Presenting Skills
Public speaking is an important skill. Our support is intended to help postdocs and fellows approach their research talks flexibly, and to any audience.
Presenting Your Research to Any Audience
This presentation workshop builds on skills developed through those initial academic presentations in one’s career, typically to academic audiences, and teaches participants how to present about their work to different audiences.
This workshop will...
improve your ability to communicate your research through in-person presentations. It will help you to reflect systematically about your presenting skills, and provide ways to improve every aspect. The workshop includes a section on designing data representations and research results to achieve maximum impact, and an introduction to storytelling techniques.
It will be delivered in an interactive and participatory style, combining discussion, reflection and activity-based approaches.
This course will run in support of the Postdoc Conference, and will include bespoke coaching for those presenting at the conference.
More Information & Booking
After this course you will know how to:
- Evaluate your presentation skills systematically and improve each area
- Create presentations for different audiences
- Use information design, storytelling, humour and slides as appropriate
To book on to Presenting Your Research to ANY Audience, visit CPD-Training
Stand-up Comedy Presentation Training
Looking to develop your presentation skills and confidence?
Join us to learn how to become HILARIOUS about your work, and craft a stand-up comedy set about it.
After this experience, you will be better able to:
- construct engaging narratives about your research
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talk about your research to almost any audience in almost any context
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speak publicly with more confidence
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perform a short stand-up set in front of a small audience
More Information & Booking
To book on to Postdoc Comedy Night Training, visit CPD-Training
Both workshops facilitated by
Dr Steve Cross, a freelance public engagement consultant, Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow and former Head of Public Engagement at University College London. Steve has over 10 years’ experience in public engagement and specialises in supporting researchers to engage with diverse communities.
This course gave me the confidence to explain scientific concepts in my own way, with my own flow and words. You’d be amazed at how enthusiastic people can be about your science when you communicate in a fun and engaging way!— Dr Gerard Hernandez (Blizard Institute), Postdoc Comedy Night (2023)
I would say the live performance has really helped coping with the fear and stress of a presentation.— Dr Nathaniel Mon Pere (School of Mathematical Sciences), Postdoc Comedy Night (2023)
