This course is a part of HF's PhD week.
The course runs over two days, and participants must attend both days:
- Monday 2. June: 9am-4pm, seminar room 4, Sophus Bugges hus
- Friday 6. June: 9am-4pm, seminar room 1, Sophus Bugges hus
Course credits: 2 ECTS
Course credits are awarded when participants have been interviewed on radio or TV, participated in a podcast, or done a similar oral media dissemination.
The program and course work combines overview sessions on the demands and possibilities of research dissemination done on radio, podcast or TV, with working sessions that feature group work and individual feedback. You will prepare an actual media appearance, pitch your idea, and do a trial and an actual interview.
During the course, you will discuss and gain insights in the following questions:
- Why should researchers disseminate academic knowledge and what norms apply to our roles in the public sphere?
- How is dissemination in audio similar to or different from other forms of knowledge dissemination? Are there aspects to consider or specific preparations you should do?
- What considerations need to be taken into account when choosing outlets for your research? Who can benefit from it, and how much time can you devote to it?
- How should you pitch your idea to a non-academic media outlet?
- What can and should you expect as a researcher when you participate in a radio- or TV-show, a podcast, etc.?
- What does it take to make your own podcast?
Course preparations
Before the course
All participants must prepare, and upload to Canvas on 26 May at the latest, a written draft of a pitch to your chosen media outlet (radio, podcast or audio/videofile for a webpage). Your may use insights specifically from your PhD project, but it is often preferable that you draw on a more general body of knowledge in your discipline.We have a list of suggested readings and resources in Canvas to support your preparation for the course.
Your pitch should include a brief teaser of 250-300 words, a set of three to four questions that you could imagine that a journalist or podcast host would ask you on this topic, and a list of ideally three potential channels (media outlet/program, with links to these), that you can approach, ranked from ideal and to less desired channel.
Two days before the course, you will be sorted into groups, and we expect you to read the draft pitch to your fellow group members.
Please bring a computer.
In between the two course days
You will work with your group members in HF’s podcast studio. On the first day of the course, the group will reserve one hour in the HF: podcast studio sometime during 3rd, 4th or 5th June. Each group member records max 5 minutes each of Q&A on a topic of their own choice; you interview each other.
Make sure to upload the recording to the digital learning platform before the start of day 2 of the course.
After the course: Media dissemination
After the course, you will pitch your idea to a radio program, podcast host, editors of a web page with sound files, or similar. Course credits are awarded when participants have participated in a pod cast, had an audiofile published on a web page, been interviewed on radio or tv, or done a similar media dissemination.
The link to your dissemination is to be sent to the course leader Kjerstin Aukrust, with a copy to HF’s PhD coordinators, who will register the course, and to head of the PhD program Hanne Hagtvedt Vik.
Language
You may choose whether to carry out the public communication in English, Norwegian or another relevant language. In the course itself, joint sessions will be in English. We will aim to tailor group and individual work to each participant's language choice and needs, in English or Norwegian in the course.
Registration opens at 03.03.2025. PhD candidates at the Faculty of Humanities will be given priority. This course is compulsory for candidates admitted to the Faculty of Humanities' PhD programme after 31 December 2022 and/or adhere to the current programme structure.
Its 2 ECTS points also cover the 2-point requirement for research dissemination for candidates adhering to the previous programme structure, which includes most of the candidates who were admitted to the Faculty of Humanities' PhD programme before 31 December 2023.
Registration
NB: Attendance is mandatory both days, but you only need to submit one application.
The course is now fully booked. If you have any questions regarding registration, please contact phd-info@hf.uio.no
Course Convenors
- Kjerstin Aukrust, Associate professor ILOS
- Ellen Kathrine Lund, Senior Advicer IAKH
- Marte Rommetveit, HF Communication Department
Administrativ kontakt: phd-info@hf.uio.no