Effective science communication (2025)

Welcome to Effective science communication

Program: General course

Science is communicated mostly through the interpretation of empirical results, and an effective presentation of such results facilitates understanding and dissemination.  In order to be successful in disseminating results, researchers need to gain skills on how to create the relevant narrative to introduce the research problem, as well as present the results using appropriate figures, tables and even other tools such as videos and gifs. In this course students will gain skills in the following topics:

• Structuring your research question – the link between the literature and your project
• Formulating understandable hypotheses – what are you expecting from your data?
• Results layout – When to use or avoid tables/figures in papers and presentations?
• Communicating data – structuring your research speech and text to improve clarity

Form of evaluation:

A final assignment will consist of a presentation during a mini symposium organized at the last day of the course. 
In the presentation, students must demonstrate the gained skills in structuring the scientific question/hypothesis, as well as efficiently and appropriately illustrate a relevant result.
Data from PhD experiments can be used for presentation in case the student already possess his/her own project data.

Key literature: 

Relevant papers and book chapters will be provided to the participants shortly before the course.

Rooms: 2 & 3 October: 11.00.032, 22 October: 14.01.003

Zip code: 9220

City: Aalborg

Maximal number of participants: 15

Deadline: 11 September 2025

Important information concerning PhD courses: 

There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.

We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.

To attend courses at the Doctoral School in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology you must be enrolled as a PhD student.

For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at phdcourses@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.