Storytelling for scientists from diverse backgrounds
Date
This course consists of 3 live webinars and an online learning platform (with homework, eBooks, movies, podcasts and exercises).
Mon. (12.4.2021), 8.30-11.00 AM CET
Live webinar
Wed. (14.4.2021), 8.30-11.00 AM CET
Live webinar
Fri. (16.4.2021), 8.30-11.00 AM CET
Live webinar
Location
online via zoom
Credit points
0.5 CP
Course Language
English
Target Group
Doctoral Researchers
Contents
We all enjoy a good story, whether it's during a presentation, a job interview, a conference coffee break, or simply while scrolling through social media. Why? It activates the same areas of our brain that would be activated during the actual event. Consequently, audiences feel so much more engaged when they hear a narrative about your real-life experiences as researcher or how you finally chased that superbug down. Much more than if you monotonously talk them through a list of bullet points on a power point slide. But to be understood when talking about one's own research work, let alone to share stories, is not easy for many researchers. During this seminar, you learn to enchant a wide range of audiences with science stories and to captivate a lay audience with complex research results. Because… speaking science can be magical!
You’ll learn:
- to craft fictional and true stories for a variety of settings
- to integrate your stories in scientific presentations and publications
- to bring your science across using stories
- to tell an engaging story
- how to write engaging stories for social media
About making notes during the course
All participants receive a script of the course in PDF format for offline and future use so that they can work through the material offline as well as after the course.
About the trainer
Dr. Karin Bodewits
Dr. Karin Bodewits comes from the Netherlands where she studied Biology. After spending some time at Puleva Biotech in Spain and Unilever in China, she completed a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh. In 2012, she founded the successful company NaturalScience.careers, a seminar and talk provider for natural- and life scientists. In this function, she became book author, short story writer, speaker and seminar leader and published a wide range of career and soft skills relates articles in magazines like Chemistry World and Naturejobs. She writes the Career Fables for Science Careers.
