You submit your abstract via the abstract system. To login please use the same access credentials as for the Course Calendar.

The online submission of abstracts opens on 15 September 2019 and closes on 1 November 2019.

The maximum number of characters for abstracts is 1,700 (including spaces).

When submitting the abstract you are asked to:

 

• Specify your current year in PhD or whether you are a Researh year or Research honour programme student
• Choose if your research is “basic” or “clinical”
• Choose the keyword that best describes your area of research
• (only third year PhD students) Choose your preferred role as “co-chair” or “oral”

You must write the name of your main supervisor, as well as specify which graduate programme (GP) you are enrolled in (GP: Biomedicine, GP: ClinFO (Clinical Medicine, Odontology and Forensic Medicine) or GP: Public Health.

Even if you have not had any new results within the last year, you are still expected to participate in the PhD Day and to submit an abstract. Do not reuse an old abstract – rephrase it and give it a new title.

Once the abstract book is available (in January), you can find your role (flash talk, poster presentation, oral presentation or chairman) by searching for your name. When available, you can find the abstract book in the right sidebar.

Please make sure that your abstract has been approved by the co-authors.  

This year, Research year students, Research honours programme students and first year PhD students are invited to submit an abstract and give a flash talk. 

How to do a flash talk

The flash talk should be in English and should take no more than 2 1/2 minutes. This time limit will be strictly enforced by the chairs.

The presentation should be understandable to non-specialists and it is recommended that you limit your presentation to a maximum of four slides. Besides, an initial slide with your name and affiliation and the title of your presentation is allowed (not included in the maximum of four slides).

After your presentation, there will be 2 minutes for questions.

Please convert your slides into pdf format ("horizontal") and send them by e-mail to lkr@au.dk no later than 6 January 2020. ONLY pdf format will be accepted

In the subject field of the mail, please write: "PhD Day 2020_ Flash talk_"your full name""  

If you choose to present your Flash talk without slides, you need to send us a slide with the title, your name and number.

Prize for best presentation

The session chairs will select the best flash talk which is rewarded with a prize.

The assessment criteria will be as follows:

• Is your talk comprehensible to people outside your research area?
• Are your slides easy to read and comprehend, and do they support your talk?
• Are your aims and hypotheses clear?
• Can you convey the importance and perspectives of your research to the audience?

This year, second year PhD students are requested to submit an abstract and give a poster presentation.

The posters are divided into groups and each group has two chairs.

The poster presenter is asked to give a four minutes oral presentation in English followed by two minutes for discussion. The chairs will select the best poster, which will be rewarded with a prize. 

Criteria for selection of best posters

The chairs will be asked to make their selection on the basis of the following points:

• Intelligibility to someone outside your field
• Layout (relation between text and illustrations)
• Clarity (purpose, hypothesis)
• Logical presentation
• The stage of the presenter's PhD project will be taken into account

Poster content and poster presentation

The poster should contain the background for the project, the aim of the project, the methods used, the results that have been obtained and the conclusions.

The content of the poster should be understandable without requiring an oral explanation. Avoid large tables of data. Your poster should encourage discussion, not merely present complex methods and results.

A poster presentation should include a) the background and purpose for the study, b) the main findings, and c) a round off with a conclusion and, if possible, future perspectives.

All posters must be in English.

Printing

Posters can be printed free of charge by SUN-TRYK, the printing facility at Health.

E-mail your poster to  posters@trykkeri.au.dk as an attached file. File-format must be PDF (all fonts embedded) or Powerpoint. The submission deadline for poster printing is 2/1/2020

Poster session details

Please make sure to meet the following requirements regarding your poster:

• The poster should be no larger than 70 cm wide by 112 cm tall. This narrow format is necessary due to the limited space available
• The text should be large enough to read from a distance of 1½ meter
• Results presented in a graph format are effective
• The poster should be used as basis for the short oral presentation
• Poster number, poster-session as well as location for each poster group will be announced on this website during December
• Pins or the like to mount your poster will be provided on the day
• Posters should be hung up between 16:30 and 19:00 on the day before or on the day of the event
• between 7:30 and 8:00.
• Posters may be removed from 12:30 on the day of the event. Posters that have not been removed at 15:15 will be placed near the reception desk in The Lakeside Lecture Theatres and can be collected after conclusion of the scientific programme of the PhD day. No responsibility will be taken for posters which have not been picked up at the end of the day.

A selection of the submitted abstracts is chosen for oral presentation. If your abstract is chosen, you will receive a notification from the Organizing Committee or the PhD administration.

The selection of abstracts for oral presentations on PhD Day will be based on the following:

• The ability to present your abstract in a manner that relates to the theme set for the given PhD Day
• The scientific quality of the presented research and the coherency of the abstract.

There are 10 minutes for the presentation in English followed by five minutes for questions. The presentation should correspond to a presentation given at a conference.

The presentation should be understandable to non-specialists and it is recommended that you limit your presentation to a maximum of ten slides.

The presentation should be created in PowerPoints for PC. Please note, presenters for sessions O1-O5 must meet in the auditorium concerned between 7:30 and 8:00 AM on 24 January to save their presentation onto the auditorium hard disk and make sure to check that everything works.

Prize for best presentation

Session chairs will select the best presentation which is rewarded with a prize. The chairs will take into account how far your project has come. In addition, the following aspects are taken into consideration:

• The presentation is comprehensible to people outside the research area
• Slides are easy to read and comprehend
• The relationship between presentation and illustrations is obvious
• Slides support the presentation
• The purpose of the presentation (hypothesis) is clear
• The content is presented in a logical sequence (progression)
• The conclusion is unambiguous

Oral session

Two senior chairs and one co-chair (3^rd year PhD student) will be assigned to each of the oral sessions. Selected  3^rd year PhD students present their work followed by questions from the chairs and other listeners. After the session, the chairs select the PhD student who presented the best lecture. He/she will receive an award at the end of the day.

See the instructions for chairs at oral sessions for further information. 

Poster session

One senior chair and one-two co-chairs (3^rd year PhD students) will be assigned to each of the poster sessions. The PhD students will present their work followed by questions from the chairs and other listeners. After the session, the chairs select the student who presented the best entries. He/she will then receive an award at the end of the day.

See the instructions for chairs at poster sessions for further information.

Flash talk session

One senior chair and one-two co-chairs (3^rd year PhD students) will be assigned to each of the flash talk sessions. The PhD/research year/ research/ honours programme students will present their work followed by questions from the chais and other listeners. After the session the chairs select the student who presented the best entries. He/she will then receive an award at the end of the day.

See the instructions for chairs at flash talk sessions for further information.