This face to face course is run by the Researcher Academy 

Target Audience: Mid stage postgraduate research students and early career researchers.

Posters are widely used in academic conferences and other settings and provide an excellent means to present your research in a concise, accessible and interesting manner. This course is for you if you wish to learn about the principles of designing poster presentations and how best to use posters to communicate research outputs.

Description:

The course covers the steps and considerations involved in creating an effective poster presentation. You will study the theoretical aspects of design (placement of text and images, colour, fonts, etc.) as well as how to communicate with your audience.

During the course you will:

·         discuss the needs and wants of your audience

·         appraise possible formats and structures for posters

·         consider how to present research effectively on posters

·         consider the effective use of colour, size, fonts etc

·         consider “performing” at your poster session

 course does not cover IT skills for creating a poster. If you would like to learn more about this please see the related courses section.

Aims: To help you to prepare and deliver an effective poster.

Objectives:

By the end of the course you will:

·        Be able to plan the design of an effective poster presentation 
·        Appreciate the need to consider your audience in order to tailor your poster to meet their needs
·        Be aware of, and able to evaluate various possible poster structures and formats

Process: This is a half-day participative small group workshop

Related courses: To further develop your poster design skills you may want to attend Creating a poster in PowerPoint.

Course Accessibility

The following table shows a summary of what is needed to participate in the course. 

If you feel you will experience any difficulties participating, please let us know via the ‘special requirements’ tab, providing as much information as possible. The special requirements tab can be completed when you book your place. Alternatively, you can contact us directly at ra-training@nottingham.ac.uk.

Print off pre-requisite paperwork/ resources & bring them to the course (optional)
Access seminar room on campus
Attend the course at the specified date and time
Watch and listen to the course tutor(s) and/or other attendees
Follow presentation slides during the course
Take part in group activities/ discussions

Booking Conditions

Latecomer policy

Researchers should plan to arrive prior to the advertised course start time. Except for exceptional reasons, there will be no admittance to a Researcher Academy or Faculty Training Programme (FTP) course 15 minutes after the advertised course start time.

Importance of booking commitment

When booking on to a Researcher Academy short course you are entering into a commitment to attend. If you find that you are no longer available to attend you MUST cancel your place (on the system if more than three days before the course) or if at short notice by emailing pg-training@nottingham.ac.uk. This will ensure that your place can be offered to another researcher on the waiting list. Failure to cancel a place results in other researchers missing out on places through the waiting list process.

It is unacceptable for researchers to just not attend when booked onto a course. Researcher Academy maintains records of those who repeatedly do not attend courses they have booked. This may affect future eligibility to book onto further Researcher Academy courses and will affect considerations for Researcher Academy funded opportunities.