As I am still an early PhD student (dealing now with the literature review of the thesis), I have some basic questions.
When submitting a paper to a conference, the same material should not be sent to another event unless it is not accepted on the first event it was sent to. However, I wonder if the same rule applies for doctoral colloquium/workshops/consortia. Otherwise, can we apply and present the same material in many doctoral workshops and events as long as the aim is to get as many feedbacks as possible to steer further research.
Thank you so much for your advice.
I liken a colloquium to a casual lecture, where attendees are allowed to interrupt, and even add information. The process is non-linear and unpredictable, and difficult to document. There is no pre-screening or peer adjusting the material beforehand. Attendees get whatever you bring.
There is a difference between giving a lecture and presenting a paper at a conference. In the first case you are not publishing: there is no record (unless a student videos you). In the second case, you are presenting new research, which is refereed an which does go into the public record.
As a lecturer, you are free to be invited as a guest lecturer to other institutions, to update their students on the state of the art. At different geographical location, or in the following year, you will essentially repeat the basic material, merely updating it and adjusting it for the different audiences and adding material to refute common fallacies that you encounter. No-one present will claim that it was "published". It was only publicised.
In summary, seize all opportunities to present your emerging research and get as much feedback as possible. It will only enrich your research.
Multiple publications on the same topic with the same or very similar content are strongly discourages by the research community and are classified as "self-plagiarism".
However, you may like to present the same piece of research at different seminars/colloquia/conferences as many times as you like for as long as you do not have multiple publications of the same material.
However, the warning message is: it might well happen you'll meet the same people in your auditorium again and they will not be very happy to listen to the same (nearly the same) presentation again. This is likely to happen if you present on a very narrow topic and the group of experts is of a rather limited size, or your conferences are not widely spread geographically so that the same groups of researchers may attend them.
Both gentlemen are correct & offer good advice... I just do it slightly differently. Bottom line you can only submit your dissertation or research paper to one Journal at a time. But whenever I present I am using that information to "TEST" my results... I remember in Dublin literally asking the audience at KEY Note address if my US Base Research was relevant in their countries & if not.... how would they approach the same concept.... so I use all presentations as a way for me to learn more and double check my findings etc..... I would present as much and as often as you can..... Every audience is different even if a few of the same people are in the audience - different day perhaps a slightly different lens.... Good Luck!
Presentations and publications are considered differently, in part because they have different processes of evaluation and often different audiences. If your goal is to get as much feedback as possible and you think your audiences are different (as in the example of the US and Ireland above), then I don't think there is a problem. Hopefully, your research has progressed from one colloquium to another so your presentation is not exactly the same, but if you feel the audiences are not overlapping, you should consider multiple presentations. The only caveat is if you have published the material before; then you shouldn't present it.
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