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Practice communicating your research!
What's it all about?
Communicating well as a researcher is essential, not optional. It is part of being a professional in any field. Without good oral communication skills, your PhD training is unlikely to be impressive to others. So, ask yourself these questions:
- do you want greater presentation exposure, beyond your immediate peer group?
- do you want your research and the institution to be remembered in a very positive way?
- do you want some feedback from expert presenters and from other research students to enhance your presentation performance in the future?
- do you want to come to a specialist and exclusive presentation forum and have the chance to win a monthly prize?
If you answer “yes” to the above questions, then you should sign up for this session– a monthly presentation forum exclusively for doctoral students, with feedback from panel chairs. In this safe, inclusive and highly supportive and encouraging environment, you will have the opportunity to present your research for eight minutes only, with two minutes for feedback. The panel will keep you strictly to time!
How can I attend?
The sessions will run for a few hours every month and there will be plenty of chances for informal networking. The researcher who is deemed to have given the best presentation per session (based on both research student and staff feedback through the use of form), will receive a gift voucher, and, with consent, have their name published in the next Researcher Development newsletter and on our website.
So, if you are keen to enhance your presentation skills in a serious way, and are not afraid to get some honest (but always polite!) feedback, then you should come along to this event!
Please use the 'online booking system' to see when the next session is running and book your place!
Guidance for Contributors
- The session can accommodate up to eight research students every month.
- One week before the event, you must submit the title of your presentation to the Researcher Development team.
- You will receive feedback from both the expert panel, and other research students through the use of a form – feedback will not be public – and you will have the chance to digest comments afterwards privately. So, in addition to presenting, you will also be expected to critically evaluate the presentation skills of other research students.
- You will be given just eight minutes to present and two minutes for questions. You will be given a sign of when you have just one minute remaining, and you will be asked to stop at eight minutes by the chair.
- We request that all research students present using PowerPoint – the industry standard for presentations.
- Research students are reminded of the workshops that they have already attended and the detailed guidance that has already been provided in these sessions. We expect you to put this training into practice!
- We expect all research students attending to work with other students and staff in a positive and encouraging way.
