Perfecting your pitch (one-to-one coaching sessions)

Sign up for a 15-minute spot between 1pm and 4pm. Present your Three Minute Thesis (3MT) or Pitch for Funds (P4F) pitch one-on-one with the workshop leaders, and receive personalised feedback. Be prepared and punctual.

Please bring your PowerPoint slide (on USB) and/or prop with you.

Workshop leaders

Peter Copeman

Peter is an award-winning senior lecturer in UC’s Teaching and Learning directorate, where he convenes the Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education and supports professional development for academic staff. His current research and teaching interests include: the application of performance theory and practice to presentation skills and pitching, and to pronunciation and speaking skills in TESOL; and the development of a culture of students as partners/co-producers in teaching and learning. Previously he worked in student learning support and TESOL UC, ANU and the University of Queensland, and was a theatre academic at a number of Australian universities, following a fifteen-year professional career as a theatre director, playwright and vocal coach. Since 2011 he’s provided annual 3MT pitch training at UC, and since 2014 also at ANU and RMIT.

Bernie Bissett

Bernie Bissett was the winner of the People’s Choice Award at the 2015 UC Pitch for Funds competition. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Physiotherapy at the University of Canberra, with 15 years’ experience as a physiotherapist specialising in intensive and acute care and clinical education. Bernie is also a fully qualified NHET-SIM (Simulation in Health Care) educator, and has completed advanced training in MaskED simulation. She was the invited Keynote Speaker at the ACT Allied Health Symposium (2015) on Patient-Centred Care and is frequently invited to speak at medical and nursing intensive care conferences nationally and internationally (e.g. Seventh International Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Conference, San Diego 2014). Bernie’s clinical PhD research through the University of Queensland has focussed on early rehabilitation of intensive care patients, including targeted strengthening of breathing muscles.