PhD Workshop 2011: Presenting Research to Different Types of Audience
Please feel free to post discusssions, questions and comments related to the event on the forum.
This was a superb course for writing up and finishing PhD students. It was excellently delivered, with hands-on and intensive support from the AQMeN team and very well organised. This is definitley a course I will be highly recommending to other PhDs in my department and beyond. I don't think there is a course offered like this elsewhere so very valuable learning and I could immediately apply what I learned over these 3 days. The funders must acknowledge this!
Please feel free to share ideas and comments on the draft programme for the follow-up event (17th August) with those who attended.
I fully agree with earlier comments on the value of that event - well done for scheduling and I hope something similar can be put on in the future.
A thought on the programme for 17th August:
- perhaps some time could be set aside to discuss/critique abstracts and proposals for presentations? This was something that was in the original programme bad had to be dropped because we spent longer on other aspects ( at least I think it was only briefly covered when others were preparing their final presentations)
- Exercise 1 - may be a bit limited in that there hasn't necessarily been time to USE presentation skills much between May and August?
- Exercise 2 sounds v good but depending on structure this may need more time if we are to include feedback from peers. Will there be clips or previews of presentations to structure comment ... and to tie in with exercise 3 (stimulated recall)?
Questions were asked on the day - could they be 'extracted' for discussion here and in Exercise 3?
- Exercise 3 again sounds very useful but if videoing and reviewing evidence can all of that be contained within 1 hour? Just thinking back to our sessions in May when it was very useful to review the short clips with Rob without unnecessarily rushing.
- Exercise 4 overlaps with feedback already provided and comes over as a bit contrived(?) to run it like that. Could a set of new questions, based on feedback already submitted, be circulated to get presentations or comments on aspects that the team wish to probe further; might be a way of getting deeper views rather than a repeat of what has been said before?
On that front, can we access our own evaluations again - to remind us of what was already submitted??
This event was absolutely wonderful and I would definitely recommend it for PhD students if you get the chance to do it next year! It might seem like a bit time commitment (3 days) but it is worth every minute!