News

Jun 2026: Sarah Dunn won a Best Paper Award at DIS 2026 for The Trials of Designing Communication Aids for Clinical Trials
Jun 2026: Dushani Perera presented the DIS 2026 paper Supporting Engagement and Collaborative Exploration with Household Consumption Practices through a Data Sculpture
Jun 2026: Jenny Long presented the DRS 2026 paper Build & Connect: Designing a Constructive, Participatory Physicalization Activity & Toolkit for Community Reflection
Jun 2026: Dorsey Kaufmann and Andrea Kocsis presented the DRS 2026 paper Designing Digital Ghosts: Creative Access to Web Archives
Jun 2026: Jenny Long, Jinrui Wang, Tomas Vancisin, Dorsey Kaufmann, and Uta Hinrichs presented their work at the Design Informatics FAB26 Showcase

Jun 2026: We are hosting a new Edinburgh Visualisation Meetup on Visualizing Climate Change!
May 2026: Andres Ramirez-Duque, Dushani Perera, Dorsey Kaufmann, Uta Hinrichs and Grasping Data team had their CHI 2026 paper accepted, From Squishing to Meaning: Exploring Data Physicalization Through Children’s Embodied Experiences
Mar 2026: Tomas Vancisin published Visualising Historical University Records to Explore the Colonial Connections of the Students and Alumni of the University of St Andrews, 1700–1897
Nov 2026: Dorsey Kaufmann launched Feeling Data Studio
Nov 2026: Dorsey Kaufmann’s exhibition Digital Ghosts opens at Inspace Gallery and runs from 5 Nov to 12 Nov!
Jan 2026: Christina Stoiber is visiting our lab for six weeks. Welcome!
July 2025: Jenny Long exhibiting her Build and Connect Puzzle Physicalization at the Glasgow Women’s Library.
Jul 2025: Sarah Schöttler passed her PhD Viva and is joining the Visualization Cluster at TU Eindhoven as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations!
Jun 2025: Dorsey Kaufmann exhibits her installation Ripple Effect at Hidden Door Festival
May 2025: Dushani Perera, Dorsey Kaufmann, Uta Hinrichs and team had their workshop accepted in Eurovis 2025, titled “Grasping Data Through Play: Exploring Co-Design Activities for Children’s Engagement with Personal Data”.
May 2025: Sarah Dunn won first place in the ACM CHI 2025 Student Research Competition for What Brings You Here Today?: Challenges for Clinicians Communicating Data to Patients
May 2025: Hiring a data visualization designer/developer for joining the World Bank’s B-ready team in 2025 Summer Internship.
Sept 2024: Welcoming Dorsey Kaufmann in our group!
Aug 2024: 4 full papers and 1 VISAPP paper accepted to IEEE VIS.
Jan 2023: We are hosting the international Information+ conference on information design and data visualization in Edinburgh in November 2023.
Sept 2022: Lara Johnson and Rea Michalopoulou joining us as PhD students.
Aug 2022: 3 Full papers accepted for IEEE VIS 2022, two of which have won honorable mentions!!
Jan 2022: Vistorian Updated Version launched: The Vistorian network visualization platform comes with an new wizard making data upload easier. Visit the Vistorian and our training resources on http://vistorian.net.
Jan 2022: 2 full papers accepted for ACM CHI 2022!!
Oct 2021: 4 IEEE VIS papers: VisHub involved in 4 full papers and 2 workshops at IEEE VIS 2021: Workshop on VisActivities and Workshop on Visualization for Digital Humanities VIS4DH. Check the VIS papers here.
Oct 2021: Corona Moments Launched: We just launched a visualization as a retrospective on the pandemic. Please, help our research by exploring the interface and participating in the research: corona memories (In collaboration with the Urban Complexity Lab)
Sept 2021: Uta Hinrichs joining as Reader: Uta Hinrichs joins the VisHub as a Reader. Welcome Uta!!!
Oct 2020: PhD Scholarship in Visualising Complex Care Pathways in Later Life.
Oct 2020: Three full papers accepted at IEEE VIS 2020!
Oct 2020: Co-organizing IEEE VIS Workshop on Guidelines in Visualization: VisGuides.
Oct 2020: Co-organizing IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization Education: VisActitivies.
Jun 2020: Two papers accepted at AVI 2020!
Jun 2020: Devanjan Bhattacharya joins as a post-doc, working on map applications for peace analysis.
May 2020: James Scott-Brown (postdoc) and Arran Ridley (research assistant) join the team!
Feb 2020: Position open for University Teacher in Data Visualization (postdoc level, no PhD).
Dec 2019: Visual+Interactive Data contributes towards four papers for CHI 2020! Congrats everyone!