Record-breaking year for Images of Research contest

The University of Northampton’s fourth annual Images of Research competition has received a record number of entries.

The Graduate School-organised competition includes an exhibition of images which capture research projects in a visually attractive way, in a form understandable by a general audience. The image is accompanied by a summary text which explains the research and links it with the visual medium.

This year’s competition has seen a record number of submissions, with the work of 33 staff and postgraduate research students.

An exhibition of the entries was launched on Tuesday 31 January at Avenue Campus with a private viewing.

Simone Apel, Researcher Developer for the Graduate School and organiser of the competition, said: “I’m always very excited by this project and each year we have more entries than the last. This year the quality and diversity of images has been fabulous.

“We have some very creative thinkers in our research community, every Faculty is represented in this competition and it reflects such a wide range of research projects as diverse as the images are creative.

“I started Images of Research in 2013, as a development exercise for our postgraduate research students, but many staff undertaking research have shown great interest and now we value the competition as a way for all our researchers to express their research using a quite different approach to the usual conference presentation and poster.

“The images are the perfect medium for engaging non-specialists and capture the essence of even complex research projects in an accessible way.”

The exhibition will be in the Avenue Gallery corridor on the ground floor of Maidwell building until Friday 17 February. It will then move to the ground floor of Rockingham Library, Park Campus, until 13 March, when it relocates to the library at Avenue in April.

You can also view the entries in the Image Catalogue.

After viewing the entries, you can vote for your favourite at the exhibition or online. The three winning entries will be revealed in April.