Presentations & Posters - useful library material

If you have to present your research or prepare a poster the library has some great resources to help you.

The "Practical skills" series of books provide useful information for poster presentation - check availability

Nicol, A.A.M. & Pexman, P.M. 2010, Displaying your findings: a practical guide for creating figures, posters, and presentations - check availability

Bethell E. & Milsom, C. 2014, Posters & Presentations - check availability

Other books for presentations can be found in the library catalogue.

Present like a pro - University of Manchester - My Learning Essentials

NUI Galway, UCC and Trinity College have also developed an excellent resource providing tips for poster presentation - http://www.nuigalway.ie/remedi/poster/index.html

It is worth being aware that some conferences may not have the best academic credentials.  The following website may help to guide you to a trusted conference that you should attend and present your research - https://thinkcheckattend.org/ 

Other resources:

NYU Poly
Leicester University
London School of Economics - Poster Design Tips
F1000 - http://f1000.com/posters for ideas on style and design
Nature article - Last accessed 11/10/18
NSF Science Visualisation Challenge or Vizzies
Hopkins, W. (1997) How to Give Talks and Create an Effective Poster. Available: http://www.sportsci.org/
Last accessed 11/10/18. [Go to Research Resources from the homepage.  This resource is aimed at Sports Science research]
Science (2013). Posters & graphics. Science. 339 (6119), pp 514-15. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6119/514.full.pdf

Eposters - Some conferences are now including electronic or eposters, the following short article gives a very good overview to this new format - http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/7_15.pdf

Software for creating posters:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/remedi/poster/resources.html
Canva
Google Charts
Easel.ly
Microsoft Word, Powerpoint or Publisher

If you know of any other good resources please leave feedback.

Training Load Monitoring & Athlete Management Conference - Oct. 3rd

The Sport Science and Health programme at ITT in association with the IRFU will be running a half day research event on Training Load Monitoring and Athlete Management Conference on October 3rd.

Dr. Tim Gabbett has 20 years’ experience working as an applied sport scientist with athletes and coaches from a wide range of sports including Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Basketball, Australian Football, and Cricket and has consulted with world leading sports teams and organisations including Manchester United, the New Zealand Rugby Union the Australian Institute of Sport, the National Rugby League and a number of AFL teams. Tim has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and has presented at over 100 national and international conferences. He is committed to performing world-leading research that can be applied in the ‘real world’ to benefit high performance coaches and athletes.

At this unique event, Tim will present his world leading research in team sports and will cover topics such as:

- The relationship between training load and injury

- Injury prediction models

- Return to train, play and “compete” plans

- The protective effect of training

This half-day conference is ideal for sports coaches, S&C coaches, sport scientists and medical staff members who are looking to enhance their understanding of athlete training load monitoring and management.

The course is priced at €75 and can be booked online HERE. 

The course can also be booked by contacting Niamh Nash on 01-6473835 or niamh.nash@irfu.ie.

YLS Symposium - Cell to Cell Communication, 12th November 2014

This Young Life Scientists’ Symposium (YLS) is a one day scientific conference organised by PhD students and post-docs for their peers. The aim of YLS 2014 is to promote networking and professional development through social events and careers sessions, as well as scientific talks and poster sessions.

YLS 2014 is being held in conjunction with the Irish Area Section of the Biochemical Society Annual meeting. The focus of YLS 2014 is on cell to cell communication as well as talks on grant writing and non-academic careers.

Registration to YLS 2014 is free and is open until 31st October.

For more information

Institute of Chemistry of Ireland Congress 2014, 18th-19th Sept.

Culturing of Crystal, Chemical and Biochemical Solutions

The Institute of Chemistry Congress 2014 will mark the International Year of Crystallography 2014. 

The Theme for the event is "Culturing of Crystal, Chemical and Biochemical Solutions".

The programme is available at the website listed below and includes a talk by Fintan Kelleher, researcher and lecturer at ITT Dublin.

Register at : http://www.iycr2014.org/events/seminars/institute-of-chemistry-congress-2014

Contest for postgraduate students - submission date 16th April 2014

Post-graduate students are invited to submit proposals for this year's student contest at the TERENA Networking Conference (TNC2014), which is sponsored by Cisco Systems and Internet Society. Submissions should be made in PDF format no later than 16 April 2014.

Ten posters will be selected for presentation at TNC2014 with one author from each selected submission able to attend TNC2014 free of charge and potentially receiving financial support for travel. The best of these ten will go through for presentation as a lightning talk. The sponsors will award an additional prize to the author whose poster and talk are voted the best by TNC2014 attendees.

For more details - click here