Course Research presenter - Educational Informatics

The course A227/30 Research Presenter – Educational Informatics is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, 2025.

Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or Master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).

Requirements for participation: Active participation and completing three home assignments.

Aim: To gain skills in Rhetoric of Science and reflection in order to improve academic and research presentations.

Learning outcomes: By the end of the course, the participant will be able to:

• - Apply skills in Rhetorics for preparing and delivering research presentations with a focus on producing and presenting effective talks and posters.
• - Use reflective skills when in engaging in academic discussions and evaluating performance in academic presentations.
• - Apply principles for giving and receiving feedback.
• - Use information and communication technology (ICT) to support the presentation.

Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 65 hours.

Content: The oral research presentation is a genre used throughout the researchers’ career from PhD to senior researcher. However, research presentations can be both personally rewarding and demanding. Therefore, researchers need rhetorical skills in order to prepare a presentation in accordance with the purpose and situation and to deliver the presentation properly. The researcher should also be able to use and choose appropriate modern information and communication technology (ICT) to support the presentation.

Along with rhetorical and technological skills to prepare the presentation and master stage performance, reflective skills are needed. When getting a scientific abstract accepted for a conference, it is judged that the researcher has acquired a relatively high subject matter knowledge. However, less is assumed in terms of skills in presenting and learning from communicating with others. The skill of communicating with other experts must be supplemented with knowledge about science rhetoric in order to disseminate the intricacies of research and to be a good research presenter. The rhetorical and reflective skills trained in this course will benefit mainly research presentation, but also other academic presentations including lecturing.

Instructors: 

Maria Louise Gamborg, MSc. Psych., PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Clinical Medicine, Health, Aarhus University & Corporate HR MidtSim, Central Denmark Region

Rune Dall Jensen, MSc., PhD, Associate Professor and Head of Research
Department of Clinical Medicine, Health, Aarhus University & Corporate HR MidtSim, Central Denmark Region

Anders Lund Schram, MSc., PhD-student
Department of Public Health, Health, Aarhus University & Corporate HR MidtSim, Central Denmark Region

Venue: Aarhus University, Aarhus

Participation in the course is without cost for:

• PhD students, Health Research Year students from Aarhus University
• PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
• PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses

Course dates:

• 17 February 2025 08:30 - 12:30
• 24 February 2025 08:30 - 16:00
• 03 March 2025 08:30 - 16:00