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Improve your presentations - storytelling, rhetorical strategies & slides
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3933-26-00-01	There are 15 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 03/08/2026

Date and time	01.09.2026, at: 08:30 - 16.09.2026, at: 15:00
Regular seats	18
Course fee	4,680.00 kr.
Lecturers	Naja Hulvej Rod
ECTS credits	2.00

Contact person	Kathe Jensen E-mail address: kje@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration SUND E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment guidelines This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list. The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee Course title Improve Your Presentations – Storytelling, Rhetorical strategies & Slides Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Define the key message of the presentation 2. Tailor the presentation to a specific audience 3. Structure the presentation in an engaging way 4. Build effective slides to support the arguments 5. Master techniques to maintain a calm, controlled voice and communicative body language Content How many boring research presentations have you sat through? Presentations where the message was unclear, and you had a hard time staying focused… Our society relies on researchers to find solutions. But essential research is often not communicated in ways that are appropriate for the audience. That’s why we run this course. With simple techniques, you will learn how to tailor your message to be relevant for your specific audience. You’ll learn how to frame your message to make it beneficial for listeners. We’ll look into slides. And you will learn how to structure your presentation, so that the audience stay engaged until the very last word. What students say: “Incredibly useful. I feel like I’ve improved tremendously. All my presentations will be better from now on.” “I wish I had taken the course at the beginning of my PhD.” “Best PhD course I have been on. And it’s my last.” The theoretical foundation of this course is built on the work of the late Greek philosophers Aristotle and Marcus Tullius Cicero, but also references more recent researchers such as Alan H. Monroe and James C. McCroskey. Participants This course is designed for PhD students who want to improve their presentation skills. No specific prior qualifications are required. Relevant graduate programmes The course is relevant for PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: All graduate programmes Language English Form We combine lectures with group work, discussions, Walk&Talk, video exercises, body and voice exercises, and peer-to-peer feedback. Teachers Silas Stoltenberg Addington, cand.scient.san.publ, Cofounder, Madeclear Anders Devantier, cand.scient, Cofounder, Madeclear Emil Andersen, cand.mag. in rhetorics, Assistant professor, University College Copenhagen Dates Three days: 1st, 8th, and 16th, of September 2026 Course location CSS, Center for Sundhed og Samfund, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 København Registration Please register before 3rd of August 2026 Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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