Description
Pre-requisites
None
Overall aim of course
The aim of this workshop is to support participants in considering their
own presentation skills, how they may want to develop as a presenter in
the future and how they are going to do it, with a particular focus on
effective research seminar and conference presentations. What do you
want to achieve with presentation and how are you going to achieve it?
Outcomes and benefits
Effectively presenting your research is a key tool for a research career
and indeed effective presentation of ideas is key for whatever career
path you choose. Having the ideas is of paramount importance in the
first instance, but if you can’t get others to understand your ideas
then it can be difficult to make progress. Seminars and conferences
provide great opportunities for others in your research community to see
your work and provide you with an opportunity to make connections and
improve your research. The workshop looks to explore how you want to
improve your presentation skills and how you can do it in order to get
the most of your future presentation opportunities.
The session will cover:
• What is a bad presentation? What is a good presentation?
• Determining the different purposes of presentations. Why present?
Why not just write the paper?
• Taking account of the venue
• Presentation, structures, content, pace and timing
• Prioritising what you have to say
• Providing an opening to your presentation that engages the
audience
• Pitching at the right level
• Vary activities and understand audio-visual considerations
• Verbal and non-verbal aspects
• Interacting and developing rapport with the audience
• Dealing with the ‘Question and answer’ session after a
presentation
Format of the session
The session will include group work, discussion and presentations
Tutor: Dr. Tony Bromley is responsible for the Graduate Training and
Support Centre in the Staff and Departmental Development Unit. He is an
experienced researcher and a PhD graduate of the University of Leeds. He
has been delivering and running programmes of training and development
activity for researchers for ten years firstly at the University of
Manchester before rejoining the University of Leeds in 2006. He has
presented to wide ranging audiences from international research
conferences to key note presentations at national policy fora and from
departmental research group seminars to science schools liaison activity
with local high schools.
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