Course content and outcome goals
Last year, still unaware of the concept sakpoesi, Joke Dewilde and research colleague Ingrid Rodrick Beiler shared some field notes with communications advisor and writer Monica Bjermeland. They challenged her to produce a piece of fiction based on their data. Against her better judgement, Bjermeland chose the short story form.
In this course, Dewilde and Bjermeland will share what they learnt in the process and hopefully inspire and equip you to innovate your own communication activities.
We will share the full story behind the short story as well as a facilitate a workshop where you will start planning your own research-based creative writing story.
You will learn:
- Why we did this co-creation
- The rationale behind using fiction as a science communication means
- How we got started
- Which problems we ran into (hint: ethnographic reality vs literary reality)
- How we solved them
- What different drafts looked like
- The gains and losses
- What we'll do differently next time
You will then get a chance to work with your own idea(s):
- Which of your own findings would you want to communicate to a wider audience?
- Would you want to involve an external «communication partner» (with which expertise and why?)
- Make a plan!
We recommend that you read the short story prior to the course.
Target audience
This session is for academics who are curious about using creative writing for the purpose of reaching a wider audience when disseminating their research.
Instructors
Joke Dewilde is Professor of Multilingualism in Education and Head of Research at the Department of Teacher Education and School Research. Monica Bjermeland is Senior Communications Advisor at The Faculty of Educational Sciences and a Fiction Writer.