Science communication

Help with research projects in the Research Catalogue

If you need help registering a new research project in the Research Catalogue or need to update a current project with new information, please contact Håkan Soold. Email hakan.soold@su.se

Help with promoting and communicating you research

If you are interested in publicity for your research and need help with promoting and communicating your findings, our communicator Håkan Soold is happy to assist you. Please contact Håkan as soon you´ve got notice of a paper that is scheduled for publication or at least when a new paper is published. Email hakan.soold@su.se

Here´s a few guidelines to help with the procedure. This is a shorter website version of “Guidelines for promoting and communicating your research” which you find as a pdf below. You´ll also find a pdf of “A few guidelines on writing popular science”. Both documents are also available in a folder called “Research communication” on our folder X on the server.

In order for Håkan to help you promoting and communicating your research results, be it an article or a press release, he would need some kind of document that summarizes the most important things that need to be communicated. Something that would be a basis for a news story or a press release. I have three different options as for how we can achieve that, where you as a researcher can choose the one that suits you best, the one that you feel most comfortable with:

1) Håkan will interview you on site at the institution. It usually takes half an hour up to an hour.

2) Håkan will interview you via Zoom or telephone. It also usually takes half an hour up to an hour.

3) You write a short popular science summary of the main findings of your research and send it to me – which after that will be complemented with a few interview questions from me, on site at the institution, via Zoom, phone or email.

There is also a fourth option if you already have an article published – or if you are a PhD student who will soon defend your thesis and have an abstract ready – then, based on the information I have, I can write a draft for a story and send to for consideration. This method has proved to be the most efficient one.

Then Håkan writes the article.

• Regardless of which option you choose, the following points are good to keep in mind:
• You will of course, if you wish, receive my questions before the interview – so you can prepare yourself. This, of course, also goes for option 3 above.
• You will of course get a chance to read and approve the article before it is published.
• The news criteria I list below are good to keep in mind, whether you choose option 1, 2 or 3.

In order for you to prepare yourself for communicating your research results , it is also a good thing if you check the document “Guidelines on writing popular science” that you also find here below, as well as in the folder "Research communication" on the server. In the document I briefly point out the most important things to think about as for popular science communication.

Guidelines for promoting and communicating your research pdf, 36.6 kB.

A few guidelines on writing popular science pdf, 26.3 kB.

For matters concerning popular science, research news articles and press releases, please contact our communicator Håkan Soold. Email hakan.soold@su.se