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Education and Research

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Education and Research This session will be DELIVERED VIRTUALLY - joining instructions will be provided beforehand.

This activity is for Research active staff and would be particularly useful to Early Career Researchers.

About this course:

We carry cameras with us everywhere, and nearly 5 billion photos are taken daily.

But how many of those photos are well constructed and tell a great story? Visual literacy is a skill that helps us to not only interpret imagery in our everyday environment, but to help us build our own images and effectively communicate ideas and narratives to others.

This session will introduce you to the basics of how images are structured, drawing on historical artworks and contemporary advertising, and then offer practical guidance on strengthening the communication impact of your own images.

Learning outcomes:

As a result of attending this course, you will be able to:.

- share what visual literacy is - basic principles of how images can be made and understood/received.

- to increase visual literacy in life generally.

- to highlight how better visual literacy (ie aesthetics and semiotics) improves research and research communications.

- to increase visual literacy to support better research and better research communications.

Who should attend this course:

This activity is for Research active staff and would be particularly useful to Early Career Researchers or indeed anyone interested in using visuals/imagery to communicate ideas.

Anyone entering the Images of Research competition.

If you have accessibility requirements, please contact researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk in advance to discuss further.

Presenter(s):

Sarah Campbell (www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/about), Associate Director for Arts and Culture, University of Exeter and Clare Hearn, Senior Lecturer, Exeter Business School (www.linkedin.com/in/clare-hearn-bb95a931/?originalSubdomain=uk)

Before the course:

To get the most out of the session, we would ask participants to have the following on the day:.

- A cardboard viewer - can be made from any cardboard available (old cereal packet etc), cut down to roughly postcard (A6) size, then cut a 4cm x 4cm square in the middle.

- One favourite photo you have taken, can be of anything.

- 2 - 3 images (of paintings, photographs) sourced online that feel of relevance/interest to something you are working on at the moment.

Keep in a folder with your favourite photo, to be used in the workshop.

A joining link will be provided beforehand.

Learning provider:

This course is administered by Researcher Development; please contact researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk for more details.

If you register for any of our sessions, it is expected that you will attend.

If you are not able to attend please log in to the `iTrent' online system to remove your name from the relevant activity before it is due to take place.

You will be expected you to attend for the whole session and for ease of administration, attendance registers will be taken at the end of each session.

Should you need to leave a session early or you experience ongoing technical issues, please email ResearcherDevelopment@exeter.ac.uk.

Book your place or add your name to the waiting list