9September 2026Wednesday10:00–11:00 BST
Professional developmentFreeLive online
Communicating with confidence under pressure
Guest speakerKate CubleyVoice and performance specialist, founder of Tala PerformanceInfographics that travel: Designing visuals to influence policy
Visuals that policy-makers can scan quickly, understand, and reuse.
What we will cover
This webinar discusses how to translate scientific knowledge into infographics that policy-makers can scan quickly, understand, and reuse in briefings and presentations. It covers choosing the right visualisation for the decision, simplifying without distorting, writing data-led captions, and designing for common formats (one-page brief, slide deck, handout). Participants leave with a repeatable workflow for commissioning, drafting, and refining infographics with subject experts under tight time and space constraints.
How the session runs
- 0:00Welcome and why this mattersA quick orientation and the one idea to hold onto for the hour.
- 0:05The right visualisation for the decisionSimplifying without distorting, data-led captions, and designing for briefs, decks and handouts.
- 0:45Live Q&ABring your questions. We answer as many as we can before we close.
Who is leading it
Guest speaker
Dr Stacey McCormack
Scientific graphic designer, Visual Knowledge Design
Dr Stacey McCormack is a scientific graphic designer and communicator whose work focuses on utilising a visual approach to knowledge creation and dissemination. After earning her PhD in Quantitative Antarctic Science in 2015, she founded the international scientific graphic design company Visual Knowledge (www.visualknowledge.design) to assist researchers and organisations in translating their knowledge into visually appealing and understandable formats. Now spanning over 26 countries, Visual Knowledge specialises in a collaborative approach to design and science communication.
Lead facilitator
Prof. Mark Reed
Author, The Research Impact Handbook
A globally cited, transdisciplinary researcher on Clarivate's Highly Cited list and author of four books on research impact, productivity and influencing policy.
10,000+
researchers trained
250+
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