When: 6 sessions (10am-12pm on July 17, 18, 19 and July 24, 25, 26)
Where: ETSI CAMINOS CANALES Y PUERTOS
More information and enrollment
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:
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Choosing appropriate language to avoid overwhelming your audience,
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Using narrative to explain why your research is important,
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Synthesizing prior work to convey where yours fits in by highlighting differences,
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Controlling focus in order to minimize cognitive load when presenting data,
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Buying time for an audience to process when explaining how something works,
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Distilling your message when time and attention spans are short.