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 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 2

Presentations Why are presentations important? What sort of presentations are involved during a research project? What are your feelings about giving a presentation? 3

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Best presentation I’ve seen… What made it so good? 5

‘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 6

Answering Questions ‘Good’ and ‘Poorer’ answers Easy and hard questions 7

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 8

Next time Second workshop on conference presentations –Making introductions –Breaking the fear barrier –Content design guidelines –Slide design guidelines Tuesday, 11 th May 2014 (same time, same place) 9