Advancing your Scientific Presentations
For researchers in the natural sciences who want to improve the quality of their peer-to-peer scientific presentations with both virtual and face-to-face audiences
10 experts who excel at presenting their work, including renowned presentation designers, and trainers and experts in narrative tools
10 hours of learning
15-minute lessons
4-module course with course certificate
About this course
'Advancing Your Scientific Presentations' teaches you how to create more memorable and engaging presentations to your scientific peers. In the course, you will discover how you can develop your research story - the foundation of your presentation - using narrative tools, how to build a slide deck that supports and enhances your presentation, and how to prepare to deliver your presentation on the day.
What you'll learn
- To identify techniques that can help to overcome the challenges that researchers commonly face when creating and delivering oral presentations
- To build compelling research stories to use as the foundation for your presentations
- To create professional slide decks that effectively communicate your research findings to your audience
- To apply strategies to help you deliver your presentation effectively on the day, in both virtual and face-to-face environments
The course
Free Sample
Overcoming your research presentation challenges
5 lessons 2h
Free Sample
Developing the story behind your talk
7 lessons 2h 30m
Free Sample
Building an engaging slide deck
7 lessons 2h 30m
Free Sample
Preparing and navigating your talk
7 lessons 3h
Free Sample
Advancing Your Scientific Presentations: Free Sample - section
4 lessons 1h
Developed with expert academics and professionals
This course benefits from the insights of experts with a wide range of experience, including:
- Delivering compelling presentations to audiences of scientific peers
- Using narrative techniques when communicating research
- Designing slide decks to support and enhance presentations
- Training researchers how to deliver scientific presentations in a clear and engaging manner
Meet the expert panel that have helped shape and refine the content of the course:
Advice from experienced researchers
The course has additional insights through video interviews from:
Feedback from course users
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