REGARD Workshop: Confident research presentations
Event details
| Date | 09.03.2017 |
| Hour | 09:00 › 17:00 |
| Speaker | Siara Isaac, Teaching Support Centre, EPFL |
| Location |
University of Lausanne
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| Category | Internal trainings |
Description and objectives
This participative workshop is designed to support participants in becoming excellent speakers. Specifically, it will assist you with:
Effectively employing verbal and non-verbal skills for two-directional communication
Conveying more confidence and assurance
Preparing for questions
Designing presentations to support a clear, memorable take-away message
Identifying a few key areas for you to improve your presentation skills
Approach
Participants will work individually and in small groups on a variety of reflective and practical exercises designed to assist them in transferring the skills to their own presentations. Particular emphasis has been made to make the workshop relevant for science. Each participant will give a five-minute presentation on her research, or an aspect of her work, which will be video recorded. Constructive, individual feedback is a collaborative product of the group.
Target audience
Female PhD students & Postdocs
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Registration & Participation fee
Participation is free for members of partner institutions.
Registration is done online and opens 6 weeks before the course begins: www.unifr.ch/regard
The REGARD programme is addressed to young female academics of the next generation and for women professors of the universities of French-speaking Switzerland, HES-SO and EPFL. The REGARD programme is organized by the gender equality offices those institutions.
The objective of the REGARD program is to develop skills and offer concrete tools for career management and supervision. These workshops also create spaces for discussion and exchange of experiences among researchers. They also aim to increase awareness of gender equality issues in academic careers.
This participative workshop is designed to support participants in becoming excellent speakers. Specifically, it will assist you with:
Effectively employing verbal and non-verbal skills for two-directional communication
Conveying more confidence and assurance
Preparing for questions
Designing presentations to support a clear, memorable take-away message
Identifying a few key areas for you to improve your presentation skills
Approach
Participants will work individually and in small groups on a variety of reflective and practical exercises designed to assist them in transferring the skills to their own presentations. Particular emphasis has been made to make the workshop relevant for science. Each participant will give a five-minute presentation on her research, or an aspect of her work, which will be video recorded. Constructive, individual feedback is a collaborative product of the group.
Target audience
Female PhD students & Postdocs
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Registration & Participation fee
Participation is free for members of partner institutions.
Registration is done online and opens 6 weeks before the course begins: www.unifr.ch/regard
The REGARD programme is addressed to young female academics of the next generation and for women professors of the universities of French-speaking Switzerland, HES-SO and EPFL. The REGARD programme is organized by the gender equality offices those institutions.
The objective of the REGARD program is to develop skills and offer concrete tools for career management and supervision. These workshops also create spaces for discussion and exchange of experiences among researchers. They also aim to increase awareness of gender equality issues in academic careers.
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Practical information
- Informed public
- Registration required