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1 Making the most of your conference poster Dr Krystyna Haq Graduate Education Officer Graduate Research School

2 Why present a conference poster?

3 communicate a message (your research) reach a large number of people (potentially) obtain feedback become known network

4 Challenges faced being noticed given lots of other posters many competing distractions including food and drink time slot format of a poster session communicating effectively with this medium (visual rather than written)

5 Some practical things to consider size of allocated space portability of poster ease of assembly ease of attachment to poster board additional resources (handouts, models, samples, animations etc)? should you include your photo?

6 Some key considerations when designing your poster it’s about your audience and not about you your poster is a visual form of communication – layout given size and shape of poster - balance of text and graphics - can text be replaced by graphics? people usually spend little time in front of a poster most posters are viewed from a distance of at least 1.5m away

7 Therefore: design poster to be easily seen and easily scanned by eye focus on the central question and take-home message (use and repeat key words) aim to limit text to 350 words use bullets points not sentences use simple and clear but appropriate language

8 Evaluating some posters

9 Some Tips: layout Title should be across the whole width of the poster organise text/graphics in “eye-sized” chunks columns and text boxes 2 columns for a “portrait” oriented poster 3 columns for a “landscape” oriented poster the order of reading should be down columns rather than across rows

10 Some Tips: fonts Use no more than 3 different fonts (usually 2) In general use sans serif fonts Arial is good for titles and for axis labels Century Gothic or Avante Garde are good for text Times or Times New Roman don’t enlarge well, so don’t use Serif fonts that are OK for text are Palatino, Bookman or Courier

11 Some Tips: fonts Main text: at least 36 point Sub-headings: 48 point Title: 120-200 point Graphs: 24-26 point Acknowledgements: 24 point Restrict boldface to title or headings Do not underline

12 Some Tips: colour Choose colours wisely Don’t let use of colour or your background detract from the message Do not combine either primary colours or complementary colours primary = red, green, blue complementary = cyan, magenta, yellow, black (except yellow on black) Choose light rather than dark colours

13 Some Tips: text boxes if you put text in a coloured box, make sure there is a text-free border of colour around the text to increase readability default margins inside textboxes are not wide enough in Powerpoint increase internal margin through format, textbox, internal margin menu

14 Scientific posters need to effectively communicate the research may require more text than other types of posters but omit much of the detail that would go into a paper (use handouts to elaborate)

15 Scientific posters: content Title - enticing but short (question?) Background – justification for study Objectives – purpose of study Methods Results – usually use figures rather than tables; if used, tables should be simple Conclusions Scanning from top left to bottom right

16 Software issues Powerpoint commonly used but not necessarily the best package sometimes has memory problems and omits bits (copy into Corel Draw and save as Tif) print out poster as a pdf file before final printing to check layout and see if everything is there

17 Most importantly give yourself enough time to experiment with different layouts give yourself enough time to get feedback from a variety of other people use the poster checklist to help you modify drafts of your poster

18 Most importantly proofread a printed copy before the final print pin up an A3 sized copy and walk past it eliminate unnecessary detail check spelling and grammar AGAIN before printing

19 References and additional resources 1. Advice on designing scientific posters and link to a poster template in Powerpoint. This template will prompt you if the amount of white space in the poster decreases below 35%. http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm Accessed 26th October 2007. http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm 2. Effective Poster Presentations on-line tutorial http://www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/effective.html 3. How to Prepare a Poster http://www.siam.org/meetings/guidelines/poster.php 4. Online journal for Scientific and Medical Posters http://eposters.net You can view a large number of posters at this site, and submit your own posters to it. You may also use this site to obtain feedback on your poster. 6. http://phdposters.com/gallery.php displays a number of PhD posters and includes some evaluative commentaryhttp://phdposters.com/gallery.php

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