PGR Symposium¶
The Department of Computer Science runs a PGR Symposium (organised by Dr. Ian Pratt-Hartmann 1) which brings all the PGR students together to present their research and learn about what their fellow students are doing. This is a symposium in which the research students in the Department present their research to each other and the wider community. Every PGR is required to participate as follows:
Year 1¶
PGRs in year 1 of the doctorate will make posters describing their research and their results so far, and will participate in a poster session in which they stand in front of their poster and discuss it with interested people. Prizes are given for the best poster.
Year 2¶
PGRs in year 2 will give a 20 minute talk describing their research and results. And if you are presenting here or in a research conference you may want to first read ‘Tell me a story! A plea for more compelling conference presentations’ https://bioone.org/journals/The-Condor/volume-119/issue-2/CONDOR-16-209.1/Tell-me-a-story-A-plea-for-more-compelling-conference/10.1650/CONDOR-16-209.1.pdf.
Year 3¶
Third year PGRs will be given specific tasks to carry out during the Research Symposium as part of their training. These involve attending and evaluating some of the presentations. There will be a meeting to discuss these tasks prior to the Symposium. And third years should also evidence some public outreach activities along with participating and critiquing the work of first and second years bringing their experience to bear. Third years can also present their work if they missed out in second year.
This gives all PGRs opportunities to meet more senior research students and their supervisors, and more senior PGRs practice at research communications. In addition, it is an important mechanism whereby we advertise the latest research which is going on in the Department.