As part of her PhD research, Gill Brown conducted two pilot workshops for members of the Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences at King’s College London. in 2017. These workshops covered good graphic design practice for scientific figures and the creation of figures using Adobe Illustrator software.
Feedback from the 2017 workshops was used to extensively revise and update the training material for use in further graphic design workshops, held at the beginning of 2020, for research scientists in King’s Health Faculties. Due to demand, the workshops were repeated throughout 2020 and 2021, initially held in-person but subsequently held online due to COVID restrictions. The training material is also available to King’s students for self-study via a KEATS webpage.
An introductory video to the workshops, in the form of a conversation between Dr Mattia Veronese and Dr Gill Brown, is available to anyone outside of King’s and can be viewed here. This video explains the ethos behind the workshops, the topics that are covered and what participants can expect to learn.
The workshops for King’s Health Faculties continued through the 2022/23 academic year and all of the training material (both online via KEATS and for the workshops) was revised and updated in late 2022 / early 2023.
Through summer 2023, Gill worked with the HSDTC at KCL, in conjunction with another trainer, to revise the visual communication training provided to the Health Faculties during the 2023/24 academic year. Gill’s two original workshops were integrated into a visual communication training pathway and Gill also delivered a new practical workshop, focused on creating research posters in MS PowerPoint. This revised visual communication training pathway also ran in the 2024/25 academic year and are running again in the 2025/26 academic year.
For more details about the workshops for members of the KCL Heath Faculties, follow the links below:
Graphic design workshops held online and in-person for research students in the Health Faculties at King’s during the 2024/25 and 2025/26 academic years.
Graphic design workshops held online and in-person for research students in the Health Faculties at King’s during the 2023/24 academic year.
Graphic design workshops held online and in-person for research students in the Health Faculties at King’s during 2022 and spring 2023.
Graphic design workshops held in-person and online for research students in the Health Faculties at King’s during 2020 and 2021.
Pilot graphic design workshops held for members of the Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, as part of Gill Brown’s PhD research in 2017.
Neuroscience & graphic design 