Winning images paint a picture of research excellence

The night sky in Hawaii, the contents of your kitchen cupboard and a dying bouquet of flowers are all the subjects of photographs highlighted in the University of Leicester’s annual celebration of research through visuals and images.

They are among the winners of the Doctoral College’s Images of Research exhibition on 5 December. The event showcased 46 images taken by researchers and contextualised with a short description on what inspired that image of their research.

The five winning images (that received the six prizes) were:

Well over a hundred members of staff, students and the public visited the exhibition in Queen’s Hall at the University’s Students’ Union, with almost 250 votes being cast at the exhibition, as well as online by distance-learning postgraduate researchers, for the ‘People’s Choice’ image.