PhD Symposium - Designing and communicating your work for different audiences in different formats
March 20-21st, 2024
Organiser
Kasper Støy, Professor and Head of PhD School, ITU
Lecturers
Ole Andreas Alsos, Associate Professor, Vice Dean for Innovation and Dissemination Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Malene Bichel, Singer and process consultant, Copenhagen
Lene Nielsen, Associate professor, ITU
Date and Time
8:45, 20th March 2024 – 16:30, 21st March 2024.
We will meet at 8:45 in front of the reception at the ITU (by the main entrance) on March 20th. The bus leaves at 9AM sharp.
Place
Comwell Roskilde with a wonderful view to the Roskilde Fjord
Deadline for registration
11 February 2024. Registration is closed.
Your registration is considered binding. In case of illness, you MUST notify PhD Support as soon as possible, as we need time to cancel rooms etc.
Course description
The symposium is hands-on and teaches how PhD-students can move their work between, and make an impression in, different professional settings. The aim of the symposium is to work actively with a case, a vignette, a string of code, a research finding, a project description, or similar, which is to be translated it into different formats (oral and visual presentations) for different audiences, such as academia, industry, public institutions, investors, funding agencies, and/or the general public.
On course completion the PhD-students will have improved their skills of clearly and innovatively disseminating their research to foster dialogue and further collaboration with different addressees.
The symposium is interdisciplinary in focus and cater to PhD students in all stages of their studies, from newly enrolled to graduates.
Learning outcome
Having completed the full symposium successfully, PhD students will:
- Be able to identify and creatively use graphical tools for designing research posters
- Be able to communicate using body language confidently
- Be able to critically analyze and bring about relevant aspects of research when presenting for different audiences
Evaluation
Upon completion of the course, attending PhD students are invited to evaluate the course for further improvements.
Prerequisite
To attend, you must be a PhD student enrolled at the IT University
Credit
2 ECTS points for full attendance
Amount of hours the student is expected to use on the course:
Participation: hours 30 h (1+½ day at Bautahøj + written exam)
Preparation: hours 26 h (readings + selection of research piece + preparing for the short oral presentation)
Exam
2 pages about the topic of the symposium, how it relates to your work, and how the symposium is found useful for disseminating your research outcome to interested others.
E-mail your exam paper to ksty@itu.dk within the deadline: April, Thursday 11th 2024.
Program
Upon arrival, the Head of the PhD School introduces the symposium. Then Ole Andreas Alsos (Associate Professor, NTNU, Norway) teaches how you can disseminate your research through a graphical poster. Before lunch you’ll learn how to use simple tools to design a research poster. After lunch you’ll practice the art of designing your own poster, as well as presenting it. We end the day with a session where you briefly present (2 min.) your chosen piece of research (see preparations below).
9:00: leave ITU by bus to Comwell Roskilde
10:00-10:15: Arrival and coffee. Introduction to the symposium (Kasper Støy)
10:15-12:00: Poster design (Ole Andreas Alsos)
12:00-13:00: lunch
13:00-15: 00: Poster design and poster presentations with feedback (Ole Andreas Alsos)
15:00-15:15: Coffee and check-in
15:15-16:45: Pitching (2 min.) your chosen piece of research is briefly presented orally. Feedback (Kasper Støy)
Time to check email, to relax, or take a walk before dinner
18:00-19:30: dinner
Socializing (events organized by ITU PhD students: you are welcome to bring along board games, arrange games/events for getting to know each other, etc.)
Lene Nielsen (associate professor, ITU) gives a lecture on how to present research for industry partners. After a short coffee break, Malene Bichel (singer and process consultant) continues with a performance workshop that aims at improving the body language when presenting for and/or interacting with an audience.
After lunch, there is a short session during which the PhD students are to make a short oral pitch (2 min.), which is to be formulated using insights from the performance workshop and the morning lecture. The pitch should be aimed at industry or other relevant partners outside academia. A short feedback session on the oral presentations ends day 2.
8:00-9:00: Breakfast + Checkout
9:00-9:45: Industry presentation (Lene Nielsen)
9:45-10:00: Coffee
10:00-12:00: Performance workshop (Malene Bichel)
12:00-12:45: Lunch
12:45-13:00: Prepare a 2 min. oral pitch to be presented
13:00-15:30: Pitches/feedback
14:30: Coffee
15:30-16:30: Bus travel to ITU
Preparation for the symposium
You will work with one piece of research (a case, a vignette, a string of code, a research finding, a project description, or similar) and translate it into different formats for different audiences. Thus, as preparation, you should locate and bring along the piece of research you would like to work with during the two days. Besides locating the research piece, you should also prepare a short oral presentation of it (2 minutes) or, at least, you should give some thoughts to how you will present it during the afternoon session on Day 1. For the readings, you must identify and read 2-3 of the suggested readings from the literature list and you must get acquainted with the online resources provided (below).
Mikkelsen, J. F. (2017): Communication ethics and the receiver.
Journal of media and communication research, 33(63), pp. 85-102. Online access
Rowe, N. & Ilic, D. (2011): Poster Presentation – a visual medium for academic and scientific meetings. Paediatric Respiratory Reviews 12, pp. 208-213. Online access
Ankrah, S. N., Burgess, T. F., Grimshaw, P. & Shaw, N. E. (2013): Asking both university and industry actors about their engagement in knowledge transfer: What single-group studies of motives omit. Technovation 33, pp. 50-65. Online access
Pedersen, L. R. (2018): The emergence of Business Anthropology in Denmark and beyond. Fact Finders. Knowledge Aesthetics and The Business of Human Science in a Danish Consultancy. PhD dissertation, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Social Science. Chap. 1, pp. 49-80. Hard copy
Lang, M. (2003): Communicating Academic Research Findings to IS Professionals: An Analysis of Problems. Informing Science. Special Series: Informing Each Other, Vol 6, pp. 21-29. Online access
Randall, D., Harper, R. & Rouncefield, M. (2007): Ethnography and Its Role in the Design Process – ‘If You Must Work Together’. In Fieldwork for Design. Theory and Practice. Springer, Chap. 5, pp. 135-168. Hard copy
Marylin Strathern (2021): What’s in an argument? Reflections on knowledge exchange, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 55, No 1, Feb. 2021, pp. 7–29. Online access
Colin, C. (2008): The impact of entrepreneurs’ oral ‘pitch’ presentation skills on business angels’ initial screen investment decisions. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance. Vol. 10, 2008, Issue 3, pp. 257-279. Online access
Number of seats
The course holds 30 participants. The seats are distributed on a first come, first serve basis unless you have taken the course before. We will keep a waiting list. Upon any cancellations, we will offer the next person on the list the seat on the course.
This course was originally designed by Associate Professor Sisse Finken, ITU