Teacher: Prof. Timo Roettger (simplpoints.com)
Researchers often communicate their ideas and arguments by presenting their work in front of an audience. Be it in the classroom or at a conference, you try to bring your point across by a verbal delivery and a slide show. Slide design is thus an essential skill for becoming a successful researcher and teacher. A well-designed slide show helps you achieve your communicative goals; a badly designed slide deck can lead to confusion and a break down in communication.
In “Better Presentations for Researchers”, we will discuss core design principles that help you communicate effectively, make the audience notice and care, and help them understand and remember. We will learn to reduce ‘noise’, i.e. elements on your slides that do not contribute to your communication intention, and amplify ‘signal’, i.e. elements that support and enhance what really matters.
A good presentation can be an impactful way to communicate a scientific idea and impact decision makers at all levels. Becoming a skillful presenter will raise your profile as an educator, researcher, and science communicator. Beyond improving your communication, preparation techniques for presentations can also increase efficiency and save you valuable time.
Sign up for the course, the registration opens at noon, 20 September.