Presenting Your Research to Any Audience
This presentation workshop builds on skills developed through those initial academic presentations in one’s career, typically to academic audiences, and teaches participants how to present about their work to different audiences.
This workshop will...
improve your ability to communicate your research through in-person presentations. It will help you to reflect systematically about your presenting skills, and provide ways to improve every aspect. The workshop includes a section on designing data representations and research results to achieve maximum impact, and an introduction to storytelling techniques.
It will be delivered in an interactive and participatory style, combining discussion, reflection and activity-based approaches.
You will get an opportunity to develop your own short talk and if you wish, you will get the opportunity to present to a live audience at The Postdoc Showcase. Participants will be coached 1-to-1 from the workshop to the Showcase to prepare you for that event.
More Information & Booking
After this course you will know how to:
- Evaluate your presentation skills systematically and improve each area
- Create presentations for different audiences
- Use information design, storytelling, humour and slides as appropriate
You can develop your own short talk and test it on a live audience of your peers at the Postdoc Showcase.
To book on to Presenting Your Research to ANY Audience, visit CPD-Training
Presentation Style and Genre (including comedy)
The Postdoc Showcase
This event runs 3-4 weeks after the workshop at one of the Queen Mary campus small venues and features participants as speakers. It's an opportunity for postdocs to come together to hear a little about each other's work and meet with their peers from across the University.
For information on the next Postdoc Showcase,
visit CPD-Training for dates and to book your place to attend.
Trainer information
Dr Steve Cross, a freelance public engagement consultant, Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow and former Head of Public Engagement at University College London. Steve has over 10 years’ experience in public engagement and specialises in supporting researchers to engage with diverse communities.
This course gave me the confidence to explain scientific concepts in my own way, with my own flow and words. You’d be amazed at how enthusiastic people can be about your science when you communicate in a fun and engaging way!— Dr Gerard Hernandez (Blizard Institute), Postdoc Comedy Night (2023)
I would say the live performance has really helped coping with the fear and stress of a presentation.— Dr Nathaniel Mon Pere (School of Mathematical Sciences), Postdoc Comedy Night (2023)
