Bridging the Gap: Communicating to Increase the Visibility and Impact of Your Academic Work
Erin Ryan
This paper focuses on how best to communicate your scholarly work to wider audiences. Topics covered include inter-, multi-, and trans-disciplinarity in academia: what are the differences between them, what are the benefits to your academic work, and how to learn from and leverage cross-disciplinary partnerships to boost your messaging. Using the communication theories of Systems Theory and Symbolic Interactionism as a framework, I discuss how best to approach communicating about your research to other disciplines and non-academic audiences. Examples include writing opinion/editorial pieces for mainstream media, networking with science communicators, and connecting with your university’s strategic communications officers. Full Text
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