Postgraduate Research Photograph Competition 2022 | Brighton Doctoral College Festival

The Doctoral College’s Postgraduate Research Photograph Competition invites doctoral students to submit an image which captures an aspect of their research. All members of the University of Brighton are warmly invited to vote for their favourite entry! Voting runs 01 – 16 June, 15.00hr. 1st prize = £150, runner-up prize = £100. Winners announced at the Festival of Postgraduate Research, 16 June.

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Faded photograph of female abaret dancers — 1. Alan Meggs, The Ghosts of my Life

An open graphic novel positioned as if being read. In the backdrop are red walls featuring cartoon images and a window view onto a street — 2. Alex Fitch, Le Manoir in The Cartoon Museum

Sunset over a lake in a deserted landscape — 3. Angelica Pizzo, Extremadura: Spain’s forgotten region

Open laptop featuring a promotional powerpoint slide on screen — 4. Anjuman Shaheen, A slide presentation to recruit participants for the research “Personal self-awareness and digital games”

Swollen, diseased foot of a black child sitting in a chair on a shiny floor — 5. Badraldeen Ali Bashir Alnoor, A disease of poverty ends child schooling

Photo of a scuffed, tatty plaque reading 'Gentrification in progress. There'll be cupcakes' set against a redbrick backdrop — 6. Bethan Prosser, Gentrification plaque

Five pale, carved female figures displayed in a spacious museum setting — 7. Chara Vlachaki, The Ineffability of the Caryatids

Black and white photo of a woman in a yoga pose, hands raised, hair blowing in the breeze. In the background is a sunlit lake. — 8. Claire Collison, Amina and her yoga pose

Photo of a painted portrait of a young black woman holding a red flower against a backdrop suggesting land and sky — 9. Clive Allanso, Contemporary Art, looking beyond the artefact

Microscopic image of acute myeloid leukaemia cells attached on optimised bone marrow niche — 10. Eleni Ladikou, Bad Blood

A woman sits on a wooden floor, gazing contemplatively at numerous slips of paper laid out before her.. In the background are bookshelves. — 11. Esther Dark, Sitting with

Transcranial magnetic stimulation coil — 12. Gemma Brownbill, Through the TMS coil

Microscopic image of a tumour (green) and immune cells (red) — 13. Gheed Al-Hity, The battle between the immune system and cancer

Two small objects stand on the pages of upright books: an astronaut and a world globe. In the background, a hand bangs a gavel. — 14. Gulnur Erol, The Future Has Arrived: Outer Space Law

Person grinning, wearing green face paint and a headdress of leaves and pink flowers. — 15. Jo Allen, Fairies, Freaks and Festival Folk

A person in wintry clothes stands in a field in a misty, rural landscape. — 16. Joe Jukes, Rural objects (in the field)

Photo of an upturned canoe and boat on a shingle beach. Four Russian dolls stand on the canoe in descending height. On the boat stands one large Russian doll. — 17. Karen Hanrahan, Narrative *navigatio* of former Irish nuns

A photo of a long, grey scaly mammal in tall grass — 18. Lea Stracquadanio, What is this strange creature?

Four young white women in bikinis sit on a floating deck, looking out to sea — 19. Matea Hanzek, Croatian coast, once a scene of conflict, today home to the largest boat charter fleet in the world

Distant views of Brighton on an overcast day taken from a relatively rural vantage point. In the foreground is a field featuring faint trodden paths and dotted with sheep. — 20. Matt C. Smith, Non-binary Brighton

A white sculptural model of a block of tall compacted spikes photographed against a black backdrop — 21. Olivia Louvel-Kendall, VoiceScape 1.0

A black and white microscopic image of a long triangular sheet of clear rippling liquid fragmenting into droplets at the wider edge of the triangle — 22. Zuhaib Nissar, How is a spray formed?

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