There will be two poster competitions at the Conference: one for postgraduate students and one for early career researchers. Delegates at the conference will vote on the posters and a prize will be awarded for the best poster in each category.
Display
Posters will be displayed throughout the two days of the Conference at the Royal College of Physicians. We would encourage you to be available next to your poster after lunch on both days to field questions related to your research.
Preparing a Poster
Option 1 – Existing Poster
You may use a poster that you have already prepared, so long as it is no larger than A1 size and the text is in English. If you choose this option, please advise Kathryn Hunter at Kathryn.Hunter@ed.ac.uk, and bring the printed poster with you to the conference.
Option 2 – New Poster
If you would like assistance preparing a new poster, the AHRC/SCRIPT Research Centre and the EAHL will cover the cost of printing and some design work.
You may EITHER use the design template provided by the Graphics Lab at the University of Edinburgh, OR you may design the poster yourself and submit it for printing only.
The design work and printing will be done by the Graphics Lab, Learning Technology Section, University of Edinburgh. You must put "EAHL Conference" in the subject heading of your email, so that you will not be charged.
There are two deadlines:
Please put "EAHL Conference" in the subject heading of all emails.
To use the design template you need to include the following details
For assistance, please contact Nicky Greenhorn at nicky.greenhorn@ed.ac.uk 0131 650 3293
For printing only
PLEASE NOTE: The EAHL Conference Poster Committee will pick the posters up from Graphics Lab and deliver them to the venue.
Designing your own poster
The more exact you can be in your instructions to the Graphics Lab the better.
They will email you a version based on your instructions: you will be able to comment on this version, liaising with them until you are happy with the final product.
If you wish to include a logo on your poster (eg., your university logo), you will need to obtain the necessary approval and send the logo in an appropriate format to the Graphics Lab.
If you design the poster entirely by yourself you can download "Producing Posters" from http://www.lts.mvm.ed.ac.uk/graphics/posters.htm for further guidance.
Images
It is not absolutely necessary to use images, but you may find this will enhance the visual appeal of your poster. A poster should not have too much text - it should be comfortably readable for a passer-by.
You can find images via Google images or on a variety of websites which offer free
or inexpensive images. Most of the images have conditions attached, so please read these carefully (e.g. you may need to notify the artist of the use of the image). If you are using images, please look at their file size: some images on the internet are very small and of very bad quality. Save them on your hard-drive and then use an image viewer to see how they will look at the size you want them to be.
Please cite the image, as with any academic citation. Include the artist's name, and
either the print source or the website source. Please be careful if you want to manipulate or change the image: all images are protected by moral rights.
If you want to use a picture of identifiable people (e.g. fellow students or staff), then you will need to obtain their consent.
If you have any concerns about the legal issues involved, please email Graeme Laurie: Graeme.Laurie@ed.ac.uk
We may, with your consent, place the posters online. If so, it will be important to make sure all potential copyright and data protection issues have been resolved. Please ask if you are unsure.
Questions/Queries
Please email:
Kathryn Hunter at kathryn.hunter@ed.ac.uk
Graphics Lab Contact
Nicky Greenhorn: nicky.greenhorn@ed.ac.uk; 0131 650 3293
Information and guidance on posters courtesy of Maksymillian Del Mar and the PhD Steering Committee, and Wendy Marsden, School of Law, University of Edinburgh.