Everything you don´t learn in the lab
Scientific posters: design and pitching
Topic area
Science communication
Format
Online or in-house workshop
Workload
3 webinars of 2-2.5 h each = 2 workshop days
Trainer
Karin Bodewits or Philipp Gramlich or Jo Richers or Marloes ten Kate
Target group
PhD students and postdocs
Description
Our workshop is about scientific poster presentations, their design, and how to present (pitch) them well.
An effective poster presentation requires a cleverly designed poster, appropriate use of language and special techniques in presenting. This course will give you the skills you need to create professional, attractive and high-impact posters and allow you to practice the communication skills required to make your research interesting and accessible to your audience.
In this course you´ll learn about:
- Your audience and their needs
- Crafting the ‘story’ of your poster
- Design posters – structures, layout, software, colours, lures, visual impact and best/ worst-practice examples
- Graphical abstracts
- How to present your data
- How to write an engaging abstract
- Dialogues & Q&A sessions
- The communication skills needed to make your research interesting and accessible to your audience
- Basic self-presentation skills – presenting yourself, your research and the poster
All participants receive a script of the course in PDF format for offline and future use so that they can work through the material offline as well as after the course.
This workshop can be combined with Oral presentations: Online and offline and Self-presentation and networking to give the integrated 3-5 day programme At the conference.
Interested to dive deeper into the topic of conference formats? You might be interested to read about our Research project: Conference formats.
Course Flow Online Workshops
Day 1
Live Webinar
- Kick-off
- What´s a successful conference?
- Individual and group course work (online and offline)
Day 2
Live Webinar
- Poster design
- Individual and group course work (online and offline)
Day 3
Live Webinar
- Poster pitching
- Individual and group course work (online and offline)
Weeks 2-3
Individual written or oral feedback from the instructorDo you want to see a preview of the Online Workshop?
Do you want to read more about this topic? Nicolas Rowe wrote a book about Academic & Scientific Poster Presentation.
A poster presentation is a very brief form of science communication. We´ve written the article The core of your presentation about this topic, published in Nachrichten aus der Chemie.