Title of your doctorate Faculty / School name Your Name Here Supervisory Panel Current Year Thanks to Sponsors, research partners etc

In 20 minutes this presentation will cover the: Background and problem statement Hypothesis, goals and objectives Methods Key findings Discussion Contribution of research to knowledge Publishing of research Outline

Should be able to get onto one slide as a maximum The literature says... The main problem being researched was that... Background and problem statement

One slide It was hypothesised that... There were three main objectives: Hypothesis, goals and objectives

One slide Methodology Specific methods and why chosen Methods

2-3 slides 1-2 key graphs or tables that then relate to discussion and contribution to knowledge Some key text outlining the major findings in bullet point form Key findings

One slide The research findings indicate that... The literature on... should be amended to show that... A new theory on... Discussion

Two slides key contributions 2.This is the first research to show that... I have developed a new technique for... Contribution of research to knowledge

I have published … I have... pending publications... Further plans for publishing this research involve... Publishing of research

To illustrate your presentation You can use photos on a slide with bullet points or plain text The picture should be placed to the right of the bullets It should have a white frame (apply the ‘simple frame, white’ from the automatic styles in the picture menu)

Or you can use a single photo by itself

Place tables or graphs in a white frame

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