Designing an Engaging Lightning Talk

Hybrid - Clark Hall - Brown Library, Classroom 133; Register for Zoom Link

PhD Plus is excited to co-host a series of Research Presentation Workshops over the spring semester in collaboration with the planning committees for the Diversifying Research Scholarship Conference, Graduate Biosciences Research Symposium, Hunter Research Student Conference (HRSC), Huskey Exhibition, UVA Engineering Research Symposium (UVERS), and UVA Postdoctoral Research Symposium. This series is designed to support all UVA postdocs and graduate students who are planning to present at both on- and off-Grounds conferences in 2025.

Do you want to showcase your research to an interdisciplinary audience or compete for prizes? The UVA Postdoctoral Research Symposium provides postdocs from all disciplines an opportunity to effectively explain their research to a non-specialist audience as a short Lightning Talk. In the Lightning Talk competition, your goal is to intrigue your audience and explain your research in a way that is both understandable and memorable. This is challenging for many reasons, and in this workshop, you’ll learn how to use your 5 minutes to do all this and more. 

This session of the Research Presentation Series will take place from 3:00-4:30 pm, in the Clark Hall - Brown Library, Classroom 133. This 1.5-hour workshop will highlight ways you can intrigue your audience by presenting your research in a way that is both understandable and memorable. Members of the PhD Plus team will share tips on how to design your talk to complement your presentation style—enabling you to deliver a polished and professional research presentation. You’ll also get tips and tools to overcome common presentation fears and foibles.  

 

LOCATION DETAILS

Please note that the in-person room location has changed. We will now be hosting this session in Clark Hall – Brown Library, Classroom 133 (downloadable directions below). 

 
We encourage you to join us in person in Clark Hall, Classroom 133, which is located in the Charles L. Brown Science & Engineering Library on the 1st floor. Please download the directions to the room below and look for the PhD Plus banner on your left when you enter the library

 

Register here for this session of the PhD Plus - Research Presentation Series

 

 

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