Body Language and Delivery Skills: Presenting Research Confidently, Clearly

Develop a confident, authentic presenting style and communicate your research with clarity, generosity and impact.

This workshop provides participants with strategies to understand body language and the art of confident, generous and clear presenting. We will begin by unpacking participants’ own habits and received wisdoms, considering possibilities and rehearsal practices. From there, we’ll work towards thinking about developing each researcher’s unique style — one that feels comfortable, sustainable and genuine.

This workshop is part of the Engaging Research Communication Program curated by the Researcher Development Academy. The program supports the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition and provides graduate researchers the opportunity to develop effective research communication skills and cultivate their confidence and authoritative expert voice as a researcher. All abilities, styles and levels of experience welcome.

Antonia Pont is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin, where she teaches, researches, and supervises PhD students. A long-term writer, meditator, and yogi, she has a keen interest in physicality, the body’s patterns and strategies for relaxation and ease. She has presented in many different modes across her career: from theatre, to launch speeches, to keynotes, to international conferences in-person, to international conferences online, to video artworks, to O’week welcomes, to interactive large cohort lectures. She lives with gratitude on unceded Wurundjeri lands, and her research addresses notions of time, habit, transformation, ethics and stability. Relevant recent books include: A Philosophy of Practising (2021, EUP), The Memory Library (2024, Spineless Wonders) You Will Not Know in Advance What You’ll Feel (2019, Rabbit Poets Series) — and Plain Life (NewSouth Publishing), forthcoming in 2025.

*Please note this is for Deakin University researchers only.