PHD Cartoons - Ashleigh Neill - Cartoonist

PhDcartoon transforms research concepts and projects into concrete designs and illustrations. She has been drawing and sketching ever since she was able to hold a pencil. Still amazed at the power of art to communicate ideas into something tangible for people to engage with.

How it started

Throughout Ashleighs PhD in Finance at Queen's University Belfast, she used artistic skills to depict key concepts of research which crossed between Law, Finance and Econometrics.

Her illustrations won prizes at academic presentations and gained the attention of other researchers both locally and globally. She started collaborating with researchers to help them express their work in a creative and accessible way - PhDcartoon was born.

Hows it going.

PhDcartoon's approach to converting complex information into a visual representation has caught the eye of other businesses in Belfast. PhDcartoon has helped businesses with rebranding and designing new logos.

Whiteboard animations are a lot of fun to make and really make a project come to life. PhDcartoon hopes to venture into other forms of animation and data visualisation presentations.