Mastering academic presentations

Target group: doctoral and postdoctoral researchers

Do you present your research? This seminar provides essential criteria for delivering excellent academic presentations. We will focus on your 10-15-minute talks, followed by high-level feedback and engaging exercises. Enhance your speaking style and prepare impactful presentations by sharing your expertise, varying your intro/outro, engaging your audience, and excelling in discussions. You may present your research using PowerPoint, a flipchart, a whiteboard, or any other necessary materials.

Optional follow-up session: Participants from the May 15 session can attend an additional, practice-oriented Zoom session on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. This session offers the opportunity to present again, incorporating feedback from the first session. If you are confirmed for the May 15 session, you are guaranteed a spot in the follow-up Zoom 'Coaching' session on May 27, as long as you register separately for it. Please note that the "Coaching" session will only take place if at least 10 participants have registered by April 30, 2025.

Objectives:

• Maintain audience attention from beginning to end

• Personalize your speech by connecting science with storytelling

• Translate complex data into meaningful messages

• Gain insights from outstanding science presentations in the 21st century

• Align your communication style with intercultural needs

• Benefit from quick content inputs and an interactive Q&A session

• Bonus for 2-day training: Optional video analysis, collaborative group work, and a second presentation opportunityand argument structure)

Requirements: A week before the training, you will receive a video, a PDF handout, and an online questionnaire. The workshop will be tailored to your needs, so please come prepared to deliver your academic presentation.

Facilitator: Dr. Stephen Wagner (science trainer, presentation coach, speaker)

Diese Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt. // This event will be held in English.

Anmeldung

If you would like to participate in this event and it is already marked as fully booked, you are welcome to join the waiting list. It often happens that registered participants cancel their attendance, which creates available spots. Free spots are allocated in the order of waiting list registrations. If spots become available within 72 hours before the event starts, we will notify several registrants simultaneously. These spots will then be allocated on a 'first come, first served' basis.