Make the world give a s**t: How to communicate your research visually for maximum impact
Thursday 19 May | 10:00-15:00 (with a break for lunch)
In person, Armstrong Building Room G.08
Please register here: Make the world give a s**t (ncl.ac.uk)
This event is open to all staff within the HaSS Faculty, with a limited number of places available to research students
Permanent link to event description: https://newcastle.sharepoint.com/hub/hss/Pages/KE-and-Impact-Opportunities.aspx
In this half day interactive session led by, you’ll learn how to break your research down into engaging, actionable stories suitable for different audiences, and turn those stories into compelling visuals like infographics, presentations, storyboards, and animations.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Distil research into key messages and takeaways
- Become proficient storytellers by identifying the right narrative structure to present these takeaways and appeal to either a public, academic or policy audience
- Turn that narrative into a visual representation using the Nifty Visual Matrix
- Create their own professional looking visual stories as infographics, presentations and animations using free, online tools
- Access our Nifty database of free visual resources to continue their visual storytelling learning
The workshop will be highly interactive, with participants encouraged and supported to embrace their creative side and have fun, all whilst making the world give a s**t about the ground-breaking research they are doing.
This session is run by Laura Evans-Hill, award winning visual storyteller and research translator, and director of Nifty Fox Creative. An ex-social researcher, Laura has helped academics and public sector leaders across the globe to tell their stories visually so audiences listen. Over the last five years, Nifty Fox has worked with clients from the UK Government and over 60 international parliaments, right through to over 50 universities internationally and the NHS, Ministry of Justice and Department of Health. We won an advanced healthcare award for our work with Public Health England and visual storytelling to help the digitally excluded cope during the pandemic.