1. Presentation Skills Doctoral Training Workshops Trevor Collins and Mark Gaved Lunch today Slides and notes will be on website on programme webpage

2. 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

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

4. Worst presentation I’ve seen… What made it so bad? 4 Source: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=847

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

6. ‘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 (link off home page i.e. http://rdskills.open.ac.uk/static_page.php?page=52) http://rdskills.open.ac.uk/static_page.php?page=52 6

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

8. Answering Questions Difficult/confused questions (pg 262 - audio interview) –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 –Questions may be about limitations or alternate approaches, you will need to justify your choices 8

9. Next time Second workshop on conference presentations –Making introductions –Breaking the fear barrier –Content design guidelines –Slide design guidelines Date: Tuesday, 28 th April 2015 Time: 10:45am to 1pm Place: Venables S0049 (System’s Seminar Room) 9