Fw: Student Poster Sessions

Call for Posters: Society of Heterodox Economics Conference, 13-14
December 2004

On the first day of the conference, we will have a one hour poster session
during afternoon tea. PhD, MA and Honours students are invited to present
their work on posters, which will be on display for conference
participants. Each student stands next to her poster, together with a
mentor who will have read the student's abstract beforehand, who will
support the student with constructive comments and help the student engage
with other academics.

How to prepare a good poster

A poster consists of text and other graphic material mounted on a piece of
size A1 cardboard (i.e. the size of eight A4 sheets). We will provide
facilities to hang your poster on partitions (drawing pins or similar).
Your poster can outline your research project as a whole, or a particular
question you are grappling with. It is absolutely OK to present the
questions you are working on, you do not need to present complete answers.
Posters are aimed at generating interesting discussions with other
conference participants that are rewarding for you and your research.

When preparing a poster it is a good idea to first identify the key
concepts, ideas and questions you want the audience to understand, and what
the logical relationships between these concepts, ideas and questions are.
The next step in the preparation of a successful poster then focuses on how
to visualise these relationships.

As a poster is intended to give the viewer an overview over the research in
question, it is important to limit the basic structure of the poster to the
most important issues and to use key words in large letters to denote them.
It is perfectly OK to have these key words written by hand, preferably with
large markers or big crayons. Keep in mind that the viewers will get a
first impression of the logic of your research when standing a few meters
away from your poster. This is when you want to catch their interest, so
colours and graphical presentation are important.

You can then use some smaller typed text to elaborate on particular points
which you would like to discuss with others or on which you would like to
receive feedback. You can stick such text onto the cardboard next to the
relevant keywords. Make sure that the difference in size clearly indicates
that this is the more detailed information you would like the viewer to
consider once they have an overview and their attention has been captured.

How to submit your poster proposal

Please send as soon as possible an abstract of 200 ? 300 words to
christina.ho@uts.edu.au that gives us a clear enough idea of your research
so that we can identify an interesting mentor for you. We work hard to make
the poster session an event where you can make good contacts that help you
with your research, and where you can be supported in what you do. We will
publish the poster abstracts on the conference website, so that conference
participants can inform themselves beforehand and think about relevant
material they could contribute to your research. If you have particular
questions, feel free to ring Christina Ho on (02) 9514 1946, or Ingrid
Schraner on 0405 357 236.

Peter Kriesler
School of Economics
UNSW
Sydney 2052
http://economics.web.unsw.edu.au/people/pkriesler/
Received on Mon Nov 22 03:06:42 2004