Training and practice for ECR presenters before IPC20254 June-4 July 2025
Organized by:
- Shelley Clark (McGill University), IUSSP Council
- Moana Rarere (University of Waikato), IUSSP Panel on Early Career Perspectives
- Ankit Sikarwar (Centre for Research on Social Inequalities,
Sciences Po Paris), IUSSP Panel on Early Career Perspectives
Effective communication of research findings is essential to our profession. To boost improve everyone’s conference experience and the quality of presentations at the forthcoming International Population Conference 2025 in Brisbane, the IUSSP Council, in collaboration with the IUSSP Panel on Early Career Perspectives, organized a Training and Mentorship Series for Early Career Researchers at IPC2025. Ankit Sikarwar and Moana Rarere each organized a Zoom sessions to help Early Career Researchers prepare good poster and oral presentations at IPC2025. These meetings were recorded and are now available on the IUSSP website: - How to prepare a good poster presentation (Ankit Sikarwar, Wednesday 4 June) – Watch video
- How to prepare a good oral presentation (Moana Rarere, Wednesday 11 June) – Watch video
Mentoring for Oral Session Presenters: Shelley Clark initiated a scheme to provide an opportunity for Early Career Researchers (ECR) to present and receive feedback on their presentations from more senior researchers before IPC2025. These practice sessions were aimed at providing feedback on presentation style rather than content. Mentors were asked to focus on providing constructive feedback on how to produce clear, readable, and engaging slides, pacing, as well as communicating clearly for an international and interdisciplinary audience. The target of this initiative was Early Career Researchers, but anyone who had a paper accepted in a Regular or Flash Session was eligible to participate. Mentors were defined as anyone who had experience both watching and giving high-quality presentations. - 98 Presenters in oral sessions initially applied to participate and practice presenting their slides.
- 62 mentors initially signed up to participate and offer their constructive feedback on presentations.
- 18 sessions of 90 minutes were scheduled between 17 June and 4 July. Each session included 2 mentors and up to 4 presneters were able to sign up for one session. A few of the earliest sessions in June had to be cancelled for lack of registered presenters, but the remaining sessions are all full.
The IUSSP is grateful to its members who volunteered their time for this initiative: Aishwarya, Ololade Adewole, Saroja Adhikari, Olusola Akanni, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham, Oyedunni Arulogun, Jalila Attafi, Bernard Baffour, Magali Barbieri, Jayanta kumar Basu, Ram B. Bhagat, Adebiyi Boco, Obasanjo Bolarinwa, John Bryant, Igor Cavallini Johansen, Ankita Chakrabarti, Tapan kumar Chakrabarty, Angela Chang, Jamaica Corker, Gouranga Dasvarma, Tizta T. Degfie, Laxmi kant Dwivedi, Albert Esteve, Stuart Gietel-Basten, Carren Ginsburg, Kate Golebiowska, Daniel Goodkind, Monica Grant , Abigail Greenleaf, Simon Gregson, Sarah Hayford, Shireen Jejeebhoy, Eduard Jongstra, K G Santhya, Sebastian Kluesener, Bernice Kuang, Vijay Kumar, Michael Kunnuji, Pearl Kyei, Sangeetha Madhavan, Claudia Masferrer, Peter Matanle, Ann Moore, Sivakami Muthusamy, Muhammed Aziz Ngouloure , Oksana Opara, Sunethra Perera, Claus Portner, Saumya RamaRao, Adrien Remund, Robert Rudolf , Unnati Saha, Harihar Sahoo, Rebecca Sear, Ilene Speizer, Orsola Torrisi, Tulika Tripathi, Sayeed Unisa, Nico van Nimwegen, Alyson van Raalte , Sara Yeatman.
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