Please prepare your presentation with the audience in mind. Most UKNSCC delegates are clinicians and will appreciate a clinical focus to your presentation.

Please note that if you would like to present data on abstinence from smoking we normally require CO-verified data to be presented. If you are not presenting CO-verified abstinence data then please supply a rationale for this.

Guidelines for presenting Paper Presentations

1. You must make your presentation within the time that you have been allocated. Session Chairs will be very strict about ending presentations that go overtime. If you are not used to public speaking or giving presentations then you might like to practice, and time, your presentation beforehand.

2. Power Point presentations are preferred and if you need to use an overhead projector then please let Conference Organiser Monique Tomlinson know (monique@exchangeconferences.org). The advice below is useful for either type of presentation:

• 1 slide per minute (so 15 slides maximum for most parallel paper sessions) is usually about right
• Don’t overload slides with too much text
• Remember the 6x6x6 Rule (6 Words per bullet, 6 Bullets per slide, 6 Lines per slide)
• Title every slide
• Use the same color scheme all the way through
• The 7 second rule (The audience needs to grasp the message within 7 seconds of the slide appearing)
• Use quality clipart (if it’s not good quality it’s better to use none at all)
• Visual break (Supplement slide after slide of straight text with some graphics just for a change of view)
• Keep it simple
• Make sure type in graphics is legible
• Fonts (Do not use fonts smaller than 24 points, No more than three fonts to a presentation, avoid overuse of bold, italic and especially all capitals)

If you have any questions about these guidelines or need some advice on preparing and presenting your work then please contact Andy McEwen on 020 3108 3069 or andy.mcewen@ucl.ac.uk

Guidelines for Workshops

Parallel sessions at the UKNSCC run for 1 hour and 15 minutes (unless otherwise advised) and a workshop will typically fill this time with a mixture of formal presentations, brainstorming, exercises, problem solving, participant feedback and questions and answers. This list is not exhaustive and the only rule really is that you should aim to involve participants as much as you can. You should have a clear aim of what you want to achieve in the workshop (i.e. what you want delegates to take away from it) and a realistic plan for achieving this (i.e. what workshop methods to use). A typical workshop outline may look like this:

1. Introduction (about 15 minutes)

2. Brainstorming (small groups or whole workshop)

3. Feedback

4. Small group exercise

5. Feedback

6. Whole group discussion including Q&A and agenda setting

7. Summary and conclusion

Guidelines for Poster Presentations

1. When preparing your poster for presentation please bear in mind that there will be a large number of delegates, so for the poster to have maximum value it should possible to read it from a distance of at least several feet. Information should be typed in large typeface. Charts, figures and illustrations should be simple and bold. Readability is the key.

2. Ensure that at the top of your poster your presentation title and the name(s) of the author(s) are clearly stated.

3. Each person will be allocated a poster board (see Programme page of UKNSCC website for room details).

4. Abstracts scheduled for poster presentations will be numbered and listed on the conference website. Your assigned number will be in the upper left hand side of the poster board.

5. Each presenter will be assigned a 150cm (height) by 100cm (width) (4.92’ by 3.28’) VERTICAL poster board space. The net area available for your poster will be 144cm (height) by 94cm (width) (4.72’ by 3.08’). Attachment to the poster board is by velcro tape only and there will be supplies of these available at the conference reception desk. Please note you may not write on, use pins or mark the poster boards in any way.

6. Each author is responsible for the assembly and removal of their poster.

7. The poster sessions have a designated time in which presenters are requested to be available at their poster to discuss its contents with conference delegates. Times are given on the programme page of the UKNSCC website

If you have any questions about these guidelines or need some advice on preparing and presenting your poster then please contact Andy McEwen on 020 3108 3069 or andy.mcewen@ucl.ac.uk