Poster Sessions
The In-Person Poster Session is 45 minutes long, including refreshments, to participants can discuss and chat among themselves.
The Virtual Poster Session will be online throughout the conference.
Instructions for creating a poster
Posters are used to provide information about your work in a brief and concise manner that looks attractive and interesting, and that will generate discussion. The overall poster should look clean, uncluttered, well-organized, and be easy to follow. Software that is commonly used to generate posters includes PowerPoint, PhotoShop, and Adobe Illustrator.
Below are some tips for creating a poster:
- Include your poster title, author names, institutional affiliation, and acknowledgment where applicable.
- Use headings, bullet points, and numbering to make it easy to follow the information.
- Headings for a research report might include: Introduction; Methods; Results; Discussion; for an “idea” report they might include: Summary Issue; Background; Conclusion.
Keep your text under each heading clear and to the point. Remember! Keep it simple. Place your major points in the poster and save the non-essential, but interesting highlights, for follow up discussion or the talk. Your final conclusions or summary should leave readers focused on a concise statement of your most important findings or ideas.
Ask yourself—Is the sequence of information evident? Is the content being communicated clearly? - Use tables and graphics to summarize information where possible instead of writing in narrative text. Tables and graphics offer information quickly and effectively at a glance.
- Use different colours and font size to keep your presentation organized and interesting.
- Use large font size for easier reading.
- Include your email address in case someone wants to contact you about your work.
- You can include 3-4 references for your poster, or create a QR code to your longer list of references so viewers can look at it online.
For In-Person Posters
Poster dimensions vary, but 48” x 36” (approx. 1220 x 90 cm) (landscape or portrait) is a common size. Setting dimensions before editing or adding components to the poster will reduce the amount of time needed to readjust the poster later.Make your poster in landscape or portrait orientation. Please be environmentally conscious when printing your poster – glossy paper takes more resources and is not recyclable!
For Virtual Posters
Poster: Create your poster to be A4 or US 8.5 x 11, and save it as a PDF. Uploade it into your conference account using the instructions below.
Accompanying 90 second introduction: The purpose of the poster 90-second talk is to give the audience the objective of your poster and its take-home point without going into details. The audience will read your poster to get the details. To prepare the 90-second video of your poster talk, please follow these instructions:
- Begin by stating your name, institutional affiliation, city, and country.
- State the objective or focus of your poster.
- State very briefly what you did in the work that is presented in the poster. For example, you could say “We interviewed 7 men and 8 women individually and asked them for their views on what they see as the top three factors that contribute to poverty in their region”, or “Five hundred and fifteen individuals recruited from the general community filled out an online anonymous research questionnaire that asks for their age, gender, ethnicity, their views related to mental health stigma, and their familiarity with mental illness in themselves and/or their family”.
- State your main finding or findings.
Additional Points: Your video should feature only you. Do not include your poster, slides, or any other images.
Instructions for creating a Poster 90-second introductory talk
The purpose of the poster 90-second talk is to give the audience the objective of your poster and its take-home point without going into details. The audience will read your poster to get the details. To prepare the 90-second video of your poster talk, please follow these instructions:
- Begin by stating your name, institutional affiliation, city, and country.
- State the objective or focus of your poster.
- State very briefly what you did in the work that is presented in the poster. For example, you could say “We interviewed 7 men and 8 women individually and asked them for their views on what they see as the top three factors that contribute to poverty in their region”, or “Five hundred and fifteen individuals recruited from the general community filled out an online anonymous research questionnaire that asks for their age, gender, ethnicity, their views related to mental health stigma, and their familiarity with mental illness in themselves and/or their family”.
- State your main finding or findings.
Additional Points: Your video should feature only you. Do not include your poster, slides, or any other images.