Making Academic Literature Accessible Through Comics

The session is built around Captain Knowledge and Graphic Leadership, projects that were undertaken to make academic literature/theory/research more accessible. Captain Knowledge explores the lived experiences of teachers in a UK sixth-form college, and presents the findings in comic format to engage the wider population and those outside of academia. Whereas Graphic Leadership focuses on using comic literature to teach leadership theory to students at varying levels. The talk covers the research that informed both projects and the specific production process, before presenting for the first time the semi-animated version of the Captain Knowledge comic.