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PhD-presentation and Pitching2026VT, 3.0 credits
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Course plan
No of lectures
5 sessions
Recommended for
Enrolled as a PhD-student at LiU – studied for at least 6 months
The course was last given
New course
Goals
After completing the course, the student should:
- Be able comfortable present and pitch their own research to academics,
industry
- Be able to select what is most important to focus the
presentation/pitch on based on the goal of the presentation and target group
- Be able to give constructive feedback to other PhD-students about their
research and presentation techniques.
Prerequisites
Enrolled as a PhD-student at LiU – studied for at least 6 months
Organization
Course responsible:
- Diana Unander, Research coordinator
- Karin Ackerholm, Innovation coordinator
Content
- Session 1: Lecture on presentation, pitch technique and target group
adaptation. Review of NABC and test a 2-minute pitch without feedback or short
feedback from fellow PhD-students.
- Session 2: Preparation of a 4 min pitch for other researchers. Pitch
session with a focus on research - how do you present your research to other
researchers - partly within the same subject area and partly interdisciplinary?
Participants get to present their pitches and get feedback – based on the
feedback, rework the pitch to improve. Iterate 2 times.
- Session 3: preparation of 4 min pitch for people working with
funding/investors. Pitch with a focus on getting funding – how do you present
your research to show that its novel, important is worth funding. Participants
get to present their pitches and get feedback – based on the feedback, rework
the pitch to improve. Iterate 2 times.
- Session 4: Preparation of a 4 min pitch for industry. Pitch session
with a focus on industry - how do you present your research to colleagues,
managers and other companies? Participants get to present their pitches and get
feedback – based on the feedback, rework the pitch to improve. Iterate 2 times.
- Session 5 Conclusion - opportunity for reflection - what have you
learned, what do you take with you?
Literature
Lectures
Lecturers, pitch sessions with feedback.
Examination
The examination of the course will be the 3 pitch sessions, how well the student present with the relevant target group in mind and take feed-back and adapt the pitch.
Examiner
Fredrik Heintz
Credits
3
Comments
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