CONFERENCE ETIQUETTE: A GUIDE

This is a guide on some basic etiquette for presenting at a conference.  It is just guide. However, we would like to strongly encourage you to please take on board what we suggest here.  We hope this will be useful for everybody especially if this is your first time presenting.  We hope you enjoy presenting and cannot wait to hear what you have to present.

Acknowledgement of Country

We strongly suggest that all presenters please acknowledge country at the beginning of your presentation.  However, if you don’t feel comfortable doing this then you don’t have to. It is a volunteer thing and we respect your wishes not to. Also if your presentation contains Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander material please make viewers aware of this material also. 

Learn more about acknowledging Country here, here, here, and here.

Pictures of Human Remains

If your presentation is going to have pictures of human remains please prewarn people. This is the ethical thing to do and should be a practice that you will have to get use to doing if you are working with human remains.

No Sharing of Your Research

No Pictures - Let your audience know that you wish for no pictures to be taken at any point in your presentation or if it is okay at the beginning or ending to take a picture.

No Recording - Please let the audience know that wish for no recording of your presentation to occur. This is especially understandable since most people are presenting research that will be published in the future.

No social media - If you wish not to have your presentation shared on social media please make people aware.