Dissemination of Research Through Storytelling: Sharing Scientific Work
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About this Event
Overview: Dissemination of research findings is critical to the adoption of evidence-supported interventions within specific settings of practice or community. It can, however, be challenging to effectively communicate these science-backed practices and behaviors to a broader audience. It is therefore important to utilize tools that have proven to be effective in attracting people’s attention, the oral tradition of telling a story that leaves a lasting impression for listeners.
The purpose of this session is to provide the basic tenets of storytelling as a tool for dissemination of research. As part of the Storytelling Seminar Series, this session will additionally act as the introduction for ICTR's offering of a subsequent skills-building workshop in the art of storytelling as a modality for disseminating research to a lay audience. This introductory session and the subsequent skills-building workshop are being offered to interested researchers and community stakeholders.
Co-sponsors: Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing’s PROMOTE Center and the Center of Innovative Care in Aging.
Target audience: The current series targets faculty, research staff, community members, and fellows interested in developing disseminate their research findings using storytelling.
Objectives :
- To introduce the core elements of storytelling;
- To elucidate the importance of language, particularly when conveying scientific work to a non-scientific audience;
- To discuss how to relate research to the real (i.e., not hypothetical, theoretical, or conceptual) circumstances of populations.
Interested in improving your story-telling skills?
Following this introductory session, ICTR will be offering a skills-building workshop for interested researchers and community partners of research teams.
Main objective of our subsequent storytelling skills building sessions is to learn and become comfortable with proven techniques to engage, maintain, and empower the audience while disseminating research. Specific schedule for the skills-building sessions will be announced separately. Please stay tuned!
Dr. David Olawuyi Fakunle is a self-described “mercenary for change,” willing to employ any talent and occupy any space to elevate anyone who feels divested from their truest self, particularly People of Color. David earned a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he is currently Associate Faculty in the Mental Health department and serves as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine. David’s research interests include stressors within the built environment, manifestations of institutional racism in society, and the utilization of arts and culture to strengthen health, equity, and ultimately liberation.
As an artist, David has utilized Black storytelling, African drumming, vocal and theater performance in the proclamation of truth for over 20 years. He has performed with many companies including the Sankofa Dance Theater, the Washington Revels Jubilee Voices, and WombWork Productions, where he is currently Executive Director. His affiliations include The National Great Blacks In Wax Museum, the National Association of Black Storytellers, where he is currently on the board of directors, and the Maryland State Arts Council. David is co-founder and CEO of DiscoverME/RecoverME, an organization that empowers narrative for personal and organizational growth through the African oral tradition. David also serves as Chair of the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the first state commission in the United States dedicated to chronicling and bringing justice to racial terror lynchings.