Life and health sciences research poster examples, in full

The reader is checking the design before the finding

Twelve boards, and the thing that separates them is the study behind them rather than the discipline on the title. Three report a comparison where people were allocated to arms, so they carry a flow diagram that reconciles from the number screened down to the number analysed: the midwifery continuity audit, the knee rehabilitation trial and the feline weight clinic. Four are audits of routine practice, where the interest is in what was found in the records rather than in an intervention: pharmacy medication reviews, dentistry fluoride varnish, nutrition in school lunches and agriculture variety trials. The rest are measurement studies, where the method is the argument: surface swabs, frog call surveys, variant frequencies and reaction times. Read the design first and the discipline second, because a board from the wrong design will mislead you about what to put where.

Figures, and the things the layout decides for you

Each design fixes the kind of chart its figure block draws, so the studies here were written around the chart that renders rather than the one the author might have preferred. Two boards plot a difference rather than an absolute, because a value axis starts at zero and a series in a narrow band far from zero draws as a flat line: the sports science board plots seconds faster than the slowest sleep band, and the veterinary board plots kilograms lost rather than weight. Both name the real numbers in the caption and in the results. Captions on every board list the categories in order, which is worth copying whatever tool you use.

Printing, and what to take from these

There are two board sizes, A0 portrait and A0 landscape, and a design is authored for one of them. The export is roughly a hundred dots per inch at full size, in RGB, with no bleed, no crop marks and no CMYK conversion, so treat these as conference boards and confirm the file with your print shop. Six of the twelve are Australian and name Australian settings and bodies. Every study, institution, patient and author on these pages is invented, so take the structure, the section order and the level of detail, and replace the content with your own.

Every page in this collection

• Agriculture research poster example

  A variety trial poster is read table first, because a grower wants the ranking and the agronomist wants the spread. This A0 landscape board puts an eight row results table across the middle, with yield, protein and lodging for each variety, and keeps the method and the caveats on either side of it.

• Dentistry research poster example

  A school varnish programme is usually reported by how many children were seen, which goes up whether or not anyone ends up with fewer holes. This board reports what changed instead: new decayed surfaces per child at 24 months in six programme schools against six matched comparison schools, counted by examiners who did not know which was which.

• Ecology research poster example

  An ecology poster is usually read for two things: what was found where, and whether the sampling was good enough to believe it. This board answers both for an acoustic survey of six frog species at 30 wetlands across two wet seasons, with the species counts written as one ordered results block, the grazing comparison in a figure and the seasonal means in a comparison bar block.

• Genetics research poster example

  A genetics poster that reports one variant has to answer two questions before anything else: how many samples, and from where. This board puts both in the title band, then gives the whole width to a hero figure showing the variant frequency rising from 0.08 to 0.21 across five regional cohorts of 1,280 samples each.

• Microbiology research poster example

  A microbiology research poster example should show the sampling plan, how the plates were read and a ranking a reader can trust, because raw colony counts rarely travel between laboratories. This A0 portrait board reports a fictional study of 720 swabs from eight surface types in three hospital wards, with one ranked bar chart of median load, a four bar comparison panel, a single 6x stat block and four cleaning actions.

• Midwifery research poster example

  A midwifery audit poster has to show four outcomes at once without turning into a table nobody reads. This board plots induction, epidural, breastfeeding and caesarean side by side for two models of care across 1,860 matched Australian births, then prints the counts behind every percentage in the results block.

• Neuroscience research poster example

  A crossover poster lives or dies on whether the reader can see that the same people did both conditions. This board says so in the methods block, gives the centre of the canvas to reaction time across eight blocks of 50 trials, and puts the 31 millisecond difference and its interval where the eye lands next.

• Nutrition research poster example

  A dietetics audit poster is read for two things: what the method could actually measure, and which component of the diet is missing. This A0 landscape board photographs 2,400 school lunches across 20 schools, scores each against a guideline, and reports vegetables as the component that fails everywhere.

• Pharmacy research poster example

  A medication review produces a document, and a document is not a change. This board follows every recommendation a pharmacist made across five aged care homes through to a 90 day chart check, with the four headline numbers running as a strip under the title.

• Physiotherapy research poster example

  A non inferiority trial poster has to make the margin visible, because the whole claim rests on it. This board randomises 180 patients to telehealth or in clinic knee rehabilitation, states the 4 point margin in the methods, and puts the 1.2 point difference and its interval in a stat block next to the two arm means.

• Sports science research poster example

  A sports science board is usually built around one figure, because a coach standing at it wants the gradient before the method. This poster gives the whole top half to sleep against 40 metre sprint time across 416 athlete weeks, then explains underneath what 0.12 seconds is worth on the pitch.

• Veterinary research poster example

  A veterinary research poster example should show how animals entered the study, how many finished, and whether the result describes the programme or only the animals that stayed. This A0 landscape board reports a fictional audit of a nurse led weight clinic across four branch practices: owners of 131 overweight cats offered a place, 96 enrolled, 78 completed six months, and a mean fall from 6.4 to 5.7 kilograms in those 78. Three chart figures carry the threshold result, the withdrawals and the monthly curve, and the text keeps completers apart from the programme throughout.