About this workshop

Along the path of our academic journey, we often encounter the exciting prospect of attending a conference.  This is soon followed by anxiety and fear of actually preparing a Conference Abstract/Paper from our work.  Well, Fear Not!!  Despite this involving planning, reflecting and a slightly “different” style of writing to that of a dissertation/thesis or proposal, we are here to guide you towards an excellent conference paper.

In this 2-part interactive workshop, we will journey together through the maze of different conferences and their own regulations/policies. Together, we will decipher Conference Instructions for Authors and you will actively start preparing and collating your own manuscript.  We will spend time on the basic writing structure as well as the required referencing and formats.  We will engage in self-critique and in-house “peer-review” sessions.

The main objective will be to leave you with confidence in your own writing ability and increase that excitement of sharing your paper with the greater academic fraternity.

Please do not feel that if you have not attended Part 1 that you should not attend Part 2.  We aim to create each workshop as stand-alone workshops and certain concepts from Part 1 will be repeated and embedded into Part 2.

 

What previous attendees have said about this workshop:

• “The grouping idea works well in connecting people.”
• “I knew that one has to prepare, but a special emphasis was put on this aspect which I found very helpful.”
• “I learnt how to overcome fear of presentations.”

 

About the presenter

More than 12 years’ experience as a quantitative scientific researcher; supervised and graduated more than 30 postgraduate students; published more than 40 publications; internal and external reviewer of theses; invited presenter at national and international conferences

 

Format

Online via MS Teams*

*While this workshop is currently scheduled to take place on-line, we may change it to a face-to-face workshop as campus restrictions ease, venues become available, and further consideration is given to the pros and cons of online offerings.

 

What level of study is the workshop aimed at?

Postgraduate Diploma	Yes
Honours	Yes
Masters	Yes
PhD	Yes
Postdoctoral Fellow	Yes
Junior Research Fellow	Yes

 

Which faculty/faculties is the workshop aimed at?

Humanities	No
Commerce (including GSB)	Yes
Law	No
EBE	Yes
Science	Yes
Health Sciences	Yes

* While the workshop is aimed at certain levels of study and faculties, anyone is welcome to join, as long as any stipulated requirements are met, such as participation and/or preparation.

 

Requirements

Preparation for the workshop	It will be useful to attend this workshop with some idea of your local/national and international conference options.
Level of participation at the workshop	This workshop expects participants to be fully verbally and practically engaged and participatory.  Group and interactive plenary discussions will be embedded throughout the workshop.
MS Teams	It is recommended that you install the MS Teams software onto the device that you will be using to join the workshop, so that you have full functionality of the software features. If you require any technical assistance with this task or require guidance in using the software, please contact the ICTS helpdesk at icts-helpdesk@uct.ac.za or on +27 21 650 4500. When registering for this workshop, you will be prompted to input your UCT credentials, including UCT e-mail address, for security reasons.  A confirmation e-mail will then be sent to the UCT e-mail address with which you registered and will contain the MS Teams link to join the workshop on the day. To join the online workshop on the day, log into MS Teams via the profile linked to the e-mail address with which you registered and not a personal or company profile, to avoid access issues.