Course Identification

Motivation statement:

Please write to the lecturer (meital@salmor.co.il) why you want to take part in the science communication presentation skills course and include the following (between 2-3 short paragraphs):

1. Stage you are in your PhD

2. What challenges do you face when giving talks (to any audience) and what do you want to improve?

3. What do you expect to achieve in this course?

• Practicing effective presentation skills
• Raising awareness to your usage of jargon and technical terminology
• Adapting to different audience types (experts and non-experts)
• Understanding paradigm gaps between you and others, dealing with biases
• Extracting the essence of your research: What is the bottom line?
• Getting the right message across- in talks (experts/non-experts), lab meetings etc.
• Building narrative, storytelling models
• Practicing body language and vocal delivery
• Improv exercises to practice effective body movement
• PowerPoint- using it effectively in a talk
• Interviewing for a job in the industry vs. academia
• Translating scientific messages to policy makers
• *Every participant will get a before/after video recording to measure progress

Making your scientific messages clear to various audiences (experts and non-experts)

Improving presentation skills

Elevating confidence in public speaking

Storytelling models can be used to build your future talks, articles and posters

Networking with researchers from other fields at WIS