Presentation Skills

Developing Your Core Competency in:

Presentation Skills

Presentation and public speaking skills are required of all graduate students and postdoctoral scholars for success in their programs and chosen career fields. For English language learners, additional resources are available to help address the challenges of communicating in a non-native language.

Identify resources to support your professional development. Click on categories below to expand.

• Quick Quarterly Guide - F24

• For an overview of activities and events use this quick quarterly guide:

  Presentation Skills handout

• Online and Asynchronous Training Content
• Presenting Online with Hugh Kearns (link requires UCD login)
   
• Scheduled Virtual and Live Workshops and Events

• List of workshops and events here.

• Courses and Programs

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  - Courses for English Language Learners. The quarters offered and credits vary by term. Please go to the website to find the most up to date information.

• Individualized Advising

• One-on-One mentoring or specialized programming to meet your individual needs is available. 

  Presentation Skills Consultations (Click on 'Other' and request Graduate/Postdoc consultation) Available through partnership with the Center for Educational Effectiveness (CEE), receive feedback to make your presentations more engaging and better learning experiences for your audience.
  Teaching and Presentation Anxiety A common fear, but highly treatable! Receive tips for controlling teaching and presentation anxiety by making an appointment with a counselor at Counseling Services.
  Advising for English Language Learners International and Academic English offers workshops every quarter for graduate students. These workshops are designed for multilingual graduate students as supplements to the Language & Culture Coaching Program. Any UCD grad students or postdocs may attend. Attendees do not need to register for a course.
  Tutoring or Language Exchange The UC Davis Language program hosts the Tandem Language Exchange.  This program helps a native speaker of one language to find a native speaker of another language to help each other in language learning.

• Community Building and Activities

• Building community is essential to success.  Consider participating in the following activities:

  Grad Slam A competition to find the best three-minute research presentation given by a UC Davis graduate student. The winner of the campus-wide competition will compete in the UC system-wide competition in spring quarter!  Prizes are awarded at both competitions.
  Postdoctoral Research Symposium The UC Davis Postdoctoral Research Symposium is a great opportunity to UC Davis postdoctoral researchers from all fields to present their work, to learn about other work performed throughout UC Davis, and to network across disciplines. Prizes are awarded for the best talks and posters in each session.

• Additional Resources
• - Graduate Student English Language Learner Support