Course Science Outreach Beyond the Scientists

The course Science Outreach Beyond the Scientists is being offered by the Graduate School of Natural Sciences/GSNS and Graduate School of Technical Sciences/GSTS, Aarhus University, fall 2021.

No. of contact hours/hours in total incl. preparation, assignment(s) or the like: 30

Capacity limit: Min. 7 participants and max.20 participants

Aim: The course aims to enable students to deliver their science to a non-academic audience, through teaching them how to deliver their information to different groups of people. They will learn how to select an audience for their material and how to define the most relevant information for that audience. They will learn to relate their research to those outside of academic circles.

• Provide overview of types of outreach and their link to different audience types with different aims
• Provide tools and strategies for delivering outreach to different audience types
• Apply knowledge to create and host an outreach event

Learning outcomes: Students should have an understanding of how to:

• Identify potential outreach opportunities
• Create content for different audience types
• Deliver/communicate their research to nonacademic audiences
• Structuring the content to best deliver their message.

Content: Outreach is more than reaching an audience of interested folks. In today’s society, it is the people least interested in science that tend to inform the future politics of conducting research and applying results. Therefore, reaching larger audiences is more important than ever. More often than not, funding comes with a stipulation of outreach, additional to scientific papers. This course focuses on how to reach different audiences with the same message, from young kids to non-academic adults. The final project is to apply the lesson of the course to create an implementable outreach activity.
Development and delivery of final outreach activity, participation in lectures and exercises

Recommended knowledge for participation: None, but advancement within PhD project would be helpful

Instructors: Ashley Pearcy Buitenwerf

Venue: Conference Center, Meeting room 1, Fredrik Nielsens Vej 4, 8000 Aarhus.

Registration:
Participation in the course is without cost for PhD students from Aarhus University.

Due to an Agreement between Danish Universities coming into force as of 1 January 2011, participants from other universities than Aarhus University will have to pay DKK 1,200 per ECTS. In principle this also applies to external parties, but exemption can be granted under specific circumstances.

Please be aware that your registration for the course not necessarily equals your admission for the course. You will receive an e-mail after the registration deadline regarding whether you are admitted for the course or if you are registered on the waiting list. Please note that seats are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.

Course dates:

• 01 November 2021 09:00 - 12:00
• 02 November 2021 09:00 - 12:00
• 03 November 2021 09:00 - 12:00
• 08 November 2021 09:00 - 12:00
• 09 November 2021 09:00 - 12:00
• 10 November 2021 09:00 - 12:00