The workshop will be held in English and run for one day, on May 23, 2022.

As a scientist, you often need to communicate with audiences that do not share your expertise, e.g. students, colleagues from different fields, grant bodies, the general public. When writing for or speaking to non-experts, however, your message needs to travel across linguistic differences: people outside your field tend to be either ignorant about some of your technical terminology or associate different meanings with it. In any case, a profound exchange of ideas will be impeded as a consequence.

To enable scientists sharing and generating knowledge with diverse audiences, this workshop will introduce strategies for comprehensibly describing scientific expertise. Learn, for example, how you can effortlessly convey the meaning of discipline-specific concepts. As a result, you will be better understood by people with different backgrounds, i.e in most of your professional communication.

Major topics of the workshop are:

• Why is it so hard to communicate comprehensibly? The multiple reasons why jargon often prevails in science.

• Tactics for describing scientific concepts mostly jargon-free: general terminology, analogies, visual aids (diagrams).

This workshop is open to doctoral researchers and postdocs at KIT who are KHYS members. 

The workshop will be held in English and run for one day, on May 23, 2022.