Task: Research Presentation- Mini Research Project

Objectives

The purpose of this assignment is to enable students to evaluate professional communication aspects in relation to communication styles, skills and effectiveness, and to demonstrate the ability to critically analyse and communicate the key issues through a written report.

Background

Being able to present your research to an audience is a key skill for researchers to develop. There are a variety of different settings where you may be asked to do this, from the school or faculty research seminar to the international conference. Presentations sometimes take the form of posters as well as talks.

It is important that every presentation take account of whom the audience is. A seminar delivered to an interdisciplinary audience which may have no specialist knowledge of your field will be very different to a conference presentation in front of learned specialists - even if you are presenting essentially the same research at both venues.

For assistance in giving oral presentations,

see:

http://federation.edu.au/future-students/study-at- feduni/student-support/student-futures-program/study-skills/oral-presentations

Requirements

Each student is required to present an oral presentation or seminar of his/her research project. This presentation is expected to take approximately 10-12 minutes, with an additional 2 minutes for questions and comments from the audience. You are required to use presentation software (PowerPoint or so) for the purpose of this presentation.

This assessment gives the student an opportunity to demonstrate the key aspects of their research work to an audience and also to receive feedback on their research and the study conducted towards achieving the outcomes. The student will present a detailed overview of the study. The student should be prepared to answer questions about any aspect of the study. The following is a sample structure of a research presentation [Note: This is a guide ONLY structure, you are required to make your own structure covering all the key aspects of your own research]-

- Introduction:
o Background, context, overview
o Purpose of the study

- Summary of Research Questions and Purpose:
o Research questions, aims, hypotheses that are clear and specific
o Definition of the paradigm and methodology chosen for the study, including the rationale for the choice; introduction to conceptual or theoretical framework

- Summary of Relevant Literature:
o Current, balanced, relevant, significant

o Extensive

- Summary of Methods, Methodology and Data Collection:
o Variables used and relations between variables
o Data collection and measurement tools

- Summary of any other considerations/aspects of the research, e.g., [OHS/Safety and/or Ethics]