Springer Nature, as part of the GlobalSCAPE consortium, is delighted to present the following interactive virtual workshops tailored to the needs of all science communicators.
With the volume of scientific articles growing each year, it is becoming increasingly important for professional science communicators to understand the best strategies for maximizing the impact of their work. These workshops, developed as part of the GlobalSCAPE project, will help science communication practitioners understand strategies to identify appropriate studies, how to build relationships with scientists, effective writing and story-telling as well as how to promote your work and ensure it reaches your target audience.
Registration for these workshops is now open to everyone!
Practical information
This new series includes three workshop topics delivered on separate days. You are strongly encouraged to attend the whole series of three workshops.
We are offering two strands of the workshop series to accommodate participation from all over the world: Strand 1 (Asia Time zone) is available to participants from Asia, India and Australia; Strand 2 (Europe Time zone) is available to participants from Africa and Europe.
Workshop content
Working with scientists
This day will tackle two aspects of the collaboration with scientists: how to source scientific stories (through publications and events monitoring via various channels) and how to enhance communication with scientists to go beyond structured answers.
Writing effective press releases
The second day will be dedicated to press releases: how to write them, how to structure a science story, best distribution strategies and common problems that can be encountered.
External promotion
The last day of this series will give an overview of relevant promotion channels (social media, institutional websites) as well as general concepts of news, media, advocacy and outreach.
Your trainers
Dr. Jeffrey Robens is Senior Editorial Development Manager at Nature Research and is responsible for conducting the Nature Research Academies—training workshops to improve publication output worldwide. He has strong scientific qualifications with 20 years of academic experience and numerous publications and awards. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and then worked at premier research institutes in Singapore and Japan, including RIKEN and Kyoto University. Since leaving academia in 2012, he has conducted over 250 academic training workshops across Asia and the Middle East to help researchers improve their publication quality and impact.
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