Hi All,

Apologies if this has been mentioned before... I'm in my second year of a science PhD and have to present my data so far in a poster presentation soon, and was hoping for any advice that might be specific to a poster presentation as opposed to a powerpoint. Although I've presented work as a powerpoint before, I'm completely unfamiliar with presenting work on a poster (I'd prefer if I could get away with just letting people look at it, if only that was possible!) It has to be presented in a relatively non-technical way for a general science audience. Would you just make it similar to any other presentation? I feel like I may be over thinking this to be honest!! I'm a nervous presenter at the best of times, so any tips would be very much appreciated!

Thanks! :-)

Tulip

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I've not done a poster before, but the advice here might be useful:
http://thesiswhisperer.com/2011/05/19/5-ways-to-poster-fail/

At the conferences I've been to, I tend to read the intro and conclusions, and the only read the rest of the poster if those bits were sufficiently interesting/relevant to me. Might be worth bearing in mind that people don't always read these things in a linear manner.

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My tip would be to remember that you will be there next to the poster, so you don't need to go into too much detail on the poster itself. People can then ask you about the detail if they are interested. Just make the poster eye-catching (plenty of pictures if you can) and try to avoid small font sizes and/or "wall of text". This is easier in some subjects than others. I always have a large "washed out" picture behind the content of the poster to act as a background. If you can find a cool relevant photo then that's great - not too colourful and use some editing software to drain the colour down a bit, it is a background after all.

Also remember to put your project sponsors' logos on the poster as well as your name and the title - all easier to forget then you might imagine.

Thank you very much for the replies guys! Hazyjane I really liked that website, it seems to have a lot of useful information that I hadn't come across before so thank you for that! And Screamingaddabs thank you for the advice about what to include on the poster, definitely wouldn't be good to forget the sponsors' logos!!

Cheers :)

This is a good website for making a good poster. http://betterposters.blogspot.sg/

My tip would be to make it as big as possible! I presented a poster recently and the conference organizers specified the maximum size a poster could be. Stupidly I thought that's too big - I'll do mine smaller. Well, everyone went for the max size so mine looked a bit out of place! Also: pictures - lots of them.