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Skip to 0 minutes and 5 secondsJON COPLEY: The most important thing, first of all, is to think about the audience. DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 10 secondsRUTH BARTLETT: I think it's really important to remember-- DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 12 secondsFILIPPO FAZI: --to choose the right words that you want to use when you're presenting. DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 16 secondsDRAGANA MLADENOVIC: Whatever you do, try to keep your audience with you. DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 19 secondsLIZ CLUETT: Pick out the highlights and go with those. DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 21 secondsRUTH BARTLETT: To communicate your research back to the people who you've done the research with. DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 26 secondsWILL JENNINGS: To have a clear message that you want to communicate. DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 29 secondsDRAGANA MLADENOVIC: Try to maintain an eye contact. DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 32 secondsDAVID READ: Secondly, I would say, keep your slides relatively free of text. DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 35 secondsRUTH BARTLETT: In a way that anyone can understand. DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 37 secondsLIZ CLUETT: Concise is always better. DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 38 secondsDRAGANA MLADENOVIC: So be consistent. Be consistent when it comes to font, when it comes to layout. And definitely, less is more. DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 44 secondsWILL JENNINGS: Often with a research project, there are so many different findings and so many different nuances. DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 49 secondsLIZ CLUETT: People don't want to sit there and be bored. They want the highlights. DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 52 secondsFILIPPO FAZI: And then it is very important, as a third point-- DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 55 secondsDAVID READ: I would say practise in front of an audience. DR.
Skip to 0 minutes and 58 secondsRUTH BARTLETT: So that might be, you know, communities and groups of people. DR.
Skip to 1 minute and 1 secondLIZ CLUETT: Because they can then ask questions. DR.
Skip to 1 minute and 3 secondsFILIPPO FAZI: Be very effective with your time. DR.
Skip to 1 minute and 4 secondsJON COPLEY: From that, you can then understand what knowledge they already have or don't have about your topic. DR.
Skip to 1 minute and 9 secondsDAVID READ: Then ask them to be sort of critically supportive or evaluative of what you've done. DR.
Skip to 1 minute and 14 secondsLIZ CLUETT: And then, whatever you decide-- DR.
Skip to 1 minute and 15 secondsWILL JENNINGS: You need people to take away one takeaway message they'll remember for the day, for the week, for the months ahead. DR.
Skip to 1 minute and 22 secondsJON COPLEY: Then it will be effortless for them to absorb the information that you're reporting. DR.
Skip to 1 minute and 26 secondsFILIPPO FAZI: Say what you really need to say. Don't dwell too much on detail. But at the end, people must say, oh wow, I really understood it. And that's a great piece of work.
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