PDC25: Building Public Scholarship: Imagining and Designing a Translating Research Training Seminar for Students and Faculty

Session Type: Professional Development Course

Abstract

The goal of this course is to guide participants through the process of designing and creating a course in translating research. Designed for faculty, administrators, and advanced graduate students, this course will provide the groundwork for participants to learn and implement best practices for establishing and facilitating a course to communicate research or complex science to nonspecialized audiences such as policy makers, stakeholders, educational audiences, or the general public through a variety of means, including social media. Participants will learn why and how to establish a seminar that teaches their own participants how to communicate their complex research in manageable language to audiences and communities that need the information. Participants will learn how to teach people to summarize their research, how to teach people to write policy briefs, and how to develop a plan for conducting outreach in specific communities. Methods of this course include brief lecture, discussion, hands-on exercises, and small group collaboration. Successful examples of activities and assignments will be provided, and participants will design and draft their own assignments, tailored to their own needs. Participants will begin planning and drafting their own seminar during this session and will collaborate in small groups in order to maximize this networking opportunity.

Sub Unit

• Professional Development and Training Committee

Instructor

• Kandace M. Knudson, Sacramento City College