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Week 1: Introduction Contents of the course. Assessments. Introduction to Communications Skills: knowing the audience, audio-visual reinforce- ment, styles of delivery, styles of material. Rules of three. Group Work: Each group will be given a target audience for scientists’ work to discuss and to decide on the main points for presenters to keep in mind when targeting that audience. Preparation for session 2: Select and practice a tongue-twister Week 2: Presentation Tools: Voice and Body. Proper use of the voice for verbal presentation. What to do with the body while presenting. Group Work: Each person stands up and says the tongue-twister (to their group, so two meter voice, not 20 meter voice) they have prepared and the rest of the group provide feedback on their most and least effective use of voice and body while they said it. Preparation for session 3: Prepare Draft Title and Overview slides for your Final Presentation. Week 3: Presentation Tools: Multimedia Aids Dos and Don’ts of slides and other visual and audio aids. Group work: Critique each other’s Draft Title and Overview Slides. Preparation for Session 4: Record a draft version of your Introduction Week 4: Electronic Presentations; Live online presentations, pre-recorded presentations, explanatory videos. Guidelines and Advice for different forms of online presentation. Group Work: View and critique each other’s recorded introduction. Week 5: Presentation Practice Session Short version (2–3 minutes) of each student’s final presentation. Non-marked written feedback will be provided by the lecturer. Week 6: Live Presentation Session 1 Audience constructive feedback, as time allows. Written marks and feedback will be provided by the lecturer, Week 7: Live Presentation Session 2 Audience constructive feedback, as time allows. Written marks and feedback will be provided by the lecturer,

In-person lectures In-class group work Practice presentations.

While students are allocated to groups for group-work within class, and in the hope that this will also provide mutual support outside class-time, all assessments in this course are individual. Draft Presentation Slides (20%) A draft set of slides for the final presentation. Live Presentation (40%) A live 4–5 minute presentation of the material from a recent (2022 or later) paper in a suitable Environmental Science journal (see separate list). Recorded Presentation (40%) A recorded “online” 4–5 minutes version of the same presentation.

The core coursework will involve presenting the main results of a real published academic paper. A paper should be chosen from the list of journals below: • Any Nature Group journal. For example Communications Earth & Environment https://www.nature.com/***** ; https://www.nature.com/***** • Any Public Library of Science journal. For example PLOS Climate https://plos.org/***** https://journals.plos.org/***** • Environmental Health Perspectives https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/***** • Global Food Security https://www.sciencedirect.com/***** • Global Ecology and Biogeography https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/***** • Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/***** • Applied Energy https://www.sciencedirect.com/***** • Environmental Science and Ecotechnology https://www.sciencedirect.com/***** • Environment International https://www.sciencedirect.com/***** • One Earth https://www.cell.com/***** • Energy & Envirronmental Materials https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/***** • Environmental Science & Technology https://pubs.acs.org/***** • Water Research https://www.sciencedirect.com/***** • Business Strategy and the Environment https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/***** • Eco-Environment & Health https://www.sciencedirect.com/***** • Global Change Biology https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/***** • Carbon Research https://link.springer.com/***** • Energy & Environmental Science https://www.rsc.org/*****

The lecturer has been trained in university education, has over 25 years of experience as a lecturer, and has over 30 years experience as a researcher presenting at international conferences. He has given public lectures, keynote speeches, and panel presentations to audiences ranging from small groups to hundreds.