Events in Collaboration
Translating Your Science into Public Discourse Workshop
Facilitated by Patrick Bonczyk (WAC+WID Coordinator) and Nora Bradford (Graduate Writing Consultant, CEWC) in Collaboration with the Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health
🗓️Tuesday May 13, 2025 | 2:00-3:15 PM
📍COHS, RM 2100
In this workshop, faculty, staff & students from across the health sciences will learn models and tools for translating their research for different public readers (local, state, national). We will discuss the motivations for translating science to a wider audience—including policy work, advocacy, and public education— as well as the challenges in doing so. Using examples from a variety of health-related sciences, we will walk attendees through the translation process and encourage them to think flexibly about how they might adapt their writing based on the context. The workshop will have interactive activities throughout, but we will also reserve the last 30 minutes for extended work time to further develop the workshop’s ideas and for attendees to receive real-time feedback. Participants will walk away with having started the work of translating sections of their own writing as well as an argumentative model for their research they would like to translate into public science writing.
Given the current challenges to science funding and support, attendees may come to the workshop with a topic in mind they feel passionate about addressing. If not, we will build in time for them to develop one.
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