You will probably wish to prepare some PowerPoint slides to support your presentation. Prepare your slides as a PowerPoint file or a PDF and bring with you a copy of the presentation on a data stick or other portable memory device.

You will not generally be able to plug your own laptop into the conference projection system. If you require special technology for your presentation please email to the sub-section head as soon as you can and we will do our best to help you.

Guidelines for Academic Presentations

The time allocated for a presentation is 15 minutes, with a further 5 minutes allowed for discussion. Think in terms of the following slides:

• A title slide – Name, Title and what the paper is about
• One slide with the hypothesis you want to investigate
• 2 or 3 slides covering your current research plan
• You should not require any more than an absolute maximum of 10 slides – this would mean talking to each slide for only two minutes.
• It is generally distracting to the audience to have too many slides in a short presentation
• Do not put too much text on a slide – you want the audience to listen to you and not to be reading your slides!

Guidelines for Work in progress and PhD Presentations (Poster presentations)

Posters will be on display for the duration of the conference and there will be a timetabled slot for contributors to stand by their posters so that participants can come and discuss the research. The Poster sessions will be grouped into 4 or 5 papers. Each presenter is given 10 minutes to present their work/poster. There will be 5 minute discussion period between presentations for the session chairs/discussants and all those present to provide feedback.

Please, notice that the session chairs will have read your paper, but the other members of the group will not. That’s why your poster presentation should cover the following:

1. Name, Title and what the paper is about
2. The research question and any hypothesis you are investigating
3. Your research plan
4. A summary of what you have said and your next steps.

For further details and recommendations, please visit the Poster-type Presentation Tips and Templates to download section of the EINCO Conference.