two days before the course, you will be sorted into groups, and we expect you to read the drafts by your fellow group members.
Writing: All participants must prepare, and upload to the digital learning platform on 24 May at the latest, a draft of a text of 500-800 words intended for general-audience publication in print or on the Web. Please include a list of ideally three potential outlets that you can approach, ranked from ideal and to less desired. The draft should be unfinished, so don’t spend a lot of time doing the first draft!
You may use insights specifically from your PhD project, but it is often preferable that you draw on a more general body of knowledge in your discipline. If you want to, you can draw on the essay you submitted to the HF course Introduction to theories of knowledge on how your contribution to knowledge matter and is relevant to society. If you are aiming for a news or actualities outlet, your text should refer to an existing theme or topic of discussion. You may also publish via general-audience Web sites, where this is usually less essential.
Please bring a computer.
In between the two course days: 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.
Make sure to upload the new version to the digital learning platform before 1 pm the day before day 2 of the course.
After the course: publish your text
After the course, you will publish your text. Course credits are awarded when participants have published a text in a media outlet for a non-specialist or general audience.
The link to your dissemination is to be sent to the course leader Kristian Bjørkdahl, with a copy to HF’s PhD coordinator Sarah Salameh, who will register the course, and to head of the PhD program Hanne Hagtvedt Vik.
Language
You may choose whether to carry out the public communication in English, Norwegian or another relevant language. In the course itself, joint sessions will be in English. We will aim to tailor group and individual work to each participant's language choice and needs, in English or Norwegian in the course.
Registration
Registration opens at 12.00 on 20 February. THE COURSE IS FULLY BOOKED.
Candidates admitted to the PhD programme at the Faculty of Humanities at UiO are given priority.
Participation in one of the versions of the media dissemination course is compulsory for candidates admitted to the 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 PhD programme before 1 December 2023.
If you have already attended the HF media dissemination course that focus on writing skills, the ECTS credits for this course may be registered as “other courses and activities” in your educational component.
NB: Attendance is mandatory both days.
Course Convenors
Kristian Bjørkdahl, associate professor, ILN
Mina Hauge Nærland, journalist and news editor, Aftenposten
Administrative contact: Hanne Hagtvedt Vik, Head of PhD program
Program for Media dissemination of research
The program will be published in the Canvas-room.
Reading list for Media dissemination of research - text
List of required readings will be published in the Canvas-room.