Narrative Tools for Researchers

This course on Narrative Tools for Researchers explains how to use narrative techniques to help you communicate your research to the scientific community in an effective, compelling and memorable way. In this course, you will discover why narrative is such a powerful tool for communication, how good use of narrative can benefit you and your research at every stage of your career, and how to create, combine and refine narrative elements to make your research clear, memorable and persuasive in many different contexts - from talks and papers to grant and job applications.

What you’ll learn

• The benefits of using a compelling story to communicate your research to your peers and stakeholders, such as funders or industry partners
• How to build and combine different narrative elements that can help you create a more compelling scientific story
• How to tailor the details of your story according to the needs and expectations of your audience
• How to refine your story by soliciting feedback and implementing edits

Features

• 3-module course
• Certificate of completion
• Benefit from the experience of 10 experts on using narrative tools to communicate scientific research more effectively
• English language captions and transcripts