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FIVE UNUSUAL WAYS TO


PRESENT YOUR THESIS By Laura Bridgestock (www.topuniversities.com blogger)


Sick of your non-scientist friends complaining that your research is far too complicated for them to ever understand?


Try one of these unusual thesis presentation techniques, guaranteed to make your research more accessible to a general audience – and also likely to involve a fair amount of fun!


Tell It to a Five-Year-Old


At the University of Texas at Austin, science doctoral students are challenged to (voluntarily) present their research to school children, from kindergarten up to 12th grade. Students then rate the presentation on ‘understandability’, ‘enthusiasm’ and what it made them think about. Survive 20 minutes at the front of class, and you’ll probably find that big academic conference doesn’t seem so scary any more!


Turn it into a Dance


The annual Dance Your PhD contest invites PhD students to present their research to the world... using the medium of interpretative dance. There are four categories – physics, chemistry, biology and social sciences – and entries are scored by a panel of judges (including some pretty big-name academics) on three criteria: scientific merit, artistic merit, and creative combination of science and art.


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