Visualizing Science – Make Your Research Visible
Science is often not visible: It remains hidden behind closed doors, complicated technical terms or cryptic tables. In our workshop we want to change that and teach you how to visualize and animate your research. You will acquire the communication tools that enable you to graphically prepare and sketch your research topics. The aim is to learn how to prepare scientific results and abstract research topics for a non-specialist audience.
The two-day seminar with practical exercises covers basic design principles and methods and focuses on applying them on the clear and engaging visualization of data and scientific information. Specific visualization techniques and tools are practiced to visualize the participants’ own research projects.
Contents
- The nomenclature of styles for scientific figures
- Basic design principles for visualizations
- Paper, presentation, poster: Different aims and design language
- Defining the essential aspects: Finding your own core message
- Achieving more: Planning and designing infographics
Please note: The course includes homework on the first day – please block approx. 1 hour for this after the workshop in your schedule.
HRA’s Project for Research Communication: This workshop is part of a larger research communication project which is funded by the Claussen-Simon-Stiftung. It can be credited to the topics & formats module of the certificate in research communication.
Details
Date:
Wed, 7 June 2023, 09:00 AM - 12:30 PM, online
Thu, 8 June 2023, 09:00 AM - 12:30 PM, online
Requirements for participation:
- Attendance: Participation is only possible, if you can guarantee an uninterrupted attendance.
- Attention: Online events require the same undivided attention as face-to-face events. Please refrain from parallel activities.
- Interaction: In general HRA events are interactive and require your active participation.
- Visibility: Please turn on your camera, if possible. Especially in our workshops, this is essential for a productive working environment.
Target groups:
doctoral researchers, postdocs, junior research group leaders, w1 professors
Language:
English
Organizer:
Hamburg Research Academy
Trainer:
Julia Pawlowski is a communication designer specialized in visual science communication and exhibition design. At the Universitätskolleg of University Hamburg she developed visual science communication workshops for doctoral students to help them present their work to specific target groups with visual methods. From 2021 she is part of the Digital University Teaching Lab (DUTy) team of the Hamburger Zentrum für Universitäres Lehren und Lernen. In addition, she works as freelance exhibition designer and as a trainer for visualizing science at NaWik.
Dr. Helena Jambor is a molecular biologist trained in Berlin and Cambridge/UK with a passion for information design. After completing her doctorate at EMBL in Heidelberg, she worked with genome data at the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics in Dresden. As a scholarship holder at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, she researched biomedical data visualization and today, as a scientist at the University Hospital Dresden, combines her expertise in the analysis of large amounts of data with her interest in data visualization. She is a lecturer in data visualization and has been a lecturer in bioinformatics at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences since 2019. She tweets and blogs about data visualization at @helenajambor.
Maximum number of participants:
10