Making Research Visible – Visual Thinking for Science Communication

Do you want to communicate your research clearly and sharpen your messages? Learn how to convey complex content using simple drawings – for other researchers, stakeholders, and the public.

Visualizations make research tangible and break down barriers. They facilitate collaboration across disciplines, reduce misunderstandings, and create transparency. They also help you structure your own thoughts and recognize connections.

What to expect

• Visual Thinking: You pick up the pen yourself and develop your visual vocabulary.
• Visual Storytelling: What messages are hidden in your research results? Learn about narrative structure and storytelling methods.
• Storytelling with diagrams: Concept development for concise graphics

You need no drawing skills – this is about communication, not art.

Your benefits

You communicate faster and more clearly, sharpen your core messages, and achieve greater impact with your research. Between sessions, you work on the visualization of your own research topic.

Requirements

For this workshop, a basic knowledge about research communication (e.g. from one of our basic courses) is helpful.

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.