Reflection
on taught session, Friday 29th January 2016
Academic
Posters
The first part of
the day was taken up by looking into academic posters. Annabeth introduced
these as a good way to summarise your work in an A2 format. They are often used
by new researchers who are starting to develop academic outputs. We organise a
poster conference for Arts and Humanities PhD students at the University of
Leeds and it’s a good opportunity for them to present their work in a familiar,
and hopefully less stressful environment, so I’m already on board with the idea
of it being a good way of disseminating your research.
Some tips from
Annabeth:
- 500 words maximum
- Could demonstrate synthesis of research and visual results
- Could make use of infographics
- Could take the approach Introduction, background, methodology, results, next steps
- Make sure you have a hierarchy of information
- Don’t forget a bibliography
- Identify conferences which will accept posters.
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We then had a
little time to view posters from the college staff and the think about a poster
of our own – mine is above. It reflects this ever-refining quest to fully
understand my research question. Annabeth also mentioned a poster as part of
the outcome for the current module, if desired.
Not much more to
say on this, other than it is there as a tool to use if the need arises.
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