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Science Communication – Getting Started with Podcasting – In-person event

In this interactive workshop, you will get hands-on experience planning, recording, and editing a podcast.

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Event language: English

To communicate your scientific research to non-specialists' audiences in today's media landscape, you must attract your audience in entertaining and relatable ways while building trust and connection with your audience.

Podcasts are an excellent medium for this but you need to understand and also use the basics of storytelling to tailor messages for different audiences with unique cultural, geographic, political, or academic backgrounds. This workshop uses the narrative policy framework of communication which understands that humans make decisions and take in new information based on emotion, worldview, relationships, and experience rather than fact alone.

Accordingly, this workshop is designed for doctoral candidates, early career scientists and postdocs who wish to communicate their research to the public using the podcast medium. The lessons are also relevant for presenting at academic conferences, academic writing, networking with colleagues, or writing grants. 

Qualification Outcomes

After the workshop, you will

• Understand the importance of narrative storytelling when conveying information.
• Be able to identify your target audience.
• Be capable of identifying story elements (character, settings, plot, etc.) within scientific research and have the ability to modify these to different audiences.
• Understand the strengths and weaknesses of common studio and field microphones and when to use each.
• Be skilled in recording and interviewing best practices, scriptwriting and storyboarding.
• Be able to edit raw audio, add sounds and music, and export a finished podcast for posting online to different channels.

Methods

Trainer input, discussions, group work, hands-on experiences, case-studies

Requirements

Participants are required to bring a smartphone and/ or laptop for audio editing and to facilitate the recording processes. Freely available software for audio editing can be downloaded during the course and students do not need prior experience or software.

Proficiency in English at the B2 level of competency is required.

Date

January 31, 2025, 9 am–5 pm

Target group

Doctoral candidates and postdocs from all disciplines

Modalities

Maximum number of 12 participants
Internal 25 EUR
External 75 EUR

Registration

Please register using the online registration form until January 16, 2025.

Please note that your registration is binding. You may cancel your registration up to twelve days before the course begins without providing specific reasons. Thereafter, you will be required to pay the attendance fee even if you do not attend the course.

Please note that you need to register once in our database to use MARA offers.

This workshop is part of the program Science Communication.