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Images of Research Competition 2020 Celebratory Brochure Flair, ambition and enthusiasm Research and Knowledge Exchange
Images of Research
A research communication competition brought to you
by the Research and Knowledge Exchange Directorate.
Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers were
challenged to submit a photograph and accompanying
abstract which communicates the impact of their
research to a non-specialist audience with flair,
ambition and enthusiasm.
The competition supports development of A prize was also available for the entry which
research communication skills and showcases received the most votes from visitors to the
the diversity and importance of topics covered exhibition and online gallery. A total of 673
by the University’s emerging researchers. votes were received across the three weeks the
exhibition was open. This year the prize was
In this, the competition’s second year, we won by Postgraduate Researcher Jamila Makarfi
received over thirty entries from across all from the Faculty of Business and Law, whose
Faculties. The top ten submissions, five submission received over 17% of the votes.
each from Postgraduate and Early Career
Researchers, were professionally printed and Thank you to all those who visited the
exhibited on the ground floor of the University’s exhibition either in person or online and voted
Benzie Building throughout March. for their favourite entry.
Three prizes worth £100 each were available This brochure contains all the eligible entries
to the shortlisted entries. A panel of experts, submitted to Images of Research 2020.
including Professor Richard Greene, Pro- Although the planned award ceremony was
Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge cancelled due to the Covid-19 restrictions, we
Exchange, selected two Judges’ Choice hope this brochure will serve to celebrate the
Awards. The winners of the Postgraduate winners and the great diversity of research at
and Early Career Researcher categories were Manchester Met.
Rebecca Clarke and Becky Alexis-Martin
respectively. Both are from the Faculty of If you have any questions relating to past
Science and Engineering. or future competitions please contact the
organisers at:
imagesofresearch@mmu.ac.uk
Judges’ Choice Award
Winner
Postgraduate Researcher Category
Rebecca Clarke
Postgraduate Researcher
Faculty of Science and Engineering
The Long Trail Ahead in Stroke Recovery
Stroke is a debilitating condition, it affects how This pioneering research project seeks to
we walk, how we move, how we think and develop a new form of stroke rehabilitation,
speak. Despite stroke primarily affecting the using the positive impact natural outdoor
older population, 26% of adults in the United environments have on health and wellbeing.
Kingdom are under the age of 65. For my PhD project which is match-funded
by the Brecon Beacons National Park Wales
Most young adults who have had a stroke are (and the setting for the photograph), I have
unable to complete activities of daily living, organised an outdoor-walking rehabilitation
return to work, participate in social activities programme for young adults who have had
or outdoor activity, leading to increased time a stroke. My PhD will determine if this
indoors, lack of independence, social isolation, programme can improve walking performance
and depression. and mental wellbeing.
Judges’ Choice Award Winner Early Career Researcher Category Becky Alexis-Martin Early Career Researcher Faculty of Science and Engineering Laughing in the Face of Death I took this photo on Kiritimati during my participation in Operation Grapple, Britain’s Pacific fieldwork for Atomic Atolls. This project largest H-bomb tests in 1958. Both local people explores the cultural consequences of the and soldiers have experienced long-term health nuclear-climate change nexus, through the impacts from these tests. Here a group of entangled lives of British nuclear test veterans, Kiritimati Island elders threw their heads back and the places and communities where they and laughed, when a veteran showed them his worked during the Cold War. Grapple album. On this occasion, I had accompanied a group While British nuclear weapons are no longer of octogenarian nuclear test veterans, as they tested here, this low-lying small island state travelled halfway across the world from the must now contend with the consequences of UK to ‘Christmas Island’. Their aim was to climate change. commemorate the 60th anniversary of their
People’s Choice Award
Winner
Jamila Makarfi
Postgraduate Researcher
Faculty of Business and Law
Corporate Security Responsibility
Over the last decade, North-east Nigeria has This image was taken on 17 March 2017 after a
been under severe insurgency attacks from camp housing over 6000 people was razed by
the ‘Boko Haram’ terrorists. The conflict fire. This happened less than 100 miles from
has left over 2.3 million people displaced where 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped 3 years
and thousands killed. The severe conditions earlier in Chibok.
necessitated the government and several
international organisations to provide My PhD research seeks to understand
assistance to those affected. The lucky ones the positive roles that businesses play in
are placed in camps, where they rely on contributing to conflict prevention and peace
handouts from philanthropists, businesses and promotion within the conflict region, hence the
organisations involved in victim support. title. Can the development achieved through
the corporate social responsibility of businesses
help to sustain peace in the region?
Shortlisted Entries
Charlotte Arculus
Postgraduate Researcher
Faculty of Education
Illuminating Arts Practices in Early Childhood with More-Than-Human
Technologies
The image is from an immersive environment My immersive environments offer multiple,
for two-year-olds. This was part of my varied and open-ended ways to engage. Many
doctoral project, More Than Words, which things are happening simultaneously yet
aims to reconceptualise understandings of related through the affects, textures, sonics,
young children’s communication through bodies and movements of the space.
improvisational arts practices. Using music and
dance with materials such as silk, string, and I used a 360˚ video camera to create audio/
light, children, parents, artists and educators visual data. This more-than-human technology
adopted a practice of stripping back talk in observes in ways radically different to ‘framed’
order to tune into the multiplicitous encounters video. It makes tangible young children’s
and communications that are going on between entangled knowledge through relation and
children and the world. movement in ways that are not perceptible to
the adult gaze or traditional video technology.
Carlos Bedson
Postgraduate Researcher
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Britain’s Unspoken Wildlife Tragedy
Between Manchester and Sheffield reside small Meanwhile people consider roadkill an
declining populations of mountain hares and unfortunate and acceptable consequence of
brown hares. Society reveres these animals travel. Drivers causing accidents and death
for their value to ecosystems, their beauty and are, of course, forgiven. Government highways
cultural heritage. Yet annually more than 200 departments have limited definitions of what
hares are killed by motorists upon the local constitutes “acceptable” levels of roadkill.
road networks. On a two mile stretch of the Mitigation strategies are quietly avoided.
A57 Snake Pass alone, more than 100 mountain
hares die. Embarrassed, society tries not to notice the
animal conservation and welfare dilemma.
My research statistically models these hare People look away from the horror. Will you?
populations. Findings show the roads kill
more than 10% of the mountain and brown
hares every year. The persistence of these
populations is threatened.
Su Corcoran
Early Career Researcher
Faculty of Education
Exploring Displaced Young People’s Belonging and Learning
Experiences Through Art
Young artists, displaced by conflict in countries of the GCRF/AHRC-funded Belonging and
neighbouring Uganda and living as refugees Learning network project. The project aimed
in Kampala, take part in a workshop that to explore the role of arts-based methods in
explored their experiences of education and encouraging communication between young
provided opportunities to learn new techniques people and education-based policy makers.
for use within their own art. The artists were Street-connected young people or refugees
experimenting with watercolours and charcoal were invited to the workshops to create art
to visualise their dreams for the future. with, or as part of messages to communicate
to, local officials in these countries.
The image was taken at the second of three
workshops conducted in Kenya (dance),
Uganda (visual art) and the Democratic
Republic of Congo (poetry and drama) as part
Emily Crompton
Early Career Researcher
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Documenting Demolition: A Community Evidencing Project at
Manchester’s LGBT+ Centre
Manchester’s LGBT+ Centre is the only centre. When the new building opens in 2021,
dedicated and purpose-built centre for the it will more than double the activity space and
LGBT Community in the UK. It was built in ensure that the centre is fit for the next 30+
1988 after fierce campaigning by activists years working with and campaigning for the
and volunteers and has served the LGBT+ LGBT+ community.
Community for the last 32 years.
The main aim of the Documenting Demolition
Six years ago, I researched the history of the project is to ensure accurate and detailed
centre and completed a feasibility study on recording of the demolition and construction
options for the building for The Proud Trust. process to validate the necessity of community
Through an engaged design process, proposals spaces such as these in our modern cities.
were drawn up to demolish and re-build the
Sarah Fox
Early Career Researcher
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Trust Women
Trust Women, the central argument of designed to support women. And it was
the Repeal campaign during the abortion about asking women to have trust in me as a
referendum in Ireland in 2018, and a concept researcher to represent their experiences.
that was the foundation of my PhD research
during the same time. Feminist movements have shown us that
trusting women can create change for women.
My thesis explored the lived experiences of This was the guiding principle of my PhD
substance use and domestic abuse among journey, and continues to be the theme
women, which is, at its core, about trust. This that guides my career as I explore the lived
research was about having a belief in women’s experiences of substance use among women
stories and fully listening to their words. It who trust me to share their story.
was about losing trust in systems that wereDavid Tomlinson
Early Career Researcher
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Defining Obesity: BMI or Body Fat Percentage?
“What classification method would best image demonstrates how these contrasting
demonstrate the deleterious effects of obesity methods can reclassify a normal weight
on skeletal muscle?” This was the final individual into an obese classification, which
question from my external examiner during my can have significant implications. My research
PhD viva and the answer is pertinent in today’s highlighted this and revealed the answer, as
society, with globally ~ 2.1 billon people being a high body fat percentage in comparison to
categorised obese. BMI was associated with decreased relative
strength, lower maximal muscle activation and
Before answering this question, it is important accelerating muscle loss during ageing. These
to highlight differences in the measurement findings indicate the importance of both fat loss
techniques: one is a relative measure of and muscle gain irrespective of overall mass/
your overall mass (BMI) and the other is a BMI increases.
percentage of your total fat content. TheAlejandra Zamora Postgraduate Researcher Faculty of Science and Engineering Fighting Extinction The black-eye tree frog, Agalychnis moreletii, ranges from central Mexico to Honduras is a stunning species that inhabits forests although our research indicates this species of Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, El Salvador may be cryptic, meaning it could actually be and Honduras. They are endangered due to several highly endangered subspecies. We are habitat destruction, pollution, pet trade, and currently doing the genetics to see if this is diseases. Unfortunately, this species remains indeed the case. This would change the outlook understudied and underappreciated due to the dramatically for this species considering it fact its most closely related cousin, the red was controversially downgraded from Critically eyed tree frog, garners most of the attention Endangered to Least Concern in 2016. and research money. Officially, this species
Entries
Dina Abdelmottaleb Nasser Al-Shanti
Postgraduate Researcher Early Career Researcher
Faculty of Science and Engineering Faculty of Science and Engineering
Fibrotic Blooms: Confocal
Microscopy of Isolated Human
Hepatic Stellate Cells
Liver fibrosis is scarring characterised by In Vitro Model for Human
excess production of collagen. This can lead to Neuromuscular Junction
irreversible cirrhosis in severe cases. Following This photo shows the human Neuromuscular
liver injury, hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) are Junction (NMJ) which is the interface between
activated and produce the collagen rich matrix motor neurons (green colour in image), which
that causes liver fibrosis. relay information from the nervous system,
to muscles (purple colour) which control
In response to liver injury HSCs secrete tissue movements after receiving the nervous signals.
damaging extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins.
The fibrotic ECM increases organ stiffness. The image acquired using confocal microscopy,
Mechano-transduction caused by the stiffened shows advanced differentiation myotubes
fibrotic ECM drives further activation of HSCs. (MHC striation, purple colour) into muscle
The molecular and genetic regulation that tissue. While neural progenitor cells (NPCs)
propels fibrosis is still enigmatic. We propose differentiate into cholinergic motor neurons
that mechano-activation in HSCs is regulated with axons (VaChT is specific mark for
by the enigma protein PDLIM5. To model functional motor neuron, green colour) that
fibrotic liver disease, we isolate primary HSCs branch to form neuromuscular innervation sites
from patients under-going liver resection. (double staining pre- and post-synaptic, VaChT
and alpha-bungarotoxin (α-BTX)-red colour
This image was generated using confocal respectively) along myotubes.
microscopy. It shows immunofluorescence
staining of human HSCs in culture. PDLIM5
(red), Phalloidin cytoskeletal marker (green)
& DAPI staining the nuclear chromatin (blue).
The last is the overlay of the three different
fluorescence channels with a scale bar.Ruth Churchill Dower Jamie Crowther
Postgraduate Researcher Postgraduate Researcher
Faculty of Education Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Try for Change
Sport has long been celebrated as an
undoubtable developer of personal character
attributes such as self-worth and self-discipline.
However, sport is a broad and wide-ranging
The Power of Dance for Children field and it would be inaccurate to argue that
Who Don’t Speak all sports can have the same influence.
When Daniel’s dog died, he showed no This project investigates sport in the context
response to the death of his best friend. Not of the Criminal Justice System in the North
speaking was de rigueur for this four-year-old.
West of England. More specifically, it explores
Until the day our dancer introduced curious
the use of Rugby Union, a sport which has
provocations with unusual materials, movement
historically been underrepresented in this
and music instead of words.
sector, and its influence on young males
Daniel became gradually engrossed in this involved in the Criminal Justice System. More
music, delineating long, graceful lines to the directly, this project explores how the inherent
rhythms. He didn’t appear to see or hear anyone hyper-masculine characteristics of rugby permit
else and, even when the music finished, his young males’ masculine affirmation whilst also
body carried on moving, immersed in, and contributing to positive youth development
responding to, forces beyond our understanding. through the provision of relations and contexts
Spontaneously, he sang a simple song about his that provide opportunities for the development
dog having died and being happy in heaven, of supporting relationships, engagement
whilst his body continued to make graceful with positive leadership, and opportunities to
shapes with the tambourine across the space. consolidate life skills.
None of his educators or parents had witnessed
this depth and intensity of his bodily and verbal
expression before. This, and many similar
examples of silent children’s powerful embodied
communication, form the backdrop to this
research.Kevin Dalton-Johnson Mariane Delaunay
Postgraduate Researcher Postgraduate Researcher
Faculty of Education Faculty of Science and Engineering
Data is in the Box: Barn Owl Rictal
Bristles Development
Rictal bristles are a type of feather found above
Inclusion Improved by Enhancing the upper beak in many nocturnal species
the Resilience of Black Teachers of birds (e.g. barn owls), but we know little
about them. They look, superficially, like
Black professionals and students are often mammalian whiskers. In many species of
forced to comply with a pedagogy of white mammal, whiskers are present at birth and
supremacy in the British education system. play important roles in suckling and huddling
This systematically undervalues Black behaviours, which are crucial for young animals
students or miseducates them, compounded to stay warm and feed. Therefore, perhaps rictal
by the dearth of Black professionals across the bristles could carry out a similar role in the
educational system (DfE, 2018) that is directly development of bird nestlings.
connected to histories of poor schooling and
negative educational experiences: consequently We filmed the development of barn owl
Black underachievement and exclusions nestlings until they fledged, and assessed their
continue to increase (Graham, 2001). reactions when tickled with a cotton bud on
their rictal region. Owl rictal bristles emerged
Concomitantly, racism in the workplace has late in their development. Tickling the rictal
grown to epidemic levels (Marvin and Jennings, region triggered a combination of behaviours,
2009). These injustices are detrimental to the especially associated with feeding-related
mental wellbeing, educational achievement and behaviours. Therefore, rictal bristles are unlikely
professional development of Black professionals to play a role during development in barn owls,
and students. Integration, multiculturalism, but might be useful for foraging as the birds
colour-blindness, diversity are not effective. fledge.
I suggest that we need a political platform to
actively disrupt white supremacism. I posit
the arts, politically-aligned with the Black Arts
Movement (BAM), as one such platform. BAM
like critical race theory (CRT) seeks to expose
social injustices, and emancipate the power of
Blackness.Kathrin Diconne Paul Diggett
Postgraduate Researcher Postgraduate Researcher
Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Manchester Present Past
Anything Can Make You Feel
Something. Or Nothing. As a Manchester historian, I often have to walk
the streets of the districts I am researching
We see. We hear. We speak. We feel, smell, and create in my mind, images of the past on
and taste. But why can some things we are present day Manchester. This image is of Aspin
confronted with, make us feel happy, sad, Lane, Angel Meadow, and merges two images
excited, anxious, surprised, or even angry 125 years apart.
sometimes? Everything around us that we
perceive with one of our senses can be called Angel Meadow was one of the worst slums
a stimulus and has an impact on our conscious in Manchester, where there was no greenery.
and subconscious. However, two people can Today there is plenty of greenery, and home
react differently to the same stimulus. But to Noma in the background. The older image
why? Does personal relevance matter? And is of the children welcoming the Duchess of
is there an influence of these stimuli that Sutherland. Merging the two images together is
goes beyond eliciting a simple emotion in us? what I have to do when researching my subject
Could for example our memory benefit from a in my mind. The image is of Aspin Street today
provoked emotion, or potentially be impaired and is an image of how in 125 years the same
by it? spot has changed. Just like history.
Within my research I am investigating
emotional stimuli along with their individual
personal relevance and how they affect our
prospective memory, the memory we need
when we want to remember to do something in
the future.Dominic Edwards Olivia Greenhalgh
Postgraduate Researcher Postgraduate Researcher
Faculty of Business and Law Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care
Exploring Targeted Compressive
Cryotherapy Using the Swellaway
Knee Unit
This research project is part of a Knowledge
Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Manchester
Metropolitan University, University of Central
Lancashire and Swellaway Ltd, which aims to
develop therapeutic protocols.
The Journey to the Top!
Over the last ten years I have been lucky With no defined protocols published in the
enough to have worked in youth football current guidelines for acute soft tissue injury
as a coach, educational advisor and almost management, there is an apparent lack
everything in between. Throughout these roles of standardisation amongst compressive
I have met many young footballers, each with cryotherapy treatments used in both a clinical
a burning desire to complete their journey to and sports settings.
the top and represent the biggest clubs in the
world as well as their national team. During a With the Swellaway technology offering full
young players’ journey there will be many trials control on cooling, heating and compression
(literally!) and tribulations and my PhD research protocols within safe parameters, it is
focuses on one in particular – the transition possible to program over 80,000 treatment
into the international football environment. combinations. This provides an opportunity
to explore the dose response relationships
When a young footballer enters the international between application time, target temperature,
dressing room they are suddenly greeted with
target level of compression and frequency
different coaches, teammates and pressures that
of application, which are yet to be fully
can impact performance. Negative transitions
understood. This could provide key information
can lead to dropout from sport, decreased
of the optimum recovery environment for
life satisfaction and mental health issues.
different acute soft tissue injuries.
This research will develop policy to support
players during this period and change negative
transitions to positive outcomes.Graeme Heyes Jireh Jam
Early Career Researcher Postgraduate Researcher
Faculty of Science and Engineering Faculty of Science and Engineering
Inpainting Missing Contents of an
Image with Preserved Realism
In this research, our goal is to challenge
existing image editing applications by
Utilising Association Football to introducing a user-friendly app that can restore
Tackle Climate Change or edit an image with cracks or unwanted
Most football clubs have been established for content, to look real and convincing to the
over 100 years, demonstrating that they are human eye.
some of the only businesses that will be around
for long enough to see the impacts of climate In the past, an artist would manually paint
change first hand. These could be direct cracks or remove unwanted objects on a
challenges such as flooding of stadia, but also painting by matching the same colour of paint
the wider challenges of having to survive in a close to that surrounding the unwanted object
zero-carbon and zero-waste society. in a way that was unnoticed and convincing.
Presently, images are often in digital format
Clubs are also deeply embedded in their and represented in pixels. These pixels are
communities and for supporters mean more to manipulated by filters similar to lnstagram
them than anything else - as illustrated in this filters to fill in unwanted content.
photograph taken at the beginning of a research
project I began in 2019 with West Didsbury and To achieve our objective, we made use of
Chorlton Football Club. Here I am helping the the ancient concept of artists together with
club become the world’s first Carbon Literate machine learning and designed a filter-based
football club, co-creating an environmental application to edit and produce digital images
action plan, and helping understand how clubs with preserved realism. Our method is fast,
can work with their communities to enhance reliable, easy to use and available on desktop
their quality of life and foster low-carbon and mobile devices.
behaviours for the benefit of all.Allie Johns Thomas McGrath
Postgraduate Researcher Postgraduate Researcher
Faculty of Business and Law Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Me, Myself & I Stop and Wonder
Interactive, ‘choose your own’ TV narratives Do you ever stop and wonder? Who used to live
are staking a claim for viewer attention, with there? Who was the last person to light those
2018 seeing the launch of Charlie Brooker’s fires? What objects used to be displayed on that
Bandersnatch on Netflix: a fully branching, mantelpiece?
interactive narrative, the first of its kind on a
global, streaming TV platform. Home can take on many shapes and forms
and even in its derelict state, we can see the
As a media psychologist, my PhD research remnants of a home within this photograph.
seeks to build on a study I conducted for the Sometimes these tangible fragments are
BBC’s Interactive Team in 2015 and published enough to make you stop and wonder.
by the Association of Computing Machinery
(Johns et. al, 2016). I’ll be exploring the extent I study the domestic lives of the former
to which involvement in an interactive narrative residents of Manchester and Liverpool across
drama can have a positive effect on viewers’ the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
self-esteem and self-confidence. Through my research, I am able to slowly
unravel the mysteries of these buildings and
In a recent conversation with a managing trace the stories of the former residents.
director of a leading user experience (UX)
design agency, it emerged there is a trend in
UX for ethical, socially responsible, human-
centred digital experiences, i.e. creating
experiences that have a positive effect on
the user/viewer. My proposed study aims to
contribute to this debate.Sam Meech Xaali O’Reilly Berkeley
Postgraduate Researcher Postgraduate Researcher
Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Science and Engineering
PORTAL – Generative Video Amazonia in the Anthropocene
Feedback Systems
The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the
My research explores the potential, restrictions world. It is also disappearing. Burnt and cleared
and application of analogue video feedback to make way for cattle ranches, plantations,
systems in digital art today. This image comes and human settlements, it is easy to think of
from the first large scale presentation of this impact on the Amazon as being relatively
PORTAL at the University’s Holden Gallery in recent. However, humans have inhabited the
January 2019. Amazon for thousands of years and modified
it accordingly. Even the diminishing areas of
The research draws on the early video art rainforest we consider pristine today, have been
practice of feedback - pointing a camera at touched by human influence at some point.
its own display to loop the video signal - as
a generative mechanism. Combining this I study biodiversity and species interactions
technique with digital tools, the live video feed in the indigenous territory Payamino, Ecuador.
is carefully calibrated and projection mapped. What at first appears as a relatively undisturbed
The resulting works exhibit vivid patterning rainforest is being modified to the extent
and organic behaviour, and function as intuitive that diggers are sent in from town to try to
interfaces for interaction. engineer this Amazonian tributary into flowing
conveniently. In order to protect megadiverse
PORTAL is a circular projection mapped tropical ecosystems in a changing world, we
feedback system generating complex patterns, need to understand species interactions in
digitally coloured and manipulated using the areas that represent what most forests in the
software Isadora. As users enter the space of world will ultimately be: modified.
the camera/projection, they trigger a series of
visual ripples that soon become abstracted,
forming new patterns. Interactions also trigger
layers of sound that reinforce a sense of
entanglement.Jessica Purdy Gabrielle Salomon
Postgraduate Researcher Postgraduate Researcher
Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Business and Law
Dirty Books? Readers’ Marks in
Early Modern Religious Texts
Imbalances of Gender On and Off
What sorts of books did early modern people the Football Pitch
read, and how did they read them? What
did they think of what they read, and what Research has shown that the scales of gender
impact did books have on their everyday lives? equity are not balanced in typically male
These are some of the key questions that my dominated industries, such as football. There
PhD research seeks to answer, through close have been growing concerns over how effective
diversity, equality, and inclusion campaigns
analysis of the surviving marks of readership in
aimed at removing discrimination have been in
early modern books.
the industry. With numerous steps being taken
toward ensuring equitable opportunities for all
This image encapsulates the thoughts of a
(regardless of gender, among other factors),
diligent and educated reader on a religious text,
barriers are still in place for many individuals
noted down in the margins of the volume for looking to progress their careers.
posterity. Through the interplay of the printed
and manuscript words, early modern books are Overcoming the historic participation bans from
brought to life: not only can we see what books 1921 to 1971 has led to a spill over affect for
these people read, we can also glimpse their many in the football workplace trying to break
beliefs, their opinions, their ambitions, and the glass ceiling barrier. These activities have
their enthusiasm for these works. prolonged gender inequity and this research
is set out to explore how cross-nationally
these practices are being handled. As a cross-
national study involves interpreting institutional
processes, in which national cultural
characteristics play a role, a focus on women in
the football workplace is occurring.Hazell Ward Alexandra Watts
Postgraduate Researcher Postgraduate Researcher
Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Science and Engineering
Connecting the Dots
This is the first characterisation of the unique
whale shark (Rhincodon typus) population at St.
Helena Island, where waters drop off quickly
Whodunit: Analysing Text, to 6000 metres, providing productive upwelling
Uncovering Deceit and Solving conditions for the species.
Crimes Against Literature
Whale shark connectivity across the Indo-
A PhD by Practice, looking at the implied
Pacific has been demonstrated genetically, but
contract between readers and writers, and why
movement patterns within the Atlantic Ocean,
authors must demonstrate integrity in their
and between the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic
work if they are to satisfy their readers and
Oceans are less clear.
keep them turning the page.
This male shark was the last one we saw of
This project will create a piece of fiction which
the day; he was one of the largest at ~9m but
will analyse and discuss the relationships
also the most curious and friendly. You can
between author, narrator and reader, within
see a satellite tag attached to him and I had
the confines of a traditional crime novel. It will
just taken a small skin biopsy from him for
highlight all the ways that writers cheat their
my global genetic analysis. My colleague in
audiences, and how the reader experience
the photo is taking an image of his left side,
is affected by these shortcuts. It also aims
just behind the gills, and those spots can be
to show that a writer can demonstrate
used in a NASA derived algorithm to match
authorial integrity whilst creating compelling,
him against over 10,000 other whale sharks on
entertaining and exciting work, which leaves
whaleshark.org.
the reader satisfied, yet still kicking themselves
that they didn’t see the end coming.Darren Wilson Postgraduate Researcher Faculty of Business and Law Rediscovering the Code Garden Web design is a negotiation between a designer’s ideas and what is technically possible. The ‘CSS Zen Garden’ challenged designers to create customised layouts for a web page, only allowing edits to the ’Cascading Style Sheet’ (an idea from print design) that controls the page’s appearance. Bugs caused by differences between popular web browsers added difficulty to the task. From 2003 until 2008, more than 200 web designers contributed designs. This image samples the Zen Garden – finding a robust and relatively easy to code underlying centred column structure in modified website screenshots – alongside the intricate visual layers placed over this skeleton. Comparing ways of viewing these obsolete website designs shows how designers spent hours of individual, unpaid labour pushing available technology to express themselves, build better systems for the future, and claim a place for creativity in computer coding.
Acknowledgements
Many people supported this project and enabled the
second Images of Research competition to take place.
The organisers of the event, Dr Gayle Impey, Dr Megan Webb and Natasha
Howells, wish to extend their particular thanks to the following people listed
in alphabetical order:
Stephanie Barker
Adam Butler
Ade Castronovo
Ian Christon
Dr Justine Daniels
Martin Dexter
Sam Gray
Professor Richard Greene
Nick Holland
Professor Rebecca Lawthom
Gary Lindsay
Chris Snape
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