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Every researcher knows the feeling: your topic is complex, your data are complicated and your time is scarce. And yet, whether at a family gathering, for a journalist, for your faculty blog or for the stakeholders of your project, you want to make it clear in a short time why your work matters. The annual PRESS>SPEAK competition helps researchers do exactly that. Four participants share their experiences and their best communication tips.
Every year, UAntwerp organises PRESS>SPEAK, an annual writing and presenting competition. The third and last winning text of 2023, written by Julia Di Stefano (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences), is about recreating a whole brain.
Every year, UAntwerp organises PRESS>SPEAK, an annual writing and presenting competition. The first winning text of 2023, written by Ilenia Serra (Faculty of Science), is about electrons.
Every year, UAntwerp organises PRESS>SPEAK, an annual writing and presenting competition. The first winning text of 2023, written by Hosna Ghaderi (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences), is about a revolution in eye surgery.
Your research has something special that you want to share with a large audience. That little corner of knowledge that you fully immerse yourself in, to break it open and make it understandable for people outside your domain. Clarifying without simplifying. You choose which details to mention or not, and you engage your audience in a story that invites them to search for more information. Sounds challenging? Definitely, but it’s increasingly necessary for any researcher.
Every year, UAntwerp organises PRESS>SPEAK, an annual writing and presenting competition. The second winning text, written by Jonas Lescroart (Faculty of Science), is about the mountain cat, an extremely rare and almost mystical cat species.
PRESS > SPEAK is the University of Antwerp’s annual presentation and writing competition. The presentations are often the first experiences of science communication for young researchers. See the results of the writing contest 2020.