About this course
This course is about telling clear, urgent, and compelling stories about complex content - stories that stick with your audience. You will be offered several practical tools which will help you communicate effectively.
- With different audiences, from industry collaborators to scientific peers and from students to interested laymen.
- In various types of communication: from grant applications to popular blogs, and from scientific presentations to your layman's speech.
During the course, you will:
· Learn the Analytic Storytelling method through theory, examples, and exercises.
· Experiment with various storytelling formats and techniques, by applying these to your own work.
· Receive written and on-the-spot feedback from your trainer as well as from your fellow participants.
You will leave with:
A storytelling toolbox that contains practical techniques and formats for
· tailoring your story to various audiences
· communicating urgency and relevance
· providing a rich and engaging context to make your story meaningful to others
- Course code
AS-2102
- Programme is for
Researchers that need to communicate complex content in a clear and convincing way.
This course is specifically for PhDs/EngDs. Enroll in the course How to convince your audience with a good story if you are not a PhD/EngD
- Date
2023
- 20 November 2023 (online)
- 14 December 2023 (online)
2024
- 16 January 2024 (U-Parkhotel)
- 16 February 2024 (online)
- 28 February 2024 (online)
- 13 March 2024 (U-Parkhotel)
- 18 April 2024 (online)
- 13 May 2024 (U-Parkhotel)
- 10 June 2024 (online)
- 18 June 2024 (U-Parkhotel)
- 2 juli 2024 (U-Parkhotel)
- 11 September 2024 (online)
- 30 September 2024 (U-Parkhotel)
- 17 October 2024 (U-Parkhotel)
- 22 November 2024 (online)
- Time
The online course day is from 9.30 - 16.30 h. In this period you will have:
-Morning session: an online group session of ~2.5 h
-Lunch break + assignment: ~1 h to have lunch and ~1h to work on an assignment
-Afternoon session: an online group session of ~2.5 h
Before the course day you follow a preparatory online module including an assignment (~2-3 hours).
- Location
Online or U-parkhotel
- Maximum participants
8 participants
- Trainers
Our trainers draw upon their experience with scientific research, philosophy, communication theory, creative writing, science journalism and theatre. Meet us here!
- ECTS
The study load for this course is roughly equivalent to 0,5 ECTS.
After participation, you receive a certificate.
Further information
S.P. Boekholt (Sofia)
Course Coordinator CDC
