Scientific Posters: design and pitching

An effective poster presentation requires a cleverly designed poster, appropriate use of language and special techniques in presenting. This course will give you the skills you need to create professional, attractive and high-impact posters and allow you to practice the communication skills required to make your research interesting and accessible to your audience.

General information

Course Flow Online Workshops
Day 1
Live Webinar
  • Kick-off
  • What´s a successful conference
Day 2
Live Webinar
  • Poster design
Day 3
Live Webinar
  • Poster pitching
Weeks 2-3
Individual written or oral feedback from the instructor
PhD students
In this course you´ll learn about:
  • Your audience and their needs
  • Crafting the ‘story’ of your poster
  • Design posters – structures, layout, software, colours, lures, visual impact and best/worst-practice examples
  • Graphical abstracts
  • How to present your data
  • How to write an engaging abstract
  • Dialogues and Q&A sessions
  • The communication skills needed to make your research interesting and accessible to your audience
  • Basic self-presentation skills – presenting yourself, your research and the poster
All participants receive a script of the course in PDF format for offline and future use so that they can work through the material offline as well as after the course.
ECTS: 1.0. PhD students of the Life Science Zurich Graduate School have priority. External students can register to the waiting list and will be accepted if the course is not fully booked.

Dates

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