Scholarship and Research Development: Writing for popular audiences

Session Outline

This workshop deals with issues around communicating your research for popular audiences. In particular the differences between research articles and news and online media are dealt with. The workshop involves practical writing tasks focused on writing texts such as micro-blogs, press-releases, newspaper articles, and websites. Participants will see how the audience and structure of news and online media can affect how research comes across.

Audience: Researchers, experienced or novice, staff or postgraduate, who are publishing research and wish to improve their skills at writing for popular audiences.

Mode of delivery: This is a workshop style event, requiring participants to work individually and in small groups, as well as to occasionally contribute to whole group discussions. Workshops are interactive and based on experiential and reflective learning models. The content is evidence based, drawing on linguistics, sociology and education research on research writing. All activities are practical and directly relevant to writing a research paper.

Presenter

Daniel Soule

The Research Writer

Currently living in Northern Ireland, Daniel focuses on creative writing. To date, he has published 3 novels and dozens of short stories as well as numerous non-fiction essays, reviews and poetry.

PhD & Monograph

Daniel obtained his PhD from the University of Glasgow. His thesis was a linguistic study of political campaigning in Scotland. Daniel researches the language of national identity; his most recent co-authored monograph is Political Discourse and National Identity in Scotland with Dr Murray Leith, published by Edinburgh University Press.

Experience in the field

Daniel has worked as a Publication Coordinator for an allied health research consortium in the West of Scotland as well as Lecturer in Academic Writing, in the Graduate School at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Where he is now

Currently living in Northern Ireland, Daniel now focuses on creative writing. To date, he has published 3 novels and dozens of short stories as well as a number of non-fiction essays, reviews and poetry.

Daniel writes speculative as well as literary fiction, both of which he thinks are tautologies, on account of the word ‘fiction’. It’s all literary and speculative, but people do love labels! You can find his work in magazines such as Number Eleven, The Incubator, Devolution Z, Phantaxis, Shoreline of Infinity, Storgy, The Dime Show Review and others.

To Book

Please email lta@uhi.ac.uk to book a place on this event.

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