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Conference Presentations
Doctoral Training Workshops
Mark Gaved, Trevor Collins and Ann Jones
Lunch today
Slides and notes will be on website on programme webpage
Overview
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Presentations – why bother
Characteristics of worst and best presentations
Discuss an example presentation [DVD]
How to answer questions well (and badly) [DVD]
Next time: More on techniques, tips and tricks
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Presentations
• Why are
presentations
important?
• What sort of
presentations are
involved during a
research project?
• What are your
feelings about giving
a presentation?
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Source: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=847
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Best presentation I’ve seen…
• What made it so good?
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‘Model’ Lecture DVD
• A ‘Bad’ lecture and discussion
• DVD also includes an ‘OK’ lecture
• There is also an alternative half-hour video on the
Research Degrees Skills site covering similar points:
– Research Training Videos
• http://rdskills.open.ac.uk/static_page.php?page=52
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Answering Questions
• ‘Good’ and ‘Poorer’ answers
• Easy and hard questions
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Answering Questions
• Difficult/confused questions (DVD Marian Petre)
– Have a dialogue with the questioner to clarify the
question/break it down
– Person asking the question may have got the wrong
end of the stick – try to clarify this through dialogue
– Offer to check things out and admit mistakes
– Planting questions? (probably not a good idea)
– Questions may be about limitations / why not
approached differently – will need to justify
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Next time
• Second workshop on conference presentations
– Making introductions
– Breaking the fear barrier
– Content design guidelines
– Slide design guidelines
• Tuesday, 11th May 2014 (same time, same place)
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