Election post
Status
Elected
By serving as Head of Journal Club, I aim to help:
- Students share their research and gather useful opinions from the audience via interactive presentations
- Presenters and audience to gain invaluable skills like public speaking, presentation skills, and critical thinking
- Society members to explore different research areas by presenting any research articles of interest
- UCL-based research prioritized
I shall:
- Review and offer advise on articles and presentation organization
- Host and organize smooth and interactive presentations
Changes I propose:
- Joint journal club sessions with other life sciences clubs to discuss interdisciplinary articles
- Increase audience size and presentation impact
- Increase topic diversity
- Make possible more frequent sessions while maintaining reasonable workload for committee members
- Presentations by multiple presenters as an option
- Optimal for authors of co-authored or co-reviewed articles
- Prepare presenters for group presentations
- Less stressful and encourages more students to present
My experience:
- Co-planning and -hosting a virtual youth STEM conference this summer
- Joining and presenting in multiple journal club sessions during 2 previous internships in university labs
- Joining multiple external research seminars and conferences