MPH5242 Psychosocial Work Environment

Assessment details

Building upon the feedback you received for Assessment 3a: Report proposal, you are to give a presentation on your chosen research topic for your final report, that demonstrates a critical understanding of the topic under investigation. This report presentation will inform your final assessment for this unit: Assessment 3c: Final Report. You should use the questions, discussion and feedback you receive from your presentation to refine your research for your report.

Note: the plan is that block days will be conducted face to face. For this you are required to prepare and submit a PowerPoint presentation, which you will give live during the block days. If block days cannot be held face to face, you are required to submit a pre-recorded 5 minute video or a narrated PowerPoint presentation. Please ensure you remain within the allocated time of 5 minutes duration. Your presentation should be up to 6 slides (including one slide for your references).

Your oral presentation should:

discuss your research question

provide an explanation of the context or problem under investigation

elaborate on three important issues about the context or problem which your final report will cover present a critical overview of the literature that demonstrates your research on the topic

discuss the expected outcomes of the research and recommendations for practice.

You may want to create appropriate subheadings to ensure you address the points above.

Your presentation should be based on peer-reviewed scientific literature that you have sourced for yourself through literature and database searches; that is, scientific journal articles, papers, books and so on. You can also reference published government reports and publications, institutional reports and regulatory standards, and other similar official materials. Do not use general websites for information. You must not use Wikipedia.

If your presentation includes the intellectual property (authored material) of others (including books, journal articles, magazines, news articles, websites, social media, etc.) they must be given appropriate attribution.

You must cite all of your sources using the Vancouver referencing style and provide a full reference list on the last slide.

Creating a video, or narrated PowerPoint

You can choose to either make a video of yourself presenting, as if to a live audience, or create a narrated PowerPoint presentation. Click on the links below for further information about how each of these work.

To create a video

To create a video, you can choose to:

Record it using the video recorder on your phone or similar device.

Use desktop software (such as Panopto) to record yourself presenting via the camera on your computer or laptop.

Note: you will not be marked on the production quality of the video unless the sound or vision is so poor that is it too difficult to understand.

To create a narrated PowerPoint presentation

You can create a narrated PowerPoint presentation through:

Use desktop recording software (such as Panopto) to create a narrated PowerPoint presentation, which is uploaded as a video.

Insert recordings of your voice into PowerPoint slides, which are submitted as a PowerPoint presentation. See this website How to do a voiceover on PowerPoint.

Tips for creating your presentation in PowerPoint

The only technical requirement here is that you have the Windows 2018 Office Suite. If your laptop does not have Windows 2018, we suggest you source a computer that has Windows 2018 or access PowerPoint through through MoVE (Monash Virtual Environment) https://www.monash.edu/learning-teaching/innovation/educational-technologies/move You will be asked to download a file and then you'll get access to the entire Office Suite. Once you can access a working version of PowerPoint 2018, you can follow the steps outline in this link.

For pre-recorded presentations that will need to be viewed online via Moodle, previous experience has shown that transitions within a slide are better avoided, as they do not reliably work in the online Moodle settings..

Design the presentation and start by working on an initial script/draft of the content

The first draft is by definition imperfect. What you are aiming for is a rough draft so prioritise the key message and supporting information that you want to get across in this presentation. If the information you are providing is not relevant to the key message, go back to the drawing board.

Work on the script in manageable 'chunks' - record over one slide at a time

Focus on what can be delivered in each slide and opt for less in each slide. The great thing about recording on PowerPoint with is that if you don't like the recording on a particular slide, you can delete it. You will save yourselves a lot of time if what you delete is the recording on one slide rather than recording over the entire set of PowerPoint slides. You can save yourselves a lot of heartache by recording over one slide at a time.

Keep refining the script for each slide to achieve a better flow overall

Listen to the recording, one slide at a time and take notes about what you can realistically change.

Before you start recording, check the audio and/or video with a trial recording and problem-solve with what you have at your disposal

If the audio quality in your trial recording is not great, think about what you can change like the location of where you're recording. Is there a different set of headphones around that you could try recording? If the video is is not great, try a different part of the house/workplace to get better lighting/less echo.

Questions to consider when approaching readings

The amount of reading that you are expected to do at university can be daunting. However, with some preparation and using critical reading techniques, you can learn to read effectively and efficiently. Answering the following questions of the readings will help you learn to read more effectively.

What is the main theme or point of the piece?

What aspects does the writer focus upon, and why?

What explanations or supportive evidence are drawn upon? What assumptions are being made?

Do you find any of the ideas or information confusing or intriguing?

What conclusions might you draw from the piece, and are they necessarily the same as the writer's conclusions?