Content of the workshop

Pitching requires grabbing the attention of your audience to get your message across in a just a short time. But who is your audience? Are you pitching a project to colleagues, convincing a funding agency or explaining your research to your family? In this workshop, you will learn about communicating your research in a short pitch. By collaborating with each other and receiving repeated feedback, each of you will create a brand new pitch to introduce your research topic to colleagues, family, friends, and even their children.

By the end of this workshop you will have learned:

  •  the difference between a pitch and a presentation
  • how to structure a pitch
  • different ways to grab attention at the start of a pitch
  • how to adapt the content to the audience with the dilution principle
  • about the importance of connecting with the audience, not just with words but with the whole body and voice

​During this workshop, interactive theory is alternated with exercises and assignments.

Practical information

Date and location:

Course HC01: 
24 April 
9h30 - 16h30
Campus Drie Eiken - Building R - Room R.015

Lecturer:

Ben Verhoeven (ERLNMYR)

Language of the course:

English

Docop-points:

This course counts for 0,6 point.

Registration:

Via SisA Self Service. Log in with your student account. Registration is possible as from 8 January 2025 and after you've been (re-)enrolled as a PhD student for 2024-2025.