Hello, everyone,
This time, we’re going to talk about presentations, CITI training, and catch you up on where we are up to with the faculty advisors.
Let’s start with the last of these.
Faculty advisors
These have now been appointed, pending final sign-off. We’re not announcing this yet, because we’re waiting for everything to be signed off. So please be patient.
CITI Training
CITI stands for Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative. It provides cross-institution training in research skills, and is particularly focussed on research with human subjects. At Parami University, you have access to this, and you are expected to complete the relevant courses before you start the research. There’s a document called How to register and join CITI courses.pdf on canvas, and we’ll have a look through.
Once you’ve signed up, you’ll see a number of courses.
Courses compulsory for all
These are courses that you need to do, whatever your research.
- Humanities Responsible Conduct of Research OR Social and Behavioral Responsible Conduct of Research
Courses that may be useful for research with human subjects
If you are dealing with personal information, inviting participants to take part in your research, or doing any research with human subjects, you may also choose to complete the following.
- Researchers - Information Privacy & Security (IPS)
- OHRP: Participant-Centered Informed Consent Training
- Social-Behavioral-Educational (SBE) Comprehensive*
The CITI training gives you a basic framework for your research, but there may be some other optional modules that you could benefit from taking.
I’m going to give you 20 minutes to register, look around and explore. Then we can chat through.
Presentations
The presentations are due on the 10th November. This is a hard deadline. You must submit by then. I will be sharing the rubric in a few days, but we can get started thinking now.
- You have up to 10 slides, but you do not have to use them.
- The presentation is a chance to share your ideas with the class as a whole. Here, you should focus on the following:
- Simplicity — don’t make things over complex
- Clarity — make it clear what you are saying and why. Structure your content clearly
- Communication — the whole purpose of a presentation is to communicate to actual real, live human beings. Make sure you bear this in mind! As yourself for each slide: what is this communicating?
- Accessibility — don’t cram your slides with text that is hard to read, or with overwhelming amounts of content. See the slides ike the hand-rail as you go up and down stairs. You and your audience use them as a guide, but they are not the main point.
- AI — don’t use AI images or text. Please don’t!
- You will be presenting in the class while showing your slides. You have around 8 minutes to present, with a few minutes for questions.
- You are expected to attend ALL other students’ presentations.
The presentation dates are, as mentioned last week, 15th, 17th and 22nd November.
Mapping Presentations
Now, I’m going to give you 15 minutes** to map out a structure of your presentations. What will your slides be? What will be on each one? What does each one intend to convey to the audience? You may want to do this with pens and paper, rather than on your computer, as this can help you think more concretely.
Number your slides as you go.
Once you’ve had a go doing an initial map, we’ll talk about any issues.
Research Updates
For the final part of the session, I’m going to put you in your small research groups for updates on your research.