Read about the benefits of attending conferences. get ready for a discussion. write your opinion about advantages and disadvantages of attending a conference. there are countless great reasons to attend a conference! 1. get feedback on an early version of your latest work. you can use your presentation time to talk about preliminary results from your most recent experiment, and the feedback you get from your audience can help you to anticipate reviewers' comments when you try to get it published. alternatively, you could present your well-established work, and then at the end, you could throw out some ideas you have for future experiments and get feedback on these. 2.get to know other people in your field. networking is very important for job hunting, obviously, but having a big network benefits you in other ways too. maybe you will need advice from an expert in another field, or you will want to ask someone to come and give a talk at your institution, and this is easier when you have a network to reach out to. 3. meet your academic heroes. if there's a researcher whose work you admire, it can be both inspiring and educational to meet them and to talk to them directly. if one of your academic heroes is speaking at a conference, this could be the perfect chance for you to meet them. who knows, maybe a little chat could lead to future collaboration! 4.adding to your cv. attending a conference is definitely something that should go on your cv, especially if you have given a talk or poster presentation. it shows potential employers or grant-awarding bodies that you're engaged with your field and are taking an active part in communicating with other academics. if you have done it, flaunt it! 5
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