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Description
Interdisciplinary collaborations are often the most efficient route to managing complex research questions because they are integrative and benefit from collective expertise. However, such research requires effective communication across boundaries. Collaborators often have vastly different approaches to research design and methodology, and different technical vocabularies and communication cultures.
Successful communication in interdisciplinary settings requires the ability to express your research in ways that are clear and understandable to others outside of your discipline or expertise. With a few fundamental strategies for communication and presentation it is possible to illustrate complex information in a context relevant way, to convince others, to win supporters and thus reach the respectively set goals.
In this workshop the participants sharpen their personal communication strategies to engage in constructive collaborations in interdisciplinary settings. The workshop contents include:
- Communication & presentation basics: Clear goals und a thorough preparation
- Go public – go scientific! Coordinating the joint effort
- Everything under control? Dealing with difficult situations
- Interdisciplinary cooperation: My next steps
