Are you an early career researcher (PhD student, post-doc or in the beginning of your research career) and want to communicate your research to wider society? Then this workshop is for you!
SLU Global and SIANI invite you to participate in a two-day communication workshop on 29-30 May 2024 at SLU Ultuna Campus, Uppsala. We have prepared two full productive days for you to engage with well-known journalist Magnus Linton, most recognised researcher in Swedish media, Prof. Ashok Swain and anthropologist turned podcast expert, Ian Cook.
Guest Speakers
Magnus Linton
Magnus Linton is three-time August-nominated author of several notable non-fiction books, all characterized by a unique combination of research and design. He is a critic in Dagens Nyheter, an editor at the Institute for Future Studies and has many years of experience in writing tutoring for researchers.
Prof. Ashok Swain
Ashok Swain is a Professor and Head of Department of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. He is the UNESCO Chair on International Water Cooperation, and the Director of Research School of International Water Cooperation at Uppsala University. He is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of ‘Environment and Security’ journal. But most likely you would have heard of him from twitter. In 2023, he is ranked as the number one scientist in Sweden on social media with 620,000 followers on Twitter.
Workshop leader
Ian M. Cook
Dr. Ian M. Cook loves working with fellow scholars and students in making their podcast dreams a reality. By training, he is an anthropologist whose work focus includes urban India, scholarly podcasting, open education, and environmental (in)justice. He interviewed 101 scholars who podcast for his book Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How? and explored how podcasting can be peer reviewed scholarship in the co-written book Podcast or Perish: Peer Review and Knowledge Creation for the 21st Century (with Lori Beckstead and Hannah McGregor). Ian was Director of the Open Learning Initiative (OLIve) at CEU in Budapest from 2019-2023 and produced the related edited volume Opening Up the University: Teaching and Learning with Refugees (with Céline Cantat and Prem Kumar Rajaram). He is currently Editor and Chief at the multimodal anthropology publishing platform Allegra Lab. Personal website: www.drianmcook.net
Workshop programme
29 May
9.00 – 10.00, Mingle with us
10.00-10.15, Welcome and Introduction to the workshop, Alin Kadfak
10.15 – 12.00, Written ways to greater impact – rethinking text and purpose,Magnus Linton
12.00 – 13.00, Lunch
13.00 – 16.00, Scholarship beyond the journal article
Scholarship can be multimodal, collaborative and public. In this session a few examples will be presented before participants will make concrete plans for opening up their scholarship, Ian Cook
16.00 – 17.00, Social Media for Research and Activism: Strategies and Challenges, Prof. Ashok Swain
18.00, Dinner Uppsala city
30 May
9.00 – 10.30, What is a Podcast? Why Scholars Podcast? with Ian Cook
Create an idea for scholarly podcasting
First step of idea creation: what’s the purpose – how can it fit into wider research projects?
Structured Listening Exercise
Group listening session to a research podcast episode, discussion and reflection.
Create a structure and plan for a first episode and series
What elements do you want in your podcast and in what order?
10.00 – 10.30, Fika
10.30 – 12.00, Writing for the Ear with Ian Cook
How to translate scholarly prose into text that sounds great when spoken aloud.
Speaking to your Audience
Developing a podcast voice or presenting style.
Interviewing for tape
Interviewing with a podcast audience and not only a research project in mind.
Recording
Using different equipment, location acoustics, online interviews.
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 15.00, Practical Exercise with Ian Cook
Create either a trailer for a podcast you want to make or a mock 2 minute podcast.
15.00 -15.30 Fika
15.30 – 17.00, Podcast Hosting, Marketing and Funding
How to get your podcast into libraries and have audiences finding them.
AI Tools
Transcripts, editing and more.
Wrapping Up and Questions
17.00 – 17.15 Evaluation
For those who do not live in Uppsala, we will book and pay for a hotel in Uppsala between 28 – 30 May. You will cover your own travel cost to Uppsala.
Deadline: 24 April 2024
