Your Science, Your Data, Your Story – Your Poster
Your Science, Your Data, Your Story – Your Poster
Scientific Story Telling
A conference poster is much more than your latest data compressed into figures that are spread on an enormous white surface with text far too small. A poster is your billboard for the scientific world, telling your story with your data about your science. It helps you to engage, inform, and inspire your audience. An inspired and informed audience gives better feedback, helping you in return with your scientific work.
But how does a poster work? What makes it different from a talk or a paper? How do you tell your story?
This workshop will guide you from your raw data to a finalised poster telling your own story. Starting with the differences between a poster, a talk, and a paper, you will learn how a poster is structured, which stories science can tell (fairy tale, criminal writing, etc.), what the pros and cons of each story type are, which story type matches your data best. And how illustrations, colours, and arrangement help you to communicate your story. Afterwards you have the opportunity to incorporate the newly learnt skills in your own poster and to discuss them on a one-on-one basis.
This workshop is aimed to scientists (PhD students and postdocs) and to everyone who is interested and has already created their own posters or plans to do so soon and wants to improve their style. This workshop will give you a guideline to set up posters ready to print. No previous knowledge about graphic programs is required.
Combine workshops!
This workshop can be combined with the workshops listed below to provide a complete set of skills to understand the technical and theoretical concepts of graphics and the application into illustrations for articles or complete posters.
