“Tell us about your research”
Where:
Academic: in class presentation, department workshops, conference( keynote, paper, poster, roundtable), job talk, guest lectures
Non-academic: interviews on the radio, tv, podcast, youtube
Format
“Some academic talks operates as the dialogue”
Time:
Send the email to ask the organizer regarding the time
Giving good talk:
- Organised, Accessible and effective (engaging)
Planning the good talk:
- Talk about your research, results and conclusion. (not others)
- Structure(talk-section: introduction, background, research goals, study design, overall, findings, discussion and thanks)
Results: p.272 (results)
- State your point
- Describe the pattern or analysis in the data that supports your point
- Introduce and explain an illustrative quote/table/figure
Giving good talk
- Examples: Three Minute Thesis
- Preparation: writing out
- Structure: avoid the rambling
· Write your talk like you’d say it
· Aim for a hundred words per minute
· Print it out in fourteen-point font or bigger
· Practice it aloud
· Keep practice until you are confident
· Try to stays eyes-up as much as possible
“As you Practice, try out different ways to organise your ideas and transition smoothly between them. Then script the one that works best”
Nerves: looking the nodding people(nodder)
Audiences and Accessibility
Mastering the Q&A
-Know your data well
-Anticipate potential question
-Prompt specific question
-Always be ready for questions about mechanisms
-Reflect the implication: explain in your case/data/method
-Limits of data
-Limits of your knowledge
- Try your best to answer the questions
- Honest
- This note was initially written for the presentation in the book club on 14th July 2021.
Resource
CALAR, J. M. 2020. A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum (Skills for Scholars), Princeton University Press
