Guidelines for posters

The idea of the event is to showcase the research at the University of Bath so that it can be understood by a wide audience. When producing your poster, you should consider your audience, which will consist of:

- other postgraduate students from other departments

- members of the public, including 6th formers

- public engagement experts.

Your poster should allow everyone in the audience to understand what you are talking about! So...

- Keep technical jargon, equations, abbreviations to an absolute minimum

- explain the aims of your work so that the benefits to society are clear

- even if your current work is not directly applicable, think of the long term potential and what your work could be used for

- increase the appeal of your presentation to include how other research in other departments has either made your work possible or could be used to develop it in the future

- do not think you have to fit in all your research: a taster will do!

- What about a flow diagram or a spidergram?

This will not be like a normal poster in your field - that is why we are paing to have a new one printed for you (once we've checked it fits the aims of the event).

Communicating research

Communicating research is important to:

- publicise major work

- engage with the public and  media

- attract funding from research councils (they are not experts in you field either!)

- enable links to be formed between different disciplines and collaborative projects to develop

You will be given

- feedback on how well you communicated with the audience, from public engagement experts; Dr John Copley (senior teaching fellow at the School of Ocean & Earth Science at the University of Southampton, and a former writer and assistant news editor for New Scientist)

- the chance to win a prize!

What do I do next?

If you are interested in submitting a poster for Meeting of Minds, please:

1. register online at http://meetingofminds.eventbrite.com

2. email your poster (in pdf or Powerpoint) to postgrads@bath.ac.uk with your full name and "Meeting of Minds - Poster" in the subject line.

The deadline for poster submission is Monday 19th May.

We will let you know any modifications we require between 19 - 26th May.  Successful poster candidates will be informed on Mon 26th May.

Posters will be printed 27th May.  You are responsible for checking and printing final version.

The PGA will pay for printing of a colour A1 poster at the print shop, as long as it has been approved by the PGA.