How to create your poster

Designing poster presentations

If you don’t (yet) have much experience of designing ‘posters’, or would like some inspiration, there are LOTS of great example posters from previous Get Published conferences. Some are included on this page. The posters are in the RADAR collection, available here:

https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/hierarchy.do?topic=9233b9bf-080e-418c-852f-04189c96753b&page=1

The Brookes Centre for Academic Development has resources here: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/students/academic-development/online-resources/poster-presentations/

Advice about poster creation

CREATIVE SOFTWARE: You can use any software, provided you can produce a PDF for printing purposes. Some people use Powerpoint, some use the free tool called CANVA (https://www.canva.com/en_gb/), but you can use other software too.

FORMAT: Your poster should be in PORTRAIT format, saved as a pdf, and should be suitable for printing as size A1 format if you want to present it at this year’s GetPublished! conference.

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS: As a general principle, all data (e.g. from interviews) should be anonymised. Please see the Brookes Research Ethics Code of Practice:

https://www.brookes.ac.uk/sites/research-support/research-ethics/

COPYRIGHT: Only use images which you are allowed to use (e.g. are labelled for non-commercial reuse using the Google Images>Tools>Usage Rights copyright checking tool) and/or provide copyright attribution or the Creative Commons licence information where appropriate.

DETAILED GUIDANCE: This document gives lots of details and advice about creating a poster: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pcORExFPeddMulC5f4kfqW9kB7SGf-1S/view?usp=sharing

Delivering poster presentations

Here is some good advice on YouTube:

> How to present an academic research poster - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ozwCEeaVWE

> Giving an Effective Poster Presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMSaFUrk-FA

The YouTube video mentions preparing a 2 to 3 minute talk, but in the demonstration the prepared talk is actually much shorter, which is even better. A prepared talk of 30 seconds to 1 minute is perfect to attract interest; those people who’d like to know more can then stay and ask more questions.

You don’t need to bring business cards unless you already have them, but you could share your email address (your email address is a good thing to put on your poster). We advise against bringing extra materials as they can be too much information for the audience, and there will not be a good space to display them.

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