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How to Present your PhD to a General Audience

I was invited by the Doctoral School of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences of "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi to deliver a workshop during the conference for PhD students. I chose a topic that would be useful to the PhD students, that would help them and support their PhD presentation at the end of their thesis, but also to arouse their taste for speaking in public about scientific topics.

The presentation was called "How to Present you PhD to a General Audience" and included a theory part and a series of practical exercises.

I also had an alternative title for the presentation:

I presented some models of structuring information with a lot of heavy scientific content. I have previously written here on the website about the four structures I propose for presenting scientific results.

The fourth presentation structure was even inspired by my presence at that conference. Unlike the science researchers I usually work with, the social-human researchers are much more focused on people (as a research topic). So I taught them how to think about structuring their information through the lens of an individual story, so that they can succeed in conveying complex ideas without being dry - just static and graphic, but emotionally engaging the audience.

The best gift during the workshop was the remark of one of the PhD students from Israel:

You took the dust off my mind and made me rethink something fundamental about my research

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