How to Translate Research into a Comic: Examples from Disaster Scholarship

Have you ever thought about translating your research into a comic? Or ever thought about using comics as a creative method to gather data? Comics present an opportunity to make research more participatory, to gather new and unexpected data, to create more ethical representations of participants and their contexts, and to release your creativity.

Join us for a hybrid workshop with IAS Residential Fellow Dr Gemma Sou, the author of “How to Translate Research into a Comic: Examples from Disaster Scholarship” paper, recently published in the Journal of Disaster Studies (JDS).

Gemma will be joined by Dr Oliver Hooper, Dr Karen Sung & Richard Johnson, whose research and practice also incorporates comics, to discuss the language and conventions of comics, how to decide which findings to communicate, writing the script, choosing and working with an illustrator, participatory scripting, and developing characters.

You will also have an opportunity to create your own comic (or at least part of one!). Ultimately, in this workshop we will explore how to think visually and how to communicate research visually, rather than how to draw.

The workshop is co-hosted by the Journal of Disaster Studies and Loughborough University’s Institute of Advanced Studies.

Arrivals from 2:15 pm for a 2:30 pm start. 

This event is hybrid format, please use the required booking button at the bottom of the page to choose either in-person or online attendance.
(Please note that in-person spaces are limited and booking is required, so we can manage numbers for catering and also the space in the seminar room)

By booking a place at this event, attendees agree to behave in a respectful manner such that everyone feels comfortable contributing as they wish. The IAS reserves the right to eject anyone who does not abide by this policy.

IAS seminars are typically recorded, minus any Q&A sessions at the end, again to encourage contributions. The recordings are then uploaded to our website on a Fellows bio page and/or Programme page, along with our IAS YouTube Channel. If you are not able to attend a seminar live, please do still register as we will email everyone who registered to let them know once the recordings are made available.