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Communicating Research: General Aspects

This article explores the general aspects of communicating research, including different scenarios, activities, goals, languages, and forms of communication. It also discusses the historical and sociocultural dimension of communication and the role of participants in the communication process. Practical exercises and recommendations are provided to improve research communication strategies.

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Communicating Research: General Aspects

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  1. 1. Communicating Research:General Aspects Purificación SALMERÓN-VÍLCHEZ, University of Granada

  2. Contents • Communicating Research: General aspects  • Networking technologies: Euro-Mediterranean Agora • Recommendations from different guides of the Union European on communicating EU funded research • The role of the NCPs in supporting research communication • Practical exercises to assess your field activities and brainstorm on your next activities • How to think of your "communication strategy"?

  3. Scientific Communitya 1. Communicating research: general aspects  …

  4. 1. Communicating research: general aspects  • Different Scenarios • Different Activities • Different Goals or interests • Different languages and forms of communication • Different knowledge and meanings • … …

  5. 1. Communicating research: general aspects  Communication, as an activity, is a complex phenomenon linked to the historical and sociocultural dimension of each context and each community that participates in it.

  6. 1. Communicating research: general aspects 

  7. 1. Communicating research: general aspects  • Communication processes are not explained as mere interchanges of information between a sender and a receiver through a channel … &%·$&((;_: &%·$&((;_:

  8. 1. Communicating research: general aspects  • Communication is a much more complex phenomenon: ? &%·$&((;_: • a. The communication activity is mediated historically and socio-culturally. • b. All of the participants in the activity are going to play an active role

  9. 1. Communicating research: general aspects  • The communication activity is mediated historically and socio-culturally. • Organization, roles, goals, tools… • Involvement of participants…

  10. 1. Communicating research: general aspects  • b. Active role of participants: • A mutual effort to reach a common understanding ? &%·$&((;_: • Each participant contributes prior cultural knowledge and experience • About the content (topic, terminology, etc. ) • About the communication activity in which he/she is participating (roles, tools, etc.)

  11. 1. Communicating research: general aspects  • When we participate as managers of the communicative activity, we have greater responsibility in the process: &%·$&((;_:

  12. Prepare the activity 1. Communicating research: general aspects 

  13. Prepare the activity 1. Communicating research: general aspects 

  14. Thetype of discourse and itscontent Prepare the activity 1. Communicating research: general aspects 

  15. Scientific community Thetype of discourse and itscontent Prepare the activity 1. Communicating research: general aspects  …

  16. Thetype of discourse Prepare the activity 1. Communicating research: general aspects  • Discourses (oral or written) … • Simple discursive Genres (immediate, everyday, less restrictive communication; accessible to all the communities but of an informal nature) • Complex discursive Genres (more specialized cultural communication, with restrictive forms and content, characteristic of each community of practice)

  17. Thetype of discourse Prepare the activity 1. Communicating research: general aspects  • Discourses (oral or written) … • Complex • Format: According to the communicative context • Structure: • Contents organized and divided into different parts • Follow a logical sequence • Connected to each other following a common narrative theme

  18. Thetype of discourse Prepare the activity 1. Communicating research: general aspects  • Discourse (oral or written) • One-way discourse (discourse constructed mainly by the person speaking ) • Two-way discourse (Collaborative and constructed jointly with the participation in the communication activity )

  19. Thecontent of thediscourse Whatonewantstocommunicate Prepare the activity 1. Communicating research: general aspects  Whattheyknow Whatintereststhem Howit can be of use tothem

  20. Prepare the activity 1. Communicating research: general aspects  Activities for communicating research

  21. Participation, collaboration, learning, knowledge, etc. Number of participants, Interactivity, etc. 1. Communicating research: general aspects  Type of activity (conference, seminar, etc.) Spaces (face-to-faceor virtual) required and available Necessary and available times

  22. Prepare the activity 1. Communicating research: general aspects  Activities for communicating research

  23. Evaluation of the communicative activity 1. Communicating research: general aspects  • Involves collecting evidence about the communication activity participated in, in order to make value judgments • Implies becoming aware of whether or not the objectives were achieved • Can be the starting point for making improvements in future interventions

  24. Evaluation of the communicative activity 1. Communicating research: general aspects  • Criteria

  25. Evaluation of the communicative activity 1. Communicating research: general aspects  • Techniques and instruments

  26. 1. Communicating research: general aspects 

  27. 1. Communicating research: general aspects  Prezi Presentations FP7 to H2020 .... as far as we know right now. Michael Kerschbaumer. Ediburgh, March, 2013

  28. 1. Communicating research: general aspects  Informative guides

  29. List of frequentquestions 1. Communicating research: general aspects 

  30. Supports and tools to aid communication Prepare the activity 1. Communicating research: general aspects 

  31. Supports and tools to aid communication 1. Communicating research: general aspects  Webs, Blogs

  32. Supports and tools to aid communication 1. Communicating research: general aspects  Webs, Blogs

  33. Supports and tools to aid communication 1. Communicating research: general aspects  Social networks

  34. Purificación SALMERÓN-VÍLCHEZ, University of Granada, Spain psalmero@ugr.es www.medspring.eu This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

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