{"id":604,"date":"2014-12-08T18:41:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T18:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/victoria14\/?p=31"},"modified":"2017-02-20T12:47:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T12:47:34","slug":"me-and-my-poster-the-first-global-soil-biodiversity-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2014\/12\/08\/me-and-my-poster-the-first-global-soil-biodiversity-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and my poster at the First Global Soil Biodiversity Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s barely two months into my PhD research and I have been to\u00a0an\u00a0international conference in France to present a poster on my research. This was the First Global Soil Biodiversity Conference<\/a>\u00a0held at the\u00a0Palais des Congr\u00e8s in Dijon, for four days between the\u00a02nd and 5th of December. I find conferences really scary, which\u00a0is\u00a0part of my motivation to attend as many as possible during my research to increase my confidence in presenting my research and networking. The week before I attended a very helpful course on networking organised by the Imperial College Graduate School<\/a>\u00a0so was armed with techniques to get the most out of the conference and to reduce my anxiety.<\/p>\n

I arrived in Dijon via\u00a0Paris, one of my supervisors, Dr Paul Eggleton was also attending and chairing a session so together we managed to navigate the Metro and arrive in Dijon. My first impressions of Dijon were that it was not so different to the UK, only, well, French. There were bicycles to hire just like London’s ‘Boris Bikes’ and a Ferris wheel in the\u00a0Place de la R\u00e9publique that reminded me of the London Eye and made me feel quite at home.<\/p>\n

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Le Bike de Boris?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Ferris<\/a>
Place de la R\u00e9publique, Dijon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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After finding and checking into my hotel I arrived at the conference venue ready to put up my poster for the poster session later that evening. Creating a research poster is not easy, I find it tempting to put too much information on it while the aim is to convey the most important points with as few words as possible, but lots of illustrations. They are also in some ways more stressful than a talk, as the poster session lasts 90 minutes and gives delegates more opportunity to ask questions about your research (they also have the disadvantage of not being able to be finished in a hurry on the train journey there!).<\/p>\n

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\"Palais<\/a>
Palais des Congr\u00e8s, Dijon, venue for the First Global Soil Biodiversity Conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Part of my PhD research involves collating data from other researchers, so as well as presenting \u00a0results from my Masters course in 2012\/13 my poster presented the aims of my PhD project and a gave a ‘call for data’ to make connections with researchers who may\u00a0able to provide data, and generally give some visibility to my project.<\/p>\n

\"Victoria<\/a>
Me and my poster: Responses of soil biotas to human impacts: from local to global<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite my nerves and travel-weariness I did not do too badly presenting my poster and spoke to some researchers who may have data suitable for my project or who may have study sites to sample. It was a shame that the posters were taken down at the end of the session – usually they are left up for the duration of a conference which gives more opportunity for delegates to the see\u00a0them, but the number of posters at this particular conference meant they needed to be moved ready for a new session the next day. Using the Internet however I increased exposure by publishing my poster on ResearchGate <\/a>(a website researchers use to share their work)\u00a0and tweeting during the rest of the conference, using hashtag #GSB14<\/a>\u00a0(well worth a look if you want to know\u00a0more about the conference).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s barely two months into my PhD research and I have been to\u00a0an\u00a0international conference in France to present a poster on my research. This was the First Global Soil Biodiversity Conference\u00a0held at the\u00a0Palais des Congr\u00e8s in Dijon, for four days between the\u00a02nd and 5th of December. I find conferences really scary, which\u00a0is\u00a0part of my motivation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3203,1],"tags":[7269],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-uncategorized","tag-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}