GRADCOMMX: Oral Communication Intensive for UPM PhD

When:  6 sessions (10am-12pm on July 17, 18, 19 and July 24, 25, 26)

Where: ETSI CAMINOS CANALES Y PUERTOS

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Part of being good at what you do is being able to explain what it is that you do. This is a six-day intensive in which PhD students in technical disciplines learn and workshop six simple ideas that they can use when explaining their research to a range of audiences. These ideas are:

  • Choosing appropriate language to avoid overwhelming your audience,

  • Using narrative to explain why your research is important,

  • Synthesizing prior work to convey where yours fits in by highlighting differences,

  • Controlling focus in order to minimize cognitive load when presenting data,

  • Buying time for an audience to process when explaining how something works,

  • Distilling your message when time and attention spans are short.