Workshop: Effective Visual Communication of Science
with Dr Jernej Zupanc
Join us for a hybrid learning training combining self-study and a hands-on workshop – led by Dr Jernej Zupanc.
This interactive training is designed for researchers at all career stages and will empower you to visually communicate your complex research ideas, making them easily understood by any audience.
The live workshop will be held on the day after the Midterm Meeting.
Overview
- Self-study: Video courses or participation in a live webinar, expected duration 3.5–7 hours.
- Live workshop: Thursday, 27th March 2024
- Venue: Schaltwerk, Freiburg
- Audience: Researchers at all career stages, especially PhD students & postdocs.
Highlights
Personalised Learning – Incorporate examples from your own research and engage in hands-on exercises.
Comprehensive Skills – Learn to create effective scientific images, posters, slides, and grant proposals.
Interactive Methodology – Experience a hybrid format combining workshop, self-study modules, and group discussions, ensuring efficient use of time with actionable takeaways.
Details
This comprehensive communication training will enable you to visually communicate your complex research ideas and findings so your messages are effortlessly understood by any target audience (scientists or non-scientists). You will learn a strategic design process that is aligned with how humans easily interpret visual information and can be applied to create effective scientific images, posters, slides and grants. This is an immersive training, structured, easy to follow, memorable, useful, and fun.
Attendees are required to complete mandatory self study – either through video courses or by participating in a live webinar – and submit assigned homework prior to the live workshop. The self-study portion will take approximately 3.5 to 7 hours, depending on individual pace. The submitted homework will be used by the instructor to provide personalised feedback and ensure everyone is fully prepared for the hands-on session.
Scientific images – Fundamental visual communication
- Structuring your messages for scientific and non-scientific audiences
- Visual perception and psychology behind what humans find intuitive
- Design philosophy that helps you make strategic design decisions
- Eye-flow & Layout: effortlessly guide the audience through the design
- Colors: strategic use of color to amplify, not “fancify”
- Typography: for legibility, structure and aesthetics
Slides, posters, grants, papers – Applied visual communication
- Slides that amplify messages and don’t distract when presenting
- Posters: strategy and process for creating posters that attract and explain
- Grants / project proposals: visually enhance a document to help the evaluator
Hybrid – Webinar + self-study module + homework + workshop
- Interactive “edutainment”: Fundamentals, real examples and redesigns, practical advice and memorable, actionable take-home messages. No fluff, no nonsense, efficient use of time & effort.
- Drawing exercise & group work: Participants draw a graphical abstract of their research and give each other informed feedback.
- Discussion on pre-submitted materials: Participants submit their scientific materials, and a selection is prepared for feedback. Each participant receives personalised suggestions from the instructor on how to improve their communication.
Organisational matters
If you have any questions, please contact the Project Management Office:
Dr Carmen Steinborn
spp-radiomics@uniklinik-freiburg.de
+49 761 270-39795
Registration
Deadline: Please register no later than Sunday, 2nd March 2025.
The number of participants is limited. Registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please note: The mandatory self-study section must be completed prior to attending the live workshop, so allow yourself sufficient time to complete it.
Project Management Office
Medical Center – University of Freiburg
Center for Diagnostic and
Therapeutic Radiology
Department of Radiology
Killianstr. 5a
79106 Freiburg im Breisgau
+49 761 270-39791
