November 2, 2020, by Lisa Chin
Improving scientific presentation
This post is written by Dr Tissa Chandesa, Research Training Development Manager at the Graduate School.
The manner in which we present and disseminate our scientific discoveries to a wider audience plays a vital role to a researcher’s life cycle. Though our research work can be ground-breaking and novel in nature, however, if the wider audience does not understand how it benefits them, the research work will not serve its main purpose of improving and benefiting humankind. As a result, on Thursday 22 October 2020, Dr Chong Siang Yew delivered a session on improving your scientific presentation via Microsoft Teams to our early career researchers’ community. Dr Chong is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at University of Nottingham Malaysia.
The one-hour session was more of a two-way conversation on the issue of writing to the general scientific audience, whether for publications or grant applications, in a precise and understandable manner. Dr Chong shared his personal experiences in publishing at leading journals of the area in Artificial Intelligence as well as having worked in a niche research area in coevaluation and successfully securing a grant application for an EU-H2020 grant, aimed primarily for a wider audience. Below are the learning outcomes that Dr Chong covered during his session:
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Explain the challenges involve in writing precisely for the broader scientific audiences.
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Demonstrate communication techniques for writing to a broader scientific base.
On behalf of Graduate School, I would like to thank Dr Chong Siang Yew very much for his time, contribution and insight to a very important topic. We hope the attendees will greatly benefit from this session and will put into practice some of the best practices shared by Dr Chong during the session.
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