Science and Knowledge Translation

Code:

GG02

Acronym:

CTC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Geriatrics
OFICIAL	Gerontology

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Behavioural Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Gerontology and Geriatrics

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PDGG	6	Oficial Plan 2018	1	-	12	48	324

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The main goals are:

• Discuss the importance of science communication in the life and health science area;
• Define the different modes of science communication in modern era;
• Teach how to elaborate a poster;
• Explain the different ways to obtain visual support for an oral communication;
• explore the oral communication dimensions: verbal, gestural, facial and body languages;
• Discuss about the modern modes of communication science: forums, blogs, journalistic media, social media;
• Stimulate auto-reflection as science communicators.
• Define scientific paper;
• Clarify about the different papers’ types;
• Explain the structure of both original and review papers;
• Elucidate about submission process, editorial process and paper peer review;
• Explore the motivations and frustrations of the paper publishing process;
• Discuss about the publication impact and its future.

Learning outcomes and competences

In the end students must show knowledge and skills about:

• the importance of science communication;
• scientific writing versus scientific divulgation;
• the importance of carrying out an exhaustive bibliographic research as a fundamental process in scientific building;
• the ethic and legal issues of scientific writing: data distortion, plagiarism, copyright and authorship;
• the good practices of poster elaboration;
• oral communication structure;
• oral communication technique;
• science communication in digital sphere;
• the features and specificities of scientific writing;
• different types of scientific papers;
• the editorial process: journal selection; paper submission; communication with editors and reviewers;
• the alternative indices to the impact factor, their importance, utility and limitations.

 In the end students must show ability to:

• carry out a bibliographic research;
• make a poster;
• make the visual support for an oral communication;
• communicate orally the scientific results;
• write scientific paper according to IMRaD model: Introduction; Material and Methods;
• Results and Discussion;
• choose correctly the paper components: title; abstract; graphical abstract; keywords; highlights, acknowledgments and supplementary material;
• write a review paper;
• use the style and grammar of scientific writing: the write basic rules; style, syntax and grammar; numbers and abbreviations, bibliographic references;
• evaluate the impact factor and relative importance of the journals within a scientific area.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Introduction

• Science communication history and social context in life and health science area
• Public science communication definition
• Scienti­fic literacy
• Importance of science communication in actuality
• Contemporary elements of communication
• Ethical and legal questions
• Data distortion:

1. Plagiarism
2. Copyright
3. Authorship

Bibliographic Research

• Simple research
• Advanced research
• Archive items
• Send items to EndNote
• Research by citation
• Research by author and affiliation
• Search results analysis
• Alert creation
• Obtain integral text of the papers
• The UPorto and b-on publications
• The open access publications
• Other forms to obtain publications

Elaboration and presentation of a poster

• Audience analysis
• Poster as “illustrated abstract”
• Poster structure
• Appealing elements of the poster
• Software available - create a poster
• How present a poster?

 Elaboration and presentation of an oral communication

• Audience analysis
• Oral communication structure
• Create an oral communication
• Software available - oral communication
• Oral presentation techniques
• The presentation day

 Other Modes of Science Communication

• A brief expedition to virtual world

Scientific writing - Introduction

• Definition and general characteristics of a scientific paper
• Scientific paper types
• The importance of publishing papers
• The publishing rewards
• How a scientific paper can help planning and executing a scientific project
• Scientific writing: ready for the journey?
• What is a good scientific paper?

 

Scientific writing

• The ABC of good writing
• The ABC of scientific writing: Be precise
• The ABC of scientific writing: have synthesis power
• The ABC of scientific writing: Be clear

 

Style and grammar

• Writing basic rules
• Style, syntax and grammar
• Numbers and abbreviations
• Manuscript review

 

Writing an original paper

• Structure of an original paper
• The title: paper visit card
• The abstract: essential information
• The graphical abstract: 1 image is more than 1000 words
• Keywords: how my paper can be found?
• Highlights: stop and read
• The introduction: my study background
• The methods: what we do?
• The results: what we found?
• Discussion: what our results mean?
• The conclusion: past, present and future
• The references
• Acknowledgments
• Financial support
• Conflict of interest

 

Write a review paper

• Review paper definition
• What is a good review paper?
• Outline for a good review paper
• Review paper structure

 

Publishing a paper

• Choose the best journal
• The target audience, language and open access
• The impact factor
• Prepare a paper for submission
• The submission letter
• The validation
• On-line submission
• The editorial process
• The peer review process
• The editorial decision
• Answering to the reviewers
• The ethical aspects of scientific publication
• Authorship: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors criteria.

Mandatory literature

Davis, M., Davis, K. J., & Dunagan, M.; Scientific papers and presentations, , 2012. ISBN: Academic Press
Gastel, B., & Day, R. A. ; How to write and publish a scientific paper, ABC-CLIO, 2016
Alex Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Greg Bernarda e Alan Smith; Criar propostas de valor, D. Quixote, 2015
Tim Clark, Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur; Modelo de Negócio – EU, D. Quixote, 2016

Complementary Bibliography

Jamieson, K. H., Kahan, D., & Scheufele, D. A. ; The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication, , Oxford University Press, 2017
Matthews, J. R., & Matthews, R. W. ; Successful scientific writing: a step-by-step guide for the biological and medical sciences., , Cambridge University Press, 2014
Klaus Schwab; A Quarta Revolução Industrial., Forum Economic Forum Levoir, 2018

Teaching methods and learning activities

• Expositive sessions, some of which lectured by guests.


• Classroom exercises.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	40,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Participação presencial	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	48,00
Estudo autónomo	276,00
Total:	324,00

Eligibility for exams

Attendance of a minimum of three quarters of all classes implemented.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification is the following weighted average:

Note the scientific project x 0.40 + Note the written work x 0.40 + Participation x 0.20