English for Presentations at International Conferences by Adrian Wallwork

Author:Adrian Wallwork
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

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Ask for feedback

You can use your conclusions to get help from your audience. In the following example, the presenter uses the three points in his conclusions to stimulate interest in the audience:

What would be great for us is to have your feedback on these three points [points to his slide which contains three key conclusions]. First, it seems to us that our Gizmo has solved the problem of overheating—what do you think? Second, our results would appear to show both P and Q—so what is the reason for this apparent contradiction? It would be really useful if any of you could give me some ideas on this. Third, we are pretty sure that our Gizmo could be used in hospitals—but maybe you know of other possible applications.

Talk about your future work

Your plans for the future are actually one of the main reasons you are at the congress. This is a fantastic opportunity to do some self-promotion. You may have up to 100 people listening to you. One of them might be interested in helping you or collaborating with you. Tell the audience that you would welcome speaking to anyone who could suggest ways of continuing your line of research. If you have done a convincing presentation and have showed that you are the kind of person other people might like working with—not just because of your scientific knowledge but equally importantly how you seem as a person—then you might find that you get an invitation to work in another laboratory that might have more equipment or funds than your current one.

Talking about future work is particularly appropriate when you have presented negative findings, when you have told the audience that your research did not go as you expected. You can also use your conclusions to talk about the limitations of your work. In both cases, your future work will probably thus involve rectifying the problems you encountered and telling the audience how you plan to do this.

A possible limitation of our work is that we have used two rather simple datasets. Unfortunately, due to computational constraints we couldn’t use larger networks. But as I hope I have highlighted, we are still only in the first phase. So we are more interested in the methodology. But in the next phase, we are planning to implement the code using other programming languages. In any case, I think that there are two main benefits of our methodology compared to previous ones. First, …

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