Tutor: Dr Andrew Terhemen Tyowua

Preparing and giving scientific conference talks

Course cost: $10.35

Course duration: 1 h: 31 min

Course description

If you are a graduate student (MSc or PhD), a postdoc or an early career scientist, you are likely to attend a scientific conference (local or international) at some point and perhaps also deliver a talk on your research work. Delivering an impactful scientific conference talk has many benefits including securing future research grants, developing links and connections for future collaboration and securing a new position. Yet scientists in these categories often struggle with delivering impactful scientific conference talks, thus losing the immense benefits this important academic activity provides. This is because many Universities provide limited guidance on how to prepare and deliver impactful scientific conference talks. Therefore, this course is designed to close this gap.

The course covers the reasons you should take scientific conference talks seriously, strategies for creating and delivery scientific conference talks as well as strategies for answering follow up questions. It also contains an exemplary international scientific conference talk, important questions scientists should address before creating any talk and keywords or phrases to use in delivering the talk. Links to additional information on creating and delivering succint scientific conference talks have also been provided. The course ends with a quiz and a certificate of completion. Therefore, upon completion of the course, the learner will be able to create and deliver impactful scientific conference talks and have an additional certificate for their CVs.

The course is meant for scientists of all backgrounds.

Course access: 21 days