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Getting Your Message Across:
Storytelling for Researchers and other Professionals
A One Day Workshop
Wednesday 13th July 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Participation:
In September 2015 Inter-Disciplinary.Net hosted a one day workshop on
Getting your Message Across: Storytelling for researchers and other
professionals, during which we presented some of our views about the value
of adopting a storytelling style, for those who want to write engagingly
and in ways that both inform and challenge their readers. However, the
dominant focus of the day was on two things. First, it offered participants
the opportunity to reflect on some perennial problems faced by authors in
writing both clearly and concisely about research and other professional
matters, especially when they are writing for an inter-disciplinary
audience. Secondly, it gave them the opportunity to engage in shared
writing and live editing of text in a supportive and collegial group.
In our second workshop on Getting your Message Across, we will again be
offering support to writers at all levels in developing an engaging style
that communicates clearly, by conveying complex information as simply as
possible using a storytelling style. In doing so we will invite
participants to abandon the idea (if they have it, and many people do) that
since their research and ideas are important, they need to use difficult
and important sounding words (including as much technical jargon as
possible) and to develop a style of writing that only really clever people
will be able to understand. We will suggest, instead, that they should aim
to make their writing as easy to understand as possible, by thinking of it
as a species of storytelling.
Call for Participation
Anyone, from any background, who is interested in the use of storytelling
to convey important ideas, is invited to submit a brief expression of
interest in the workshop (up to 300 words) which should address one or more
of the following:
• the reason or reasons that they would like to participate in this
workshop, which may include references to what they have to share with
others, as well as to what they hope to gain from it.
• whether, and if so, how, they think that the challenges they face in
communicating their ideas or the results of their research to an
interdisciplinary audience differ from those they face in communicating
them to an audience of peers from their own discipline or subject.
• what, in their view, are the characteristics of engaging, genuinely
informative and challenging writing in any area of professional or academic
life.
Expressions of interest will be printed in the workshop booklet and during
the workshop participants will have the opportunity to elaborate the ideas
and views they have thus expressed, during a structured 'round-table'
session.
We invite expressions of interest for people thinking of attending and for
them to send a statement of their interest and experience/expertise to the
organising chairs by Friday 26th February 2016:
Gavin Fairbairn and Susan Fairbairn: gsstory@inter-disciplinary.net
<mailto:gsstory@inter-disciplinary.net>
Rob Fisher: message2@inter-disciplinary.net
<mailto:message2@inter-disciplinary.net>
Schedule:
The day will begin with registration between 8.30 am and 9.30am Wednesday
13th July 2016 and will be followed by a series of presentation sessions
and workshops. Refreshments and a 2 course sit-down lunch will be provided.
After the final workshop and summation of the days discussions and the
event will end with a drinks reception.
The workshop will include presentation by the workshop leaders; episodes of
reflection and discussion, and a number of practical activities aimed at
developing ideas and skills. So, for example, there will be:
Opportunities for reflection about the nature of academic and professional
writing.
Opportunities to share problems with writing.
Opportunities to share 'hot tips' for writers.
Opportunities for shared writing and editing.
The opportunity to engage in 'live editing' of text as a group
Giving a timetable for a workshop like this is almost impossible. However,
at some point during the day, we will talk about a range of issues,
including:
Developing an engaging style.
Conveying complex information as simply as possible.
Abandoning complex language, big and important sounding words when
possible.
Academic and professional writing as a species of storytelling.
Engaging, informing and challenging readers.
Empathising with your audience.
How citation can interfere with meaning-making in academic storytelling
Putting citation to use in developing academic texts, and in developing
academic stories.
All of this activity will take place between the set timetable for
coffee/tea breaks and lunch and will end with a wine reception.
Registration Fee: £85. (Special discounted price of £65 available if booked
with the Story's Place in our Lives event - details of which can be found
here:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/storytelling-global-reflections-on-narrative/research-streams/storytelling-global-reflections-on-narrative/story-2-call-for-papers/
)
conference registration fee
discounted rate off any Inter-Disciplinary Press or Fisher Imprints
publications
access to the conference project initiative support materials
morning coffee break with coffee, tea, fruit juice, fresh fruits, cakes
2 course waiter served lunch
afternoon coffee break with coffee, tea, fruit juice, fresh fruits, cakes
Drinks Reception
Further details and information can be found at the workshop website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/storytelling-global-reflections-on-narrative/research-streams/courses-and-workshops/getting-your-message-across/
Organisers:
Workshop Leaders
Gavin Fairbairn and Susan Fairbairn:
Independent Researchers
Gavin and Susan have worked in a wide range of areas, including medical and
nursing education; applied philosophy and ethics; social and environmental
psychology; primary and special education; social work and residential
care; learning disability; child, adolescent and adult psychiatry; teacher
education; professional development and study skills. Between us we have
published on a very wide range of topics, including medical and nursing
education; doctor's interviewing skills; suicide; reconciliation after
conflict; empathy; storytelling; professional development; euthanasia;
sexuality and learning disability; bereavement; the spiritual care of dying
children, and inclusive education.
While pursuing our own professional lives, we have managed find ways of
working together at times and have, for example, organised and chaired many
conferences, including a series many years ago about Ethical Issues in
Caring, as well as IDNET conferences on Empathy; Storytelling, Bullying and
Responsible Living. Together we have published three books about
professional ethics.
Between us we have published four books about issues in academic literacy.
Gavin co-authored Getting Published: advice for academics and other
professionals with David Canter and his book with Chris Winch, Reading,
Writing and Reasoning; a guide for students, now in its 26th year and third
edition, has been translated into both Portuguese and Chinese. Together we
co-authored Writing your Abstract: a guide for would-be conference
presenters and Reading at University: a guide for students, which has been
translated into both Chinese and Indonesian.
As teachers at every level from nursery school to postgraduate level we
have had a great deal of experience of facilitating the development of
writing, including academic and professional writing. Together we have
presented a number of workshops for developing academic writers and during
his time as Professor of Ethics and Language at Leeds Beckett University,
and in earlier posts as Professor of Education at Liverpool Hope and as
Professor of Professional Development at the University of Glamorgan, much
of Gavin's time was given over to such workshops both with colleagues and
students and at other institutions, including universities in Poland and in
the UK.
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are
not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or
subsistence.
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Date: Jan 27, 2016 7:04 AM
Subject: CFP:Getting Your Message Across: Storytelling for Researchers and other Professionals
To: <honey.honour@gmail.com>
Cc:
Getting Your Message Across:
Storytelling for Researchers and other Professionals
A One Day Workshop
Wednesday 13th July 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Participation:
In September 2015 Inter-Disciplinary.Net hosted a one day workshop on
Getting your Message Across: Storytelling for researchers and other
professionals, during which we presented some of our views about the value
of adopting a storytelling style, for those who want to write engagingly
and in ways that both inform and challenge their readers. However, the
dominant focus of the day was on two things. First, it offered participants
the opportunity to reflect on some perennial problems faced by authors in
writing both clearly and concisely about research and other professional
matters, especially when they are writing for an inter-disciplinary
audience. Secondly, it gave them the opportunity to engage in shared
writing and live editing of text in a supportive and collegial group.
In our second workshop on Getting your Message Across, we will again be
offering support to writers at all levels in developing an engaging style
that communicates clearly, by conveying complex information as simply as
possible using a storytelling style. In doing so we will invite
participants to abandon the idea (if they have it, and many people do) that
since their research and ideas are important, they need to use difficult
and important sounding words (including as much technical jargon as
possible) and to develop a style of writing that only really clever people
will be able to understand. We will suggest, instead, that they should aim
to make their writing as easy to understand as possible, by thinking of it
as a species of storytelling.
Call for Participation
Anyone, from any background, who is interested in the use of storytelling
to convey important ideas, is invited to submit a brief expression of
interest in the workshop (up to 300 words) which should address one or more
of the following:
• the reason or reasons that they would like to participate in this
workshop, which may include references to what they have to share with
others, as well as to what they hope to gain from it.
• whether, and if so, how, they think that the challenges they face in
communicating their ideas or the results of their research to an
interdisciplinary audience differ from those they face in communicating
them to an audience of peers from their own discipline or subject.
• what, in their view, are the characteristics of engaging, genuinely
informative and challenging writing in any area of professional or academic
life.
Expressions of interest will be printed in the workshop booklet and during
the workshop participants will have the opportunity to elaborate the ideas
and views they have thus expressed, during a structured 'round-table'
session.
We invite expressions of interest for people thinking of attending and for
them to send a statement of their interest and experience/expertise to the
organising chairs by Friday 26th February 2016:
Gavin Fairbairn and Susan Fairbairn: gsstory@inter-disciplinary.net
<mailto:gsstory@inter-disciplinary.net>
Rob Fisher: message2@inter-disciplinary.net
<mailto:message2@inter-disciplinary.net>
Schedule:
The day will begin with registration between 8.30 am and 9.30am Wednesday
13th July 2016 and will be followed by a series of presentation sessions
and workshops. Refreshments and a 2 course sit-down lunch will be provided.
After the final workshop and summation of the days discussions and the
event will end with a drinks reception.
The workshop will include presentation by the workshop leaders; episodes of
reflection and discussion, and a number of practical activities aimed at
developing ideas and skills. So, for example, there will be:
Opportunities for reflection about the nature of academic and professional
writing.
Opportunities to share problems with writing.
Opportunities to share 'hot tips' for writers.
Opportunities for shared writing and editing.
The opportunity to engage in 'live editing' of text as a group
Giving a timetable for a workshop like this is almost impossible. However,
at some point during the day, we will talk about a range of issues,
including:
Developing an engaging style.
Conveying complex information as simply as possible.
Abandoning complex language, big and important sounding words when
possible.
Academic and professional writing as a species of storytelling.
Engaging, informing and challenging readers.
Empathising with your audience.
How citation can interfere with meaning-making in academic storytelling
Putting citation to use in developing academic texts, and in developing
academic stories.
All of this activity will take place between the set timetable for
coffee/tea breaks and lunch and will end with a wine reception.
Registration Fee: £85. (Special discounted price of £65 available if booked
with the Story's Place in our Lives event - details of which can be found
here:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/storytelling-global-reflections-on-narrative/research-streams/storytelling-global-reflections-on-narrative/story-2-call-for-papers/
)
conference registration fee
discounted rate off any Inter-Disciplinary Press or Fisher Imprints
publications
access to the conference project initiative support materials
morning coffee break with coffee, tea, fruit juice, fresh fruits, cakes
2 course waiter served lunch
afternoon coffee break with coffee, tea, fruit juice, fresh fruits, cakes
Drinks Reception
Further details and information can be found at the workshop website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/storytelling-global-reflections-on-narrative/research-streams/courses-and-workshops/getting-your-message-across/
Organisers:
Workshop Leaders
Gavin Fairbairn and Susan Fairbairn:
Independent Researchers
Gavin and Susan have worked in a wide range of areas, including medical and
nursing education; applied philosophy and ethics; social and environmental
psychology; primary and special education; social work and residential
care; learning disability; child, adolescent and adult psychiatry; teacher
education; professional development and study skills. Between us we have
published on a very wide range of topics, including medical and nursing
education; doctor's interviewing skills; suicide; reconciliation after
conflict; empathy; storytelling; professional development; euthanasia;
sexuality and learning disability; bereavement; the spiritual care of dying
children, and inclusive education.
While pursuing our own professional lives, we have managed find ways of
working together at times and have, for example, organised and chaired many
conferences, including a series many years ago about Ethical Issues in
Caring, as well as IDNET conferences on Empathy; Storytelling, Bullying and
Responsible Living. Together we have published three books about
professional ethics.
Between us we have published four books about issues in academic literacy.
Gavin co-authored Getting Published: advice for academics and other
professionals with David Canter and his book with Chris Winch, Reading,
Writing and Reasoning; a guide for students, now in its 26th year and third
edition, has been translated into both Portuguese and Chinese. Together we
co-authored Writing your Abstract: a guide for would-be conference
presenters and Reading at University: a guide for students, which has been
translated into both Chinese and Indonesian.
As teachers at every level from nursery school to postgraduate level we
have had a great deal of experience of facilitating the development of
writing, including academic and professional writing. Together we have
presented a number of workshops for developing academic writers and during
his time as Professor of Ethics and Language at Leeds Beckett University,
and in earlier posts as Professor of Education at Liverpool Hope and as
Professor of Professional Development at the University of Glamorgan, much
of Gavin's time was given over to such workshops both with colleagues and
students and at other institutions, including universities in Poland and in
the UK.
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are
not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or
subsistence.
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inter-disciplinary.net
Inter-Disciplinary.Net is accredited by the British Accreditation Council
for Independent Further and Higher Education as a Short Course Provider
Registered in England No: 05494488
Harvestway House, 28 High Street
Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6RA
Tel: 01993 882087
Please note: The inter-disciplinary.net office is open from 9.30am to
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- and we will endeavour to reply to you in a timely fashion.
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