AI3SD Video: Producing a good Poster

Published date: 4 August 2021

Additional Information: Jonathan Lightfoot has worked in IT training at the University of Southampton for 15 years and is currently a Learning Designer within iSolutions (the IT Dept). After getting a degree in Politics he qualified as a teacher of Social Sciences in secondary education but was drawn into teaching IT before moving on to become a software trainer at the turn of the millennium. He worked for Key Training in London for 8 years running courses across the MS Office suite from introductory level courses to corporate graduate training at VBA programming level. He is a Microsoft Office Specialist Master. He believes passionately in empowering others to develop new skills and is the University’s LinkedIn Learning academic support and system administrator. Over the last 5 years he has delivered workshops on design principles for academic research posters for the Doctoral College and individual academic schools at the University, drawing on collaborations with IT colleagues, academics, the University Library, the Doctoral College and the University’s Print Centre. Heather Mackenzie is the Doctoral College Professional Development Programme Manager at the University of Southampton, having previously worked as the Researcher Development Coordinator at the University of Portsmouth. In these roles, she’s been supporting Postgraduate Researcher Development at a University-level since 2013 alongside teaching postgraduate researchers, maintaining an active research profile, and supervising doctoral students. She completed a BSc in Psychology before working as a Research Assistant looking at the role of self-efficacy in retention and achievement of undergraduates. Heather then successfully completed her PhD in Health Sciences developing a new quality of life scale for teenagers with food allergies, before working on a variety of research projects from cluster-randomised trials of flooring for falls prevention, to systematic reviews of worldwide food allergy prevalence, and presenting research at national and international conferences both small and large. While working as a researcher, Heather also supervised doctoral students and lectured on evidence-based practice and research methods for healthcare practitioners. She’s currently a co-author on a Cochrane systematic review and has a keen research interest in doctoral education.

Venue - Dates: Skills4Scientists Seminar Series 2021, 2021-07-07 - 2021-09-02

Related URLs:

• https://youtu.be/Hj6XnsZtgTo

Keywords: AI3SD, AI3SD Event, Posters, Presentations, Research, Scientific Communication, Training

Local EPrints ID: 450845

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/450845

DOI: doi:10.5258/SOTON/P0138

PURE UUID: b1299b69-9182-4b24-ae14-ca2c1478dd68

ORCID for Heather Mackenzie: orcid.org/0000-0002-5241-0007

ORCID for Jeremy G. Frey: orcid.org/0000-0003-0842-4302

ORCID for Samantha Kanza: orcid.org/0000-0002-4831-9489

ORCID for Nicola Knight: orcid.org/0000-0001-8286-3835

Date deposited: 16 Aug 2021 16:39

Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:59