
Other forms of publishing: Posters
Benefits
- Opportunity to meet, advertise and discuss research within the academic community.
- Opportunity to raise the profile of your research.
- Develops personal and professional skills, especially those of communicating findings.
- Critically evaluate your own work and that of others.
- Provides the opportunity to build interdisciplinary relationships.
- Opportunity to develop and practice presentation skills.
- If a paper isn't accepted at a conference, you can be offered opportunity to present a poster instead. This has the potential to reach the same audience but in a slightly more informal way.
- When presenting a poster at a conference you usually have a set time to stand next to your poster and answer questions, you can network and build useful contacts within your research field.
- Can also be used as an advertising tool after the conference or presentation.