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Conference posters and presentations are a great way to concisely present your emergent research in an engaging and easily accessible format. Presenting a poster at a conference offers a way to try out ideas you have about a topic and take advantage of the opportunity to dialogue about them with other researchers. Poster design benefits from the inclusion of charts, graphs, and other visual content that will be attractive to your audience and set your poster apart from the others.  See below for resources on how to develop a poster presentation!

We have collected many samples of work by MSP community members in our in-house repository, located within our library catalog. View this video to learn how to access these!

In addition to basics such as a title, authors, and their affiliation(s), posters present information about your research using the same outline as a research paper:

• Introduction - the "why" of your research initiative,  its relevance to the field, and background on the development of your research question

• Methods - how you explored or intend to explore the question

• Findings - the results of your research

• Discussion - your conclusions and their implications

Note that while there are many online templates available for poster design, MSP has its own templates for when you want to "represent"! They can be found here. 

Common applications used for poster design include Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe InDesign. As an MSP community member, you have access to Office 365, which includes PowerPoint. Just make sure your poster dimensions are in a ratio of 4:3 ( In PowerPoint, change the slide size in the Design tab).

And if you're ready to really go outside the box, check out this way of conceptualizing your design!