Presentation Skills Toolkit: Online Online
You've got interesting research to share, but is anyone listening?!
Presenting your research is an essential skills for a researcher, be it with your peers, at a major conference, or even to a room full of schoolchildren. This online toolkit covers a whole range of performance and presentation techniques for you to work through and incorporate into your presentations, in your own time. From crafting a story to handling the dreaded Q&A, there’s guaranteed to be something there to help you improve your presentations.
If you particularly struggle with the performance aspects of giving a presentation and don't feel comfortable talking in front of others, then you may also like to attend the Better Presentations workshop.
Outcomes:
- Understand how to create a compelling presentation
- Know some practical tips for giving an engaging performance
- Understand how to continue improving with each presentation
How to Access the Course
In order to enrol for the Presentation Skills Toolkit, you will need an enrolment key.
Please use the appropriate key for your School.
Life Sciences: PSLS-pst20
Physical Sciences and Technology: SPST-pst20
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: AHSS-pst20
You can access the course and enrol at the following link: https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=129841
All graduate students.
Postdoctoral researchers and research staff are welcome to use this resource, but may prefer to attend Postdocs: Effective Research Presentations, which is tailored specifically to the postdoctoral experience.
Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available here.
A Raven password is needed to access this online course.
If you don't already have one, visit: http://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/user-accounts-security/accounts-passwords/raven/raven-faqs/n5
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