{"id":1372,"date":"2020-09-08T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:17","slug":"the-doctoral-academy-images-of-research-promoting-social-change-to-enhance-diversity-justice-and-socio-economic-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/the-doctoral-academy-images-of-research-promoting-social-change-to-enhance-diversity-justice-and-socio-economic-prosperity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doctoral Academy: Images of Research &#8211; &#8216;Promoting social change to enhance diversity, justice and socio-economic prosperity&#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 fourth theme of <em><strong>&#8216;Promoting social change to enhance diversity, justice and socio-economic prosperity&#8217;.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>SEN school transition &#8211; Hanan Ali, School of Education and Social Work<\/strong><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1373\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1373\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1373 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC001-1024x785.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC001-1024x785.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC001-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC001-768x589.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC001.jpg 1252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Description: School Transition for students with additional support needs is a group trip that requires concerted planning and efforts on all sides. Teachers from different school settings can safely lead this process to its desired destination where students, their parents, and teachers themselves feel stable and enjoy learning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Does History Repeat Itself? &#8211; Hope Roulstone, School of Humanities<\/strong><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1374\" style=\"width: 748px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1374\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC002-739x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"1036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC002-739x1024.jpg 739w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC002-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC002-768x1064.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC002-1109x1536.jpg 1109w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC002.jpg 1386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Description: Since the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the United States has been fixated on what it means to be (or not to be) American. Are the foundational ideas on freedom and identity still being practised in the current Trump Administration? Does history truly repeat itself?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>My Eyes Reflect the Change in Me &#8211; Zo\u00eb Kessler, School of Education and Social Work<\/strong><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1375\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1375\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC003.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1375 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC003-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC003-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC003-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC003-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC003-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/08\/PSC003.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Description: I am collecting the life-histories of children brought up in Latvian orphanages and one of them gave me this picture and quote. \u201cWhen I think of my voice being heard for the very first time my eyes are filled with tears of determination to be heard again and again.&#8221;<\/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. Each entrant was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":1375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-photography","tag-images-of-research"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6423,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/6423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}