Infographics Toolkit

Why infographics?

Infographics, or information graphics, are graphic visualizations that combine data, illustrations, text, and images to tell a story.

Infographics are commonly used to share health and medical information, news stories, or to disseminate scholarly research. While infographics may differ in terms of content, their goals remains the same – to present information in a way that is easy to understand, engaging, and aesthetically-pleasing. Scholars can use infographics to share their work with other academics, as well as with broader audiences outside their field of study. As a pedagogical tool, infographics can assist students in understanding the importance of accessible research dissemination, alternative genres of output, effective communication, knowledge mobilization, and community engagement.

This toolkit builds on the advice and resources shared by participants in our roundtable on infographic creation and accessible research dissemination. This toolkit will provide additional information on accessible research dissemination and infographics as pedagogy and will offer recommendations on creating infographics.