Case Study: Research Images As Art
![Research images as art posters Research images as art posters - Large](/creative-services/sites/creative_services/files/styles/super_xl_image/public/4x2a8342_heal.png?itok=__3eS2U_)
Research Images As Art Competition
How ÐÂÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûEducational Media helped research scientists to become artists
Educational Media has collaborated with the ÐÂÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûDoctoral School for nearly 20 years on the Research Images as Art Competition. We reproduce the submitted images as high quality exhibition prints for the annual exhibition in the cloisters. The competition, open to all current graduate students and academic staff across UCL, is for images associated with their research which have aesthetic appeal.
The exhibition is a showcase of the images illustrating the diversity of research throughout UCL. Over the years the popularity of this competition has grown to nearly 400 entries and now only the best 100 images chosen by a six judge panel are formatted and printed. Eight prizes are awarded, first prize, six runners-up and a ‘People’s Choice’ prize.
The images are then added to and are available for the promotion of UCL. They are used extensively by our graphic designers in their projects.
What we did
Large format printing
Image layout
![Research Images as Art Exhibition Research images as art exhibition in Cloisters](/creative-services/sites/creative_services/files/styles/super_xl_image/public/research_image_exhibition.png?itok=mH_yNLXl)
![Research Images as Art Exhibition Close-up of Research images as art exhibition](/creative-services/sites/creative_services/files/styles/super_xl_image/public/researchic_04_2019_crop.png?itok=yfiQ65Mm)
Previous winners and runners-upÌý
![Man in a crowd wearing a newspaper helmet](/creative-services/sites/creative_services/files/styles/medium_image/public/man_in_hat_750x500_0.png?itok=hpk-PWsC)
The Pensive Lion, 2015
![Colourful computer image of heart muscle fibres](/creative-services/sites/creative_services/files/styles/medium_image/public/heart_image_800x500.png?itok=cY6bizj-)
Muscle Fibres of the Heart, 2013
![View of a swirling river](/creative-services/sites/creative_services/files/styles/medium_image/public/river_image_667x500_0.png?itok=WsiNafOH)
Ardara River Swirl,Ìý2017-18
Designs using research images
![Front cover of Research Staff Handbook 2020 Front cover of Research Staff Handbook 2020](/creative-services/sites/creative_services/files/styles/medium_image/public/rs_handbook_cover_800x500.png?itok=INuq4c6O)
![P40 of Research Staff Handbook Page showing text and research images](/creative-services/sites/creative_services/files/styles/medium_image/public/rs_handbook_p40_800x500.png?itok=j9k5AAnU)
![P41 of Research Staff Handbook Page showing text and research image](/creative-services/sites/creative_services/files/styles/medium_image/public/rs_handbook_p41_800x500.png?itok=ia-xbr5-)
Ìý
![Doctoral School folder Shadowy green figure](/creative-services/sites/creative_services/files/styles/medium_image/public/ds_folder_800x500.png?itok=xuMexFBe)
![Handbook page with colourful map](/creative-services/sites/creative_services/files/styles/medium_image/public/ds_handbook_s1_800x500.png?itok=4LFZgEKq)
![Doctoral School Handbook 2020/21 Book cover with white cells](/creative-services/sites/creative_services/files/styles/medium_image/public/ds_handbook_20_21_800x500.png?itok=Ou7f1lIo)
Ìý
![Doctoral School folder Shadowy green figure](/creative-services/sites/creative_services/files/styles/medium_image/public/ds_folder_800x500.png?itok=xuMexFBe)
![Doctoral School Handbook 2020/21 Book cover with white cells](/creative-services/sites/creative_services/files/styles/medium_image/public/ds_handbook_20_21_800x500.png?itok=Ou7f1lIo)
![Handbook page with text and kidney image](/creative-services/sites/creative_services/files/styles/medium_image/public/ds_handbook_kidney_800x500.png?itok=QbU2PBAE)