Engage, Inform, Inspire: Presentation Skills for Natural and Life Sciences

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We aim for you to turn your talks into enjoyable experiences and for you to stand out with excellent presentation skills.
At the end of this training you will be able to:

• craft a clear message
• apply the principles of storytelling to scientific presentations
• create effective slides
• use slides productively during your talks
• manage your stress before and during a presentation
• project confidence and competence
• reliably engage your audience

Kursinhalte

Distilling complex ideas into simple images and messages is challenging. Yet it is crucial for all professionals to be able to present their work efficiently and when it comes to presenting research, being a good researcher is not enough. In order to make a point and convince an audience, one needs to be a good speaker. But how do you create inspiring talks? How do you engage and guide listeners rather than merely recite results and conclusions? How do you inspire trust while facing stress-induced self doubt? Our workshop will provide you with simple and actionable answers that will allow you to build confidence and competence, which will ultimately lead to better audience engagement.

Over the course of this workshop, we will take you on a journey exploring every aspect of a presentation, from planning to delivery. You will do that exploration with your own material, starting with a 5-min talk that you will give at the very beginning of the workshop. During the first day, we will work on refining the structure of your talk and as well as your slides. On the second day, we will work on your delivery, with the aim to project confidence and competence. The journey will end with the presentation of your revised 5-min talk.

We ask you to write a short report on your experience presenting on the second day. And we’ll send you articles to read before the start of the workshop.

Form

This workshop is a combination of theory and practice, providing both the why and the how to structure and deliver an impactful scientific presentation. For each section (storytelling, slides, delivery) practical exercises allow you to learn hands-on to structure and deliver your own content. During the second day of the workshop, you will evaluate each other, learn to give feedback and thus acquire the ability to learn from observation.

Material to bring:
- a 5-min presentation about your work for your fellow students, using slides, and send these to the trainer Hedwig Ens (hedwig@samspeaksscience.com the weekend before the first day of the workshop the latest.

Adressatinnen und Adressaten

All doctoral Candidates of the Faculty of Science

Informationen zu den Dozierenden

Hedwig Ens makes science open and accessible for all through the power of stories. As a public speaking trainer, she fosters a safe space for students to discover the story within their science. Having work experiences in both academia and the publishing industry, Hedwig provides her students with accessible tools on how to deliver their powerful stories in an engaging way.

Leistungsspektrum / Workload

Preparatory work: 10h
Course attendance: 2 x 8h
Written report: 4h

Besonderheiten

This course is reserved for doctoral candidates of the Faculy of Science.

Once registration is open, applications will be collected for 24 hours and course places allocated by lot. All registrations received after the initial 24h period will be put on a waiting list and assigned on a first come, first served basis.

Course places/places on the waiting list will be confirmed by e-mail. Course registrations can only be canceled before the registration period ends (send an e-mail to grace@unibas.ch). Full course attendance is mandatory. Participants who fail to attend a course without prior notification or withdraw after the registration deadline are subject to a fee of CHF 30. In addition, participants who cancel their course registration at a later point in time, are absent without an excuse or do not attend the entire course will, for reasons of fairness, not be considered for course registration in the following semester and will be removed from other courses offered in the same semester. Please find the detailed regulations on the Transferable Skills Homepage.