Faculty of Science and Technology

Science and Technology Graduate School Poster Competition: Call for Posters

Faculty research students and early career contract researchers are invited to submit a poster for the Science and Technology Graduate School Poster Session at the Science and Technology Christmas Conference. Presentation of a poster will qualify PhD students for 2 Research Training Credits.

Who Can Enter?

There are two different categories for entrants: research students and early career contract researchers. A first prize of £200 will be awarded in each category, and there will be a runner-up prize of £100 in the research student category.

All current faculty research students, at any stage of their research, are eligible. Recently completed PhD students are also eligible provided their viva took place after 30th June . For the purpose of this conference, we define an early career contract researcher as someone who is within the first four years of their first postdoc.

Unfortunately, due to limitations on time and space, we can only display 60 posters. If the number of poster abstract submissions exceeds 60, we will ask departmental Postgraduate Directors of Studies to select which posters will be displayed. The number of posters allocated to each department will be based on the proportion of PhD students.

Format for Posters

Posters must describe the author's work and be intelligible to the general science and technology community, not just discipline specialists. Poster authors must be present during the poster session on Tuesday 20 December and be available to hang their posters on the afternoon or evening of the day before the conference.

Posters must be of A0 size (portrait or landscape), must not have been presented at a previous Science and Technology Christmas Conference and must clearly display:

For research students:

• The author's name
• The stage of the author's work (e.g. 1st, 2nd or 3rd year or part-time equivalent)
• The title of the author's work
• The author's department
• The author's supervisors' names
• "Faculty of Science and Technology Research Conference, Tuesday 20 December 2011"

For early career contract researchers:

• The author's name
• The title of the author's work
• The author's department
• The author's PI
• Who (if any) are the partners involved
• Who has funded the research
• The start/end date of the project
• "Faculty of Science and Technology Research Conference, Tuesday 20 December 2011"

Failure to display these pieces of information will disqualify the author from the chance to win a prize.