Visual communication of science

You will learn to visually communicate your complex research ideas and results so your messages are effortlessly understood by any specific audience (scientists or non-scientists). We will not focus on aesthetics but on how knowledge on human visual perception can help you create effective scientific images, slides, and posters.

You will design a graphical abstract of your research, discuss it with peer scientists in a group exercise, and get actionable advice and personalized feedback on your own images and slides. It is an immersive training, comprehensive, structured, memorable, easy to follow, useful and fun.

Learning goals:

After completing the workshop you will be able to:

• Strategically plan your science communication with scientific and non-scientific audiences
• Understand what humans find visually intuitive and how you can use that to make any kind of your visual communication (images, slides, posters, grants, documents) easier to understand.
• Meaningfully and effectively use color, typography, layout, eye-flow to improve comprehension of your design
• Design your scientific images so they are easier to understand (graphical abstracts, conceptual diagrams, schemes, data visualization etc.)
• Design slide presentations that don’t distract and amplify your messages when presenting
• Design conference posters that attract the right audience and get you into meaningful conversations

Workload:

• 5 hours of pre-study
• 4.5 hours of online live workshop (9:00-13:30, see the dates below)
• Optionally: additional online courses on the Seyens online learning platform.

Other:

This is a comprehensive training that requires focus and effort but past students agree that it can have a significant effect on the quality of your communication in academia and beyond.

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