PhD-course: Presentation techniques for food scientists (2 ECTS)
Previous title: FOOD Flex 3 - Having success at a conference (2 ECTS)
Aim
This module-based, generic course will provide the participants with a full tool box of oral communicative skills suitable for PhD students in the food sciences including human nutrition and consumer science, and they will be able to test some of the skills obtained at an annual, public PhD congress. In addition, the course acts as a platform for network establishment among students within the food, nutrition and consumer sciences.
After completing the course participants will be able to make highly professional oral presentations in scientific and popular fora, and they will be able to communicate with and conduct negotiations with industrial as well as university partners. This course is the follow-up to the previous FOOD FLEX 3 course, and students will be able to transfer credits from FLEX 3 modules to this course.
Contents
Emphasis is placed on improving the personal communication and networking skills of PhD students within the food, nutrition and consumer sciences. This is achieved through interactive training in small groups (up to 15 participants) and through presenting to a larger group at the FOOD DK PhD Congress. Each student gets personal feedback both in small and large groups.
The course consists of four modules:
1: Oral presentation techniques for food scientists (1 day)
2: Poster presentation techniques for food scientists (1 day)
3: Meeting the enterprises (1 day)
4: FOOD Denmark PhD Congress (1.5 day)
Where module 1 and 2 are focused towards public presentations for a mixture of expert and non-expert audience, module 3 focuses on communication with smaller business target groups, and on how to handle the cross-field of scientific credibility and business interests both during presentation and negotiation situations.
Participants must take module 4 and at least two of the remaining three modules in order to pass the course. The order in which modules are taken is not important. Each module will run at least once per year. Students are evaluated through a combination of a written assignment and a presentation at the FOOD Denmark PhD Congress. Each module can be taken as a stand-alone workshop or course without ECTS credit and evaluation.
Teachers
Claus Adam Jarløv and other GlobalDenmark staff members.
Examination
An oral presentation at the FOOD DK PhD congress (Module 4), and a written assignment. The written assignment must be an evaluation of the presentation given at the FOOD DK PhD Congress, in which the aim of the presentation, how the aim is reached through the presentation and personal reflections on the outcome of the presentation are described. The participant is expected to demonstrate that he/she has applied techniques taught in the course and he/she must be able to describe corrective actions in relation to future presentations.
Registration
Registration deadline: 10 days before each module.
Register by e-mail to: food_course_registration@life.ku.dk
If you have registered and find out that you cannot attend after all - PLEASE LET US KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! You will be charged full price for non-PhD students if you do not appear at the course and have not given notice about your absence.
The course is officially registered at the University of Copenhagen, and you can find the course in their database: http://phdcourses.life.ku.dk/course/LPhD175.
Price
There is no course fee for members of the FOOD Denmark Research School, VLAG PhD students and PhD students from Danish universities. Other participants must pay a fee of DKK 2,000 per module (including food).
However, PhD students who are not members of either FOOD Denmark or VLAG must pay expenses for food and administration: DKK 600 per day (Module 1-3), DKK 1000 (Module 4).
Further information: Henriette Hansen
