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Visualise Your Research Workshop
Effective visual communication for scientists and researchers
Visuals are powerful tools for making complex scientific and research ideas accessible, engaging, and clear. Whether sharing results with experts or non-specialists, effective visual communication can help researchers amplify messages and leave a lasting impression.
Our Visual Communication Workshop goes beyond “pretty pictures.” Using proven design principles and our 5-step Visual Design Framework, participants will learn how to create visuals that are concise, compelling, and effective.
By the end of this one-day workshop, participants will have a toolbox of practical, transferable skills to enhance their visual communication across many formats, including posters, presentations, papers, and more.
Workshop highlights
- Design That Works: Understand key visual design principles and how to apply them to science and research visuals.
- Critique & Improve: Evaluate real examples of slides, posters, and figures to identify what works (and what doesn’t).
- Practical Application: Refine an existing visual using new skills.
- Tailored Feedback: Receive constructive feedback on participants’ own visuals from peers and the instructor.
- Putting Visuals to Work: Create a graphical abstract to apply visual communication techniques and group input.
- Interactive & Hands-On: Engage in discussions, exercises, and practice sessions to build confidence and skills.
Audience
This workshop is perfect for scientists, researchers, and science communicators at all career levels who want to elevate their visual communication and have more impact with their work.
It may also be useful for research teams who support scientists and researchers in creating material.
Customisable formats
This workshop can be delivered in person over the course of a full day, or as two half-day online sessions.
Running short on time? We can offer condensed versions of this workshop as well as interactive webinars, short talks and keynotes for large groups.
Let’s equip researchers and groups with skills to help improve their visual communication!
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We typically schedule workshops and training 6-12 months in advance, so if you have specific dates in mind for a future event or for training planning purposes, we recommend getting in touch as early as possible. Need something at short notice? Not to worry - we often have a few days available each month for unplanned sessions.
Kind words
Thank you Suzanne for this excellent workshop. I have never thought deeply about my visual communication but I am now very aware of how important this is, and I have lots of tips and tools that I can use to make my visual presentation better. I think that this workshop should be standard for scientists. Can only recommend.
I wasn't expecting to learn how to give feedback on this course, but I did. I also received feedback on my poster and visual abstract. The feedback sessions allowed me to learn so much before we got to the theory, and the theory just deepened my learning. I have some clear ideas about how to improve my existing material, and I also learned how to improve from the comments made by the group on other people's material.
It was great to be able to attend an on-site course for this. Loved all the pens and paper, and the invitations to start with a sketch. Good structure, interesting discussions, and having time to create a graphical abstract and get feedback was brilliant.
Suzanne started this workshop by saying that most of what she would offer us would feel like common sense. She was right. It's so obvious that I've never thought about it! The day was full of useful information, and I liked the way that Suzanne tailored the session with content from us. I found the structure very helpful in building knowledge. My diagrams and infographics will never be the same. Thank you!
This course was offered by my graduate school and I attended because I always struggle with my visualisations. I now have a better understanding of where I am going wrong and what I can do better (and that I am also doing something right). I like the clear process that I can use now, and the activities in the session were perfect for applying knowledge.
I like how this course was about visual communication and how we can apply what we learn in different ways. Some people in the class were interested in posters, others in slides, others in how to create better graphs. We learned a lot from each other as well as from the lecturer. Good exercises.
This was a very useful training for my needs. The trainer gave us a good overview, and lots of examples that were relevant to our group. I liked that they also offered examples from other disciplines, too: top tip is that visual communication is EVERYWHERE and we can borrow ideas from others to improve continually.
Lots of practical tips and tools. Helpful theory - not too much. Liked the exercises and discussions: feel as if I learned through talking and doing during the two online sessions. Recommend.
Suzanne is a great trainer, and obviously passionate about her subject. I liked that she has a practical background in visual communication from her time as a creative director, and how she has blended this with the work that she does with clients. She made the class very relevant with examples from our research area, and linked theory with practical exercises. I am only just getting started with using visuals and I am certain that this class will help me as I progress through my academic career.
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