{"id":1353,"date":"2020-08-31T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:17","slug":"the-doctoral-academy-images-of-research-life-enhancing-creativity-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/the-doctoral-academy-images-of-research-life-enhancing-creativity-and-design\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doctoral Academy: Images of Research &#8211; &#8216;Life-enhancing creativity and design&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Doctoral Academy\u2019s first Images of Research competition received 25 eligible submissions for consideration by our expert panel. PGRs were asked to portray their <span class=\"markxf5ha66ta\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">research<\/span>\u00a0in a single image along with a 50 word description, providing a great way to showcase public engagement abilities, increase\u00a0<span class=\"markxf5ha66ta\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">research<\/span>\u00a0profiles and get creative all at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Each entrant was asked to choose a research theme category that they feel matches their submission most closely. This year\u2019s categories were based on our four interdisciplinary research themes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understanding and improving health and wellbeing<\/li>\n<li>Life-enhancing creativity and design<\/li>\n<li>Innovating technological solutions to tomorrow\u2019s problems<\/li>\n<li>Promoting social change to enhance diversity, justice and socio-economic prosperity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Doctoral Academy has thoroughly enjoyed exploring the fantastic research being done by their PGRs through the images and short descriptions submitted, and the judges were very impressed with the quality of the entries and the variety of topics. In this blogpost, you&#8217;ll find all the entries submitted under the second theme of <strong>&#8216;<em>Life-enhancing creativity and design&#8217;<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Survival Cloak, Spring 2020 &#8211; Cate Newton, School of Art &amp; Design<\/strong><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1354\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1354\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC001-1021x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC001-1021x1024.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC001-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC001-768x770.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC001-1531x1536.jpg 1531w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC001.jpg 1914w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Description: Survival Cloak, Spring 2020. Wearable tapestry woven from enteral feeding tubes during May 2020. Enteral feeding tubes are used to provide nutrition to looked-after people who, as a result of a medical condition, are unable to swallow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>A River in Paradise &#8211; Allan Davies, School of Art &amp; Design<\/strong><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1355\" style=\"width: 748px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1355\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC002-699x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"1096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC002-699x1024.jpg 699w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC002-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC002-768x1126.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC002-1048x1536.jpg 1048w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC002.jpg 1310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Description: This painting is part of a series that follows the aspect of my research into the interpretation of contemporaneous devotional material. My research is located at the intersection of several disciplines&#8230;.humanities, art history, theology et al. but most importantly in the centrality of my pictorial representations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Classic Embryology &#8211; Guillermo Serrano Najera, School of Life Sciences<\/strong><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1357\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1357\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1357\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC003-965x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC003-965x1024.jpg 965w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC003-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC003-768x815.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC003-1448x1536.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC003.jpg 1661w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Description: Early chick embryos are a flat disk made of thousands of cells that move generating a flow with two vortices. We found that the tissue flows can be decomposed into three orders: the Doric captures the lengthening of the embryo, the Ionic the volutes and the Corinthian noise. Classic embryology.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Legacy &#8211; Li Huang, School of Art &amp; Design<\/strong><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1358\" style=\"width: 748px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1358\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC004-693x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"1105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC004-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC004-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC004-768x1134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC004-1040x1536.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC004.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Description: Legacy. For many, daily life has become more contemplative since lockdown. Upon nightfall, thoughts turn to loved ones. My research investigates concepts of kinship and mortality through the process of painting a self-portrait lapping-over an earlier portrait of my father, invoking elements of Chinese cultural belief on this personal journey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Mother &amp; Child &#8211; Louise Ritchie, School of Art &amp; Design<\/strong><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1359\" style=\"width: 748px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1359 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC005-748x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC005-748x1024.jpg 748w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC005-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC005-768x1051.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC005-1122x1536.jpg 1122w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/LEC005.jpg 1403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Description: Mother &amp; Child expresses the materiality within creative processes inherent in Contemporary Art forms. The physical and non-physical properties of materials reveal a dual nature, demonstrating and signifying complexity. The g-clamp exists to hold materials during making but here, exists as both clamp and object-artefact in itself.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doctoral Academy\u2019s first Images of Research competition received 25 eligible submissions for consideration by our expert panel. PGRs were asked to portray their research\u00a0in a single image along with a 50 word description, providing a great way to showcase public engagement abilities, increase\u00a0research\u00a0profiles and get creative all at the same time. 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