Category Archives: Publication

New publication

Posted on August 19, 2018 by Alison Black

CIDR authors, Sue Walker and Alison Black, and colleagues from the School of Arts at University of Hasselt, Belgium, and information design consultancy Text Matters have co-authored a chapter in a new publication Learning to Read in a Digital World, … Continue reading →

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New publication on data presentation

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Alison Black

September’s edition of the Royal Meteorological Society journal, Weather, features a paper (lead author, Matthew Lickiss) on the development of our quick guide to presenting data and uncertainty. The guide was developed during the large, NERC-funded project RACER, in which … Continue reading →

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Information design research in context

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Alison Black

It’s not unusual to be asked how information design differs from the wider field of graphic design; and what is research in information design. In her newly published short paper, Research in Graphic Design, in The Design Journal, Sue Walker … Continue reading →

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New book on design for health

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Alison Black

Congratulations to the editors of the newly published book Design for Health, Emmanuel Tsekleves and Rachel Cooper of Lancaster University’s design-led research centre ImaginationLancaster. The book forms part of Routledge’s series Design for Social Responsibility (edited by Rachel Cooper). It … Continue reading →

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New book . . .

Posted on January 9, 2017 by suewalker

CIDR is delighted to announce the publication of Information design research and practice, a Gower book published by Routledge. The editors, Alison Black, Paul Luna, Ole Lund and Sue Walker have had the pleasure of working with leading academics and … Continue reading →

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‘…communication is also hard, actually…’

Posted on September 16, 2016 by Alison Black

‘The science is hard, the communication is also hard, actually; the policy making is also extremely hard.’ This is how Sir Mark Wallport, summed up the challenge of communicating and decision-making, given the complexity of the science behind weather and … Continue reading →

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Weather forecasts and how people understand uncertainty

Posted on May 26, 2015 by

The results of the study on weather forecasts undertaken by undergraduate researchers, Matthew Standage, Rachel Bartlett and Shymali Abraham have been published in the latest issue of Meteorological Applications. The research explores how members of the public understand and interpret weather forecasts (rain probability and … Continue reading →

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