ECIC PhD Poster Competition

Objectives | Participation | Guidelines | Submission | Display | Judging and Prizes | Winners | Contact

Welcome to the 2011 ECIC PhD Poster Competition!

Posters are an effective way of visually communicating your research to a broad range of people. ECIC PhD students are therefore invited to design and submit a PowerPoint poster which summarises and illustrates their research topic, research question(s) / objective(s), methodology, results and conclusions (if available). The best two posters, as judged by 3 ECIC academics and fellow PhD students, will win a prize.

Objectives

1. To provide an opportunity to PhD students to communicate their research in a concise and summarised manner
2. Help PhD students explore the possibilities of connecting their research to other areas of research happening at ECIC
3. Provide a broad understanding of research portfolio of ECIC.

Participation

All PhD/ Research students (Adelaide based or remote with no exceptions) are required to participate and submit a poster illustrating their research.

Guidelines

1. Download the PowerPoint poster template of your choice only in the size of 24x36 inches from Scientific Poster PowerPoint Templates
2. The main idea and title of your poster should be identifiable from approximately 2-3 metres.
3. Recommended information to include: introduction, problem, research question / objectives, Design / method, results, conclusion and future research
4. Font sizes must be legible from approximately 2-3 metres i.e. at least 96-100 point for main heading, 30-36 point for subheadings and 18-24 point for standard text.
5. Recommended typefaces include Arial, Verdana, Tahoma and Times New Roman.
6. For emphasis underline, italicise or colour highlight text, but do not CAPITALISE
7. Blocks of text should not exceed three paragraphs and should be left-aligned; avoid centred and right-aligned text.
8. Use dot points, lists or tables to increase clarity and quantity of information.
9. Avoid abbreviations, acronyms and jargon, unless it is pertinent detail specific to your discipline.
10. Use only high quality graphics (i.e. graphs, illustrations and photos) as the centrepiece of your poster, as they need to communicate themes and relationships quickly.
11. Present numerical data in the form of graphs rather than tables, as graphs make trends in the data much more evident. If data must be presented as a table, keep it simple.
12. Avoid 3D graphs unless you are displaying 3D data, as 3D images can be difficult to interpret.
13. Text on graphs must follow the same guidelines as all other text on your poster, in order to be visible.
14. Leave a 3-5cm border around the entire poster to frame your work.
15. Colour selection should be simple and pleasing to the eye to help unify the poster.
16. Keep the layout basic and the text brief without overloading the poster. More material can mean less communication. Text should be balanced with graphics, about 50:50.
17. Include blank space to create a visually attractive poster that is not too ‘busy’.
18. Save your poster as a PDF document. To do this in PowerPoint:
1. Click on 'File'
2. Select 'Save As'
3. Save file as a PDF

Submission

All posters should be submitted as a PDF document via email by COB 22 October 2011.

Poster Display

The ECIC will print the posters and display them in the ECIC corridor on 2 November. They are also available for viewing online.

Judging & Prizes

All posters will be reviewed and the top two posters will be awarded a prize. One of the top two posters will be selected by a panel of 3 judges comprising of academics from the ECIC on 2 November 2011. Adelaide based students are invited to participate and answer questions in relation to their research.

The other winner will be selected through an online vote by PhD students.

Winners

Thank you to everyone who put in such a fantastic effort in creating posters for the competition. Congratulations to the following two winners:

• Student choice: Lois Hazelton
• Judges choice: Gregor Ferguson

Contact

Please direct all queries to:

Ronald Grill
ECIC PhD Student Convenor
Email