The Norwegian Research School of Global Health has the pleasure of inviting you to a writing workshop co-arranged with one of Norway’s leading newspapers, Aftenposten.

When

27-28 April 2021 (9-12 both days)

Learning outcome

• How to reach a broad audience
• How to communicate your research results
• How to use your research to take part in the public debate
• How the debate sections in the biggest newspaper work and how they choose which contributions to publish

Purpose

The course focuses on writing op-eds and other debate articles

Course instructor

Erik Tornes, editor for debate in Nowegian newspaper Aftenposten            

Preparations

The course participants will submit a draft op-ed piece (4000-6000 characters) ten days before the course. The participants will receive feedback on the texts during the course. Our goal is that every participant will end up with a published text.

For a good description on how to write a good op-ed, click here.

Tentativt program

• Tuesday 27 April: (9-12)

09.00-9.15: Welcome by the research school
09.15-10.00: Introduction by Aftenposten. How do the debate section work and what are they looking for when assessing op-eds?
10.00-10.15: Break
10.15-11.00: The participants read each other’s texts
11.00-11.15: Break
11.15-12.00: The participants read and comment each other’s texts

• Wednesday 28 April: (9-12)

09.00-09.15: Welcome day 2, quick recap from day 1
09.15-10.00: The participants continue to comment each other’s texts
10.00-10.15: Break
10.15-11.00: The participants continue to comment each other’s texts
11.00-11.15: Break
11.15-11:45: Johanne Sundby: how to share your own research and voice your opinion
11.45-12.00: Wrap-up

Registration - closed, maybe orgenized next year.

Deadline: Friday 9 April