Oral Presentation
Oral Presentations: Beyond Slides
(2025, May 12, 9:00–17:00, Dioscórides Building @ Faculty Room)
In this workshop we will introduce and explore key concepts and tools for designing and delivering scientific presentations. We will explore some fundamental aspects of scientific communication, with a focus on how they apply to oral presentations, including the profile and interests of potential audiences, and practical tools for clarifying the scientific message and pitching it at the right level for the audience. We will then work on strategies for developing structure and content, followed by input and exercises on practical aspects of giving a talk. Finally, we will discuss, practice, and troubleshoot best practices for delivering presentations. An important deliverable for this workshop is that the participants will develop and practice an oral presentation to be delivered in their current work setting.
Workshop Content
Topics for this workshop:
- Relating to my audience and telling a story
- Defining my message, content and structure
- Key concepts in visual communication
- Focus on creating slide presentations
- Presenting your work – concepts and practice
Training Methods
This is an interactive workshop with extensive elements of partner work, exercises, group discussion. We use innovative training methods and proven didactic techniques, and place special emphasis on sharing and learning from the participants’ own expertise and experience. To increase impact and applicability, we work with real-life cases from the participants whenever possible. We may ask participants to reserve time for individual preparatory work before the workshop.
Trainers
Dr Lisa Saemisch PhD is a physicist by training, with a PhD in nanophotonics, and over 7 years of experience as a researcher. Her work has been published in several high impact journals and she has presented at more than 10 international conferences, always eager to explain sophisticated scientific concepts in a very simple way. She has extensive experience in teaching students and has developed a passion for helping her fellow scientists improve the content and delivery of their presentations, their paper-reading skills and consulting them about what the future holds for a scientist.
Target audience:
PhD students (1st, 2nd, 3rd year or longer) at the CIC.
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This training course is part of the activities outlined in the FICUS Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) Action Plan, which will be open for all FICUS, Univ Salamanca, and CSIC trainees working at the CIC.