Tag Archives: conference

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22 Jan 2017

Question

All conferences should have a security team on standby to take care of those errant academics!

If you don’t want to be like Dr Mad at your next conference, you might want to read the Guardian’s follow up to last week’s link – A guide to asking good questions.

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Panel 1.
"20 minutes later..."
Dr Mad: ... AND THAT IS WHY ALL OF YOUR RESEARCH AND EXPERIENCE IS FOR NOTHING! YOU WILL LOOK BACK ON THIS DAY AND SEE IT AS THE START OF A NEW WORLD!

Panel 2.
Session Chair: Do you have some sort of question?
Dr Mad: AREN'T YOU GLAD I WAS HERE TO TELL YOU ALL HOW WRONG YOU ARE?!

Panel 3.
Dr Mad: WAAIIT...

Q&A

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15 Jan 2017

Q&A

There’s always one at every conference.

In 2013 the Times Higher Education Supplement published a list of the six conference questions every academic hears. Dr Mad appears to be going for either the “obstinate question” or the “display of superior knowledge” here.

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Panel 1.
"SCIENCEY TALK & Q&A"
Session Chair: Thank you for that detailed talk. Would anyone in the audience like to ask a question?
Dr Mad: Ooh! Me! Me! Me!

Panel 3.
SFX: SWIPE

Panel 4.
Dr Mad: Thank you. I'm sure it would have been a very interesting talk if I'd been listening. I know everyone here MUST want my opinion on this, so let me start a long monologue about my unrelated research.